# Director, Academic Delivery

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,600.00 - $235,100.00
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

The Director, Academic Delivery is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing comprehensive strategies for both instructional delivery and evaluation, ensuring alignment with the university's mission, vision, and accreditation standards.

The Director leads, develops, and supports people leaders and faculty committed to advancing student competency and workforce-relevant skills through personalized instruction and evaluation at scale.

This position requires a data-driven, innovative, and collaborative leader who champions operational excellence, student-centered outcomes, and a culture of continuous improvement.

**Responsibilities:**

- Translate academic strategy into operational execution within your domain/school and across Academic Delivery.

- Lead people managers responsible for instruction or evaluation functions.

- Partner with deans, program leads, and assessment designers to ensure alignment between the master curriculum, teaching and evaluation, through course resources and playbooks, calibration, and performance management.

- Establish and advance clear success metrics for high-quality student service across academic delivery.

- Manage and optimize budgets, staffing models, and workload distribution, including rapid adoption of new technologies.

- Ensure quality, compliance, and innovation across courses and programs.

- Represent your domain/school in university-wide forums on academic delivery, culture, and student outcomes.

**In your first year, success will mean:**

- Deliver measurable student success. Drive gains in WGU's key results. Completion, Return for Graduates, and Equity by aligning instructional and evaluation practices to ensure students are both supported and challenged to demonstrate true competency.

- Build and develop high-performing teams. Hire, coach, and grow exceptional people leaders, faculty, and staff who embody WGU's mission. Create a culture of accountability, belonging, and continuous learning.

- Drive operational excellence at scale. Manage resources wisely. Build systems that enable sustainable growth while improving student experience and reducing unit costs.

- Use data to drive better decisions. Turn insights into action. Rely on data to identify opportunities, remove barriers, and continuously improve instruction, assessment, and learner outcomes.

- Advance innovation in teaching, learning, and evaluation. Partner across the university to pilot and scale new instructional models, evaluation methods, and technologies that enhance student mastery and engagement.

- Champion WGU's mission and culture. Lead with empathy and integrity. Model WGU's values and help create a psychologically safe, inclusive environment where faculty and staff can thrive.

**Requirements:**

- Master's degree required; doctorate preferred.

- 8+ years of progressive leadership.

- Proven track record leading teams with measurable improvement in student or institutional outcomes.

- Demonstrated ability to lead through others, manage budgets, and make data-informed decisions.

- Experience or familiarity with the domain is a plus.

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare.

- Health savings account and flexible spending account.

- Basic and voluntary life insurance.

- Disability coverage.

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages.

- Legal and identity theft coverage.

- Retirement savings plan.

- Wellbeing program.

- Discounted WGU tuition.

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual.

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual.

- 11 paid holidays.

- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

## Skills

### Required
- student-centered leadership
- strategic agility
- operational excellence
- data fluency
- managerial courage
- team development
- change leadership

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