Accreditation, Licensure, and Continuous Improvement Director

• Plans, organizes, and coordinates GSEHD strategic, comprehensive, and ongoing assessment programs, projects, and activities measuring student learning and institutional effectiveness.
• Partners with faculty and staff to develop assessment plans to monitor progress towards learning outcomes and goals.
• Coordinates assessment activities for compliance with accreditation standards (CAEP, CACREP, etc.) related to assessment and institutional effectiveness and assists with other college and/or program specialized accreditations.
• Supports the GSEHD deans with Middle States activities as needed.
• Provides assessment information to the University leadership to assist with institutional decision making in alignment with strategic planning. As directed, disseminates findings to appropriate stakeholders.
• Ensures proper staging and stakeholder access for all annual and ad hoc reports in accordance with university-supported systems.
• Conducts routine needs analyses regarding GSEHD data (collection, sharing, reporting, etc.) policies and provide recommendations to senior leadership on where they can be improved.
• Maintains current knowledge of updates to accreditation policies, practices, and research.
• Maintains master calendar and accreditation action item list to ensure project management that adheres to deadlines and facilitates collaboration and review.
• Supports faculty and staff with the advancement of assessment and improvement of student learning (i.e., APA and APR) through effective outreach efforts including consultation, training, mentoring, and resource development.

• Writes accreditation-related reports and letters in consultation with the faculty (CAEP Annual Report, Self-Study Reports, USNWR, Title II, OSSE, Honey Nashman, etc.).
• Designs, creates, and manages datasets.
• Extracts data from the appropriate accreditation and licensure data management systems.
• Manipulates data by merging, appending and sorting datasets.
• Manages accreditation and assessment systems (Taskstream, SL & L) including ensuring successful transition of systems and integration for systems not connected (Banner and Taskstream).
• With support from faculty and dean leadership, ensures quality, validity, and usability of data.
• Notifies School faculty/staff of inconsistencies in reported data and implements solutions to resolve inconsistencies.
• Collaborates with University's managers, data collection staff, and IT department to ensure data integrity.
• Analyzes data for federal or state reporting requirements.

• Manages request and email communication for program verification and licensure application.
• Liaises with EPP Directors to fulfill verification request
• Serves as proxy signatory for Academic Dean on verification request forms

• Excellent interpretation of statistical data and the applicant of data to improve programs.
• Experience with educational accreditation and assessments.
• Experience with educational licensure.
• Masters in education or related profession is highly desired.
• Strong written, verbal, and listening skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Excellent collaboration and team building skills.
• Ability to work within tight timeframes and meet strict deadlines.
• Effective organizational, planning, and project management skills.
• Information sharing skills, to include presenting to leadership and community audiences, report writing, etc..

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