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Dean of the School of Nursing

Employer
Belhaven University
Location
Jackson, Mississippi
Salary
Competitive Salary
Date posted
Sep 26, 2022

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Belhaven University invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the Dean of the School of Nursing.

 

As a highly ranked university that stands among select Christian colleges and universities with national influence—we are seeking a visionary, entrepreneurial, and academically strong Christian nurse leader. The successful candidate will assume leadership of a nursing program that is poised for growth in our traditional and online programs, having four full time professors (three of which are tenured) as well as six clinical instructors and two adjuncts, a new ten year accreditation by CCNE, and university leadership that is highly supportive and skilled at responding quickly to new opportunities and initiatives.

 

The chosen nursing leader will advance Belhaven’s mission to prepare students academically and spiritually to serve Christ Jesus in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

 

Reporting to the Provost, the future Dean of Nursing will:

 

  • Provide overall administration and leadership for the School of Nursing and its traditional and online (RN to BSN) programs.
  • Lead the School of Nursing in recruitment efforts.
  • Assess and implement opportunities for growth through new high impact programs on the traditional and/or online platforms.
  • Develop strong clinical partnerships with local health care organizations.
  • Develop strong academic partnerships including articulation agreements with community colleges.
  • Plan and execute the budget for the School of Nursing, assuring that funds are requested for all necessary programs for the school. Assures that operations are executed within allocated funding.
  • Teach 1-2 classes in nursing per year as needed to implement the nursing curriculum.
  • Serve as a role model for faculty, staff and students in professionalism. 

 

THE RIGHT FIT

 

Candidates must have a calling to Christian higher education and the mission of Belhaven University. They should be mature in their evangelical faith, have a well-developed understanding of the field of nursing from a Christian worldview perspective, and be balanced in their personal life.

 

Our accrediting bodies require the following qualifications:

 

  • Experience in traditional and online nursing education including evidence of continuing competence in teaching, scholarship, service, and clinical practice.
  • Doctoral degree in nursing; or a graduate degree in nursing and a doctoral degree from a regionally accredited institution.
  • Leadership, management, and/or administrative experience in the discipline of nursing.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a registered nursing education program to include teaching, curriculum development and program evaluation.
  • Minimum of two years of clinical experience.
  • Unencumbered current license to practice in Mississippi or hold a multistate license from another NLC state.

 

Those who might be God’s choice for this position have the following qualities:

 

  • Your life will reflect an ever-deepening faith as a disciple of Christ Jesus. You will have high levels of emotional intelligence and God-honoring grace. Those who fit best with our team are kind, caring, humble, knowledgeable, empathic, confident, mature, transparent, energetic, and have a balanced work ethic.
  • You will have significant experience with and appreciation for the distinctive strengths of a baccalaureate nursing education.
  • You will love and relate well to students who come from many different family, educational, geographical and economic backgrounds.
  • You will be wise in balancing accountability, flexibility, and grace with students and faculty because you understand your role in stewarding a department that will produce caring and competent nurses who are prepared for clinical practice or graduate education.
  • You will have gifts in building strong collaborative relationships with faculty colleagues within the university, with professional colleagues across the state, and with clinical and academic leaders.
  • You will have a keen understanding of the current trends and opportunities in nursing education that are a good fit with Belhaven’s mission and have the vision, organizational savvy, and perseverance to make them a reality.

GET TO KNOW US

 

Belhaven University is a grace-centered Christian University with a heart of Southern hospitality.

 

We are one of America’s most innovative private schools. We have broken free from the slow-paced and tradition-anchored barriers of higher education and are energized by innovation, creative solutions, entrepreneurial operations, and speed in implementing change.

 

• We are an enthusiastically Christian university that teaches from a Reformed perspective but includes faculty and staff from a variety of denominations who are committed to orthodox Christianity.

 

• We are one of only 36 universities nationally accredited in all four major Arts – music, theatre, visual art, and dance. In addition, our Creative Writing department is widely known because of the success of alum Angie Thomas, author of The Hate You Give.

 

• Belhaven University is well known and highly regarded across the state of Mississippi. Because of our stature, we easily have access to any level of business, media, medical, or government leadership in the state.

 

• Our campus is a charming place to come to work, filled with kind and gracious faculty and staff who embrace the University's family atmosphere. The University is located in a historic neighborhood, near the heart of the capital city.

 

• While it is common for private Christian universities to offer the children of their faculty, staff, and administrators tuition remission for undergraduate degrees, Belhaven goes one step further, including tuition for spouses and traditional-age student campus housing. Employees are also eligible for master’s degree tuition remission. It is also possible for children of the employee to apply for the undergraduate tuition remission benefit at several hundred tuition-exchange partner institutions.

 

INTEREST OR REFERRALS?

 

If God might be leading you to explore this position or suggest a candidate who would be the right fit, please make contact in a way that is best for you. A resume would be helpful, but this discussion can start with an inquiry, and we will go from there. Eventually, serious candidates will submit a detailed resume and respond to an in-depth set of questions that will help us to get to know you. Trusting for God’s timing, we hope to fill this position in preparation for a June 1, 2023 start.

 

An expanded prospectus for this position is available at: https://www.belhaven.edu/belhaven/employment.htm. For confidential discussions, interest, and/or referrals, contact our retained search firm at: Mabry Smith III, Founder and President of Leadership Legacy Partners

Email: Mabry@LeadershipLegacyPartners.com; 205-825-8771 (office), or 205-910-8999 (cell). www.LeadershipLegacyPartners.com

 

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