The Role
Provides strategic academic leadership for a campus, overseeing faculty, curriculum, student success, accreditation, regulatory compliance, academic operations, budgeting, and institutional reporting. Leads retention initiatives, faculty development, program assessment, continuous improvement, and external stakeholder relationships. Manages academic staff performance and professional development while ensuring programs meet institutional, industry, state, and federal standards.
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Overview
Academic Dean
The Academic Dean is responsible for the strategic leadership, administration, and academic integrity of the campus. This role oversees faculty, curriculum development, student success initiatives, accreditation compliance, and overall academic operations. The Academic Dean ensures that academic programs align with institutional goals, accreditation standards, and industry best practices.
In addition to joining an organization with an outstanding mission, Concorde is happy to provide the following Benefits You'll Love -
- Salary: $110,000 - $120,000 per year, depending on experience
- Tuition Waiver: Enjoy a tuition waiver after 6 months of employment for you AND your immediate family offered at UTI and Concorde campuses
- Paid Time Off: Competitive paid time off programs for employees (Vacation, Sick, Flexible)
- Retirement Matching: 50% match on the first 6% of your contributions after 90 days
- Paid Parental Leave: 4 weeks of paid leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents to bond with a new baby
- Competitive Insurance: Health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Pet Insurance: Competitive coverage for your furry family members through ASPCA
- Health Plan Enrollment: Eligibility starts first of the month following completing one full month of employment
- Provide visionary leadership in curriculum development, academic policies, and faculty development
- Ensure academic programs meet accreditation, state, and federal requirements
- Promote excellence in teaching, research, and student learning outcomes
- Collaborate with leadership and program directors to implement new and update existing curriculum based on program objectives, industry trends and student needs
- Implement training programs and workshops of faculty/staff for professional development
- Oversee student advising, retention, and academic support services
- Address academic concerns, grievances, and appeals
- Support initiatives to enhance student engagement, career readiness, and experiential learning
- Develop and maintain learning resources that comply with regulatory standards and meet students needs
- Implement mechanisms to meet and exceed all academic outcomes for students and campus
- Lead the campus student retention efforts and provide support for program directors and faculty with retention activities, strategy, and initiatives
- Contribute to institutional strategic planning and accreditation efforts
- Manage budgetary and financial planning for the academic division
- Foster relationships with external partners, including businesses, advisory boards, community organizations, and accrediting bodies
- Ensure adherence to accreditation and regulatory standards
- Lead program assessment and continuous improvement efforts
- Maintain academic records and oversee institutional reporting requirements
- Establish/maintain a high performance team of professional, motivated and engaged staff utilizing effective training, performance management and career-development activities while leading them to achieve established business results and performance metrics
- Recognizes and rewards employee contributions and achievements
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Experience
- Master's degree in an Academic Area, Education, or closely related field (required) (Candidates without a master's must obtain one within two years of hire)
- Doctorate degree in an Academic Area, Education, or closely related field (preferred)
- Eight (8) years leadership experience in education and four (4) years experience teaching or acting in an administrative role within a post-secondary environment (preferred)
- Prior experience an an Academic Dean (preferred)
Skills
- Proficiency in budget management and strategic planning
- Knowledge of accreditation standards (e.g., ACCSC) and higher education policies
- Proficiency with online education and emerging instructional technologies
- Proficiency leading interdisciplinary initiatives and multiple higher education programs
Abilities
- Ability to collaborate with faculty, staff, and external stakeholders
Work Environment
- This position is designated as onsite
- Travel requirements
- Local (up to 5%)
- Overnight Travel (up to 5%)
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Skills Required
- Master's degree in an academic area, education, or closely related field; candidates without a master's must obtain one within two years of hire.
- Doctorate degree in an academic area, education, or closely related field.
- Eight years of leadership experience in education.
- Four years of experience teaching or working in an administrative role within a post-secondary environment.
- Prior experience as an Academic Dean.
- Proficiency in budget management and strategic planning.
- Knowledge of accreditation standards, such as ACCSC, and higher education policies.
- Proficiency with online education and emerging instructional technologies.
- Proficiency leading interdisciplinary initiatives and multiple higher education programs.
- Ability to collaborate with faculty, staff, and external stakeholders.
- Ability to work onsite.
Concord Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Concord and has not been reviewed or approved by Concord.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Offerings include generous paid time off, company holidays, and additional paid time for volunteering, with some references to year‑end office closure and summer Fridays. These time‑away policies are positioned as a meaningful strength.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with an employer match is highlighted as a solid component of total rewards. The match is viewed as good even if not top‑tier.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is explicitly included in the package. This support complements broader benefits like tuition reimbursement and development opportunities.
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The Company
What We Do
Concord is the independent, worldwide leader in the development, management and acquisition of sound recordings, music publishing, theatrical performance rights and narrative content. Headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne and Miami, Concord also has staff in Auckland, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. The Company’s catalog consists of more than 1 million songs, composed works, plays, musicals and active recordings which are licensed in virtually every country and territory worldwide.
