# Academic Business Leader **Company**: Western Governors University (WGU) **Location**: Salt Lake City, UT **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $116,600.00 - $209,900.00 **Category**: Education **Industry**: Education **Apply**: https://wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Salt-Lake-City-UT/Associate-Dean--Entrepreneurship--School-of-Business_JR-026609?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/academic-business-leader-d16b7186-3fa/ ## Description We are seeking an Academic Business Leader to drive the education and successful outcomes of students in their field. As a subject matter expert and respected academic business leader, you will have end-to-end responsibility for growing programs with new, market-relevant and innovative competency-based program offerings, identifying and supporting the implementation of industry partnerships and go-to-market strategies, and delivering great educational outcomes for students. Responsibilities: - Provides P&L ownership by managing budget and P&L with a focus on achieving university contribution margins and net new student growth. - Launches new and revised programs into the education market and operates programs using data, insights, and experience in program management and program marketing. - Drives a culture of continuous experimentation, measurement, and learning from data to rapidly improve the quality and delivery to students. - Provides strong people-leadership to directly or indirectly lead a diverse team of people, including program managers, instructional faculty, student coaches, and mentors. - Utilizes deep understanding of how students learn and combines with innovative curriculum and student support strategies to drive student success and employability. - Influences others and communicates effectively to improve and promote teamwork, decision-making, and problem-solving. - Works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives and partners to get the work done. - Deals constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes and can decide to act without the total picture. - Maintains responsibility for creating workforce and staffing plans and forms teams with the appropriate diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experiences. - Learns quickly and extracts lessons learned from failures and mistakes. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Customer and student obsession with a focus on driving successful outcomes for them. - Industry or academic leader in the discipline. - Understanding of the industry trends, job opportunities, and educational market trends in the discipline. - Credible voice of the department in external partnerships and presentation opportunities. - Execution focus, with the ability to dive deep and live in the details with a fast-paced weekly execution cadence. - Ability to organize and coordinate activities and results across cross-functional teams. - Ability to coach and develop direct reports. - Ability to collaborate with and manage teams, including those in a remote environment, while demonstrating excellence, integrity, and respect. - Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organization. - Ability to build relationships and influence at all levels, both internally and externally. - Ability to be an agent of change in a rapidly changing environment. - Proven ability to analyze data to identify trends and drive innovation. - Sound judgment and decision-making skills. - Strong oral and written communication skills. Job Qualifications: - Master's Degree in a related field. - 5 years of relevant experience. - 5 years of leadership experience, including hiring, managing, and scaling significant teams. - Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Preferred Qualifications: - PhD in a related field. - Experience in higher education. - Experience in developing online education programs and/or developing and scaling rapidly changing organizations/programs. - Experience in developing curriculum and/or high-stakes assessments. - Demonstrated success in change-management, and bringing order and structure to complex situations. 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. 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