Chief Academic Officer & VP Global Academic Learning Enterprise

* Own and execute UMGC’s academic product strategy and portfolio, including undergraduate, graduate, credential, and non-degree offerings that prioritize learner outcomes, skills attainment and workforce relevance in alignment with UMGC’s strategic plan and Innovation Forward goals* Lead the Schools as academic product portfolios, ensuring each portfolio has clear academic intent, outcomes, differentiation, and sustainability* Partner with other senior level colleagues to drive key institutional metrics including student success, satisfaction, persistence, retention and graduation* Lead the evolution toward coherent, stackable learning pathways that support lifelong learning* Align academic offerings with labor-market data, employer needs, and industry-validated skills* Establish decision frameworks for program approval, evolution, prioritization, investment, and sunsetting, grounded in academic quality, learner outcomes, workforce relevance, and mission alignment* Hold accountability for academic product health at the portfolio level, partnering with the Center Institutional Effectiveness, Marketing, Learner Lifecycle Success, Global Military Operations, Global Workforce Partnerships, Experience Strategy & Design, Product Management, and Analytics teams to monitor quality, outcomes, relevance, and long-term viability* Establish a curriculum performance framework using analytics and assessment to drive improvement Leadership of Schools* Lead and develop Portfolio VPs/Deans as academic portfolio leaders, accountable for the performance, relevance, and integrity of their respective product portfolios* Ensure clarity of roles, decision rights, and accountability across the academic organization within a matrixed operating model* Enable cross-portfolio alignment while preserving appropriate disciplinary depth, innovation, and differentiation* Foster a culture of evidence-based decision-making, continuous improvement, and shared ownership of learner outcomes* Serve as UMGC’s chief steward of academic quality, rigor, and integrity across all learning models and modalities* Define and govern the University’s academic quality framework, including learning outcomes, assessment expectations, curricular standards, and academic policies* Serve as executive lead for institutional and specialized accreditation, compliance, academic reporting, and regulatory alignment with regional, professional, and governmental bodies* Maintain rigorous compliance with accreditation standards and regulatory requirements, upholding transparency, integrity, and public trust while also appropriately continuing to advocate in the best interest of our learners* Provide executive oversight to ensure positioning of the Registrar as a strategic enabler of learner mobility and progression, ensuring that academic policies, credit practices, and supporting systems minimize friction and accelerate learner advancement* Leads registrar operations that effectively support transfer pathways, prior learning assessments (PLA), stackable credentials, and lifelong learning, while aligning with modern academic models* Establish the vision, expectations, and governance structures that support faculty excellence in a centrally designed, technology-enabled academic environment* Advance faculty development, evaluation, and engagement models aligned to evidence-based teaching, learner success, and modern instructional practices embracing the role of human-centered AI* Champion faculty as essential academic partners responsible for teaching quality, disciplinary expertise, assessment integrity, and learner engagement* Lead a team of subject matter experts including portfolio VPs, portfolio directors and collegiate faculty in defining, teaching and evaluating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions needed to transform learners' lives* Interpret workforce trends, employer expectations, and labor market insights to inform academic priorities, learning outcomes, and credential intent, in partnership with the CLESO and Global Workforce Solutions* Define skills, competencies, and credentials to ensure UMGC offerings remain relevant, credible, and valuable in evolving labor markets* Hold accountability for ensuring UMGC credentials represent clear academic and professional value without prescribing learning experience design or delivery mechanisms* Ensure workforce relevance in partnership with the Global Workforce Solutions team and by engaging employers through advisory boards* Serve as a senior member of the executive leadership team, contributing to institutional strategy, transformation, and long-term sustainability* Collaborate as an equal partner with student-facing leaders to co-own learner success outcomes.* Collaborate closely with Marketing, Experience Strategy, Learning Product Development, Learner Enrollment, Learner Lifecycle Success, Global Workforce Solutions, Institutional Effectiveness, and Technology leaders to support the full learner lifecycle* Represent UMGC as a national leader in next-generation public higher education, contributing to policy, accreditation evolution, and sector-wide innovation**Required education & experience:** A demonstrated track record of achieving results and getting things done; an earned terminal degree (Ph.D., Ed.D., or equivalent) from a regionally accredited institution of higher learning; at least 10 years of senior academic leadership experience; success with national, nontraditional, adult-serving, innovation-oriented organizations delivering through online and hybrid models; demonstrated success in stewarding academic quality, accreditation, faculty leadership, and portfolio-level academic decision-making; data-informed leader comfortable using performance, outcomes, and product management to guide academic strategy; as well as evidence of challenging status quo and expanding beyond typical practices in previous roles.**Preferred experience:** Demonstrated success leading large-scale academic transformation; operating within product-oriented or skills-based and outcomes-driven academic learning models; leadership in AI-enabled learning or academic operations; operating effectively in matrixed organizations with shared accountability; oversight of accreditation, curriculum governance, and registrar functions; and strong fluency in learning outcomes assessment, academic governance, and compliance in online or hybrid environments.The University of Maryland Global Campus Global Campus (UMGC) is committed to creating and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive working environment for people of all abilities. UMGC is dedicated to the principle that no qualified individual with a disability shall, based on disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of the University, or be subjected to discrimination. For information about UMGC’s Reasonable Workplace Accommodation Policy or to request an accommodation, applicants/candidates can contact Employee Accommodations via email at - **Tuition Remission:** Immediate availability for Regular Exempt Staff. Spouses and dependent children are eligible for undergraduate tuition remission after two years of service. **NOTE: For part-time employees (at least 50 percent of the time), tuition remission benefits are prorated.** #J-18808-Ljbffr