Executive Director of Accreditation and Evaluation (HEALTH PROFNS EDUC MGR 2)

The Executive Director of Accreditation and Evaluation provides strategic leadership, oversight, and operational management for the School of Nursing's accreditation, educational effectiveness, assessment, program evaluation, regulatory compliance, and continuous quality improvement (CQI) enterprise. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, the position serves as the School's senior authority on accreditation, educational quality, and evidence-based program evaluation, ensuring compliance with national, state, university, and professional accreditation requirements while advancing a culture of continuous improvement and academic excellence.

The Executive Director leads the development and implementation of an integrated framework for accreditation readiness, educational assessment, outcomes evaluation, and quality improvement across all academic programs. Utilizing advanced program evaluation methodologies and qualitative and quantitative approaches to assessing educational effectiveness, the position oversees the systems, processes, and performance measures used to evaluate program quality, student success, faculty effectiveness, and institutional outcomes.

The Executive Director serves as the School's primary liaison with accrediting and regulatory agencies, including:

• California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN/CABRN)
• Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
• Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs
• Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant

Working collaboratively with School leadership, Program Directors, faculty, staff, campus governance bodies, and institutional partners, the position directs accreditation planning, institutional reporting, curriculum and programmatic change implementation, and educational quality initiatives to ensure ongoing compliance and successful program outcomes.

The Executive Director develops and maintains an integrated framework for accreditation readiness, assessment, outcomes evaluation, and continuous quality improvement across all educational programs. The position collaborates closely with school leadership, program directors, faculty, staff, and institutional partners to ensure ongoing compliance, data-driven decision-making, and educational excellence.

As the School's senior non-executive leader responsible for accreditation and educational effectiveness, the Executive Director plays a critical role in safeguarding accreditation status, advancing educational quality, supporting student success, informing strategic planning, and ensuring the successful implementation, continuation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of existing and future nursing and health professions programs. Through the leadership of subordinate managers and professional staff, the position directly influences institutional reputation, program viability, operational excellence, and the School's long-term strategic growth.

Apply By Date

Sunday, October 25, 2026 by 11:50p PDT; screening and selection can begin any time

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing, education, higher education administration, health professions education, public administration, organizational leadership, public health, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Extensive, progressively responsible leadership experience in higher education administration, accreditation, educational assessment, institutional effectiveness, academic affairs, regulatory compliance, or a related field.
• Significant experience supervising professional staff and/or managers, including responsibility for organizational planning, performance management, workforce development, and resource allocation.
• Demonstrated experience leading successful accreditation, regulatory compliance, or institutional review activities for multiple academic programs or a complex academic enterprise.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and overseeing comprehensive program evaluation, educational assessment, and continuous quality improvement frameworks, including the use of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to evaluate program effectiveness and inform strategic decision making.
• Experience developing and implementing organization-wide systems, policies, and processes supporting accreditation, educational quality, assessment, evaluation, or continuous quality improvement.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving faculty, academic leadership, administrative units, and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and strict regulatory or accreditation deadlines.
• Expert knowledge of higher education administration, health professions education, accreditation, and shared governance. Demonstrated understanding of accreditation standards, regulatory requirements, academic governance processes, curriculum approval pathways, and continuous quality improvement principles within complex academic and health professions education environments.
• Exceptional strategic leadership and organizational management skills. Demonstrated ability to establish organizational vision, develop long-range strategies, lead organizational change, and achieve institutional objectives through subordinate managers and professional staff while effectively managing multiple complex priorities and organizational resources.
• Advanced expertise in educational assessment, program evaluation, data analytics, and evidence-based decision making. Demonstrated ability to design and oversee comprehensive evaluation frameworks; apply qualitative and quantitative methodologies; interpret statistical analyses and educational outcomes data; assess program effectiveness; identify trends, risks, and opportunities; and translate complex findings into strategic recommendations that improve educational quality and organizational performance.
• Exceptional relationship management, collaboration, and influence skills. Demonstrated ability to build productive partnerships and foster consensus among faculty, academic leadership, administrators, accrediting agencies, campus governance bodies, and external stakeholders while successfully navigating complex organizational and shared governance environments.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and executive communication skills. Ability to prepare complex accreditation self-studies, executive reports, policy documents, and institutional communications; present information to diverse audiences; facilitate discussions among senior leaders and faculty; and effectively represent the School with accrediting bodies, university leadership, and external organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead continuous improvement and organizational excellence. Ability to develop sustainable systems, policies, and operational processes that promote educational quality, regulatory compliance, data-informed decision making, accountability, and continuous improvement across a complex portfolio of academic programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctoral degree (PhD, EdD, DNP, DrPH, or equivalent) in nursing, education, health professions education, higher education, public health, organizational leadership, or a related discipline.
• Experience within an academic health center, school of nursing, medical school, or other health professions education environment.
• Experience supporting or overseeing multiple professional health programs with differing accreditation and regulatory requirements. Particularly, experience with one or more of the following accreditation and regulatory agencies: California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN/CABRN), Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (COA), Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA)
• Experience collaborating with shared governance bodies and university academic approval processes, including Academic Senate, Graduate Council, curriculum committees, and related governance entities.
• Experience leading curriculum approval, substantive change, degree proposal, or academic policy development processes.
• Experience using statistical methods, survey design, data visualization, and evaluation software to support educational assessment, accreditation, and institutional decision making.

Key Responsibilities

Accreditation Leadership & Compliance (40%)

• Provides senior leadership and organizational oversight for accreditation and regulatory compliance activities across all academic programs within the School of Nursing.
• Working closely with Program Directors, achieves organizational accreditation, compliance, and quality objectives through the direction and management of subordinate managers, analysts, and professional staff responsible for accreditation operations, reporting, assessment, and regulatory activities.
• Establishes the School's accreditation strategy, priorities, infrastructure, and accountability framework to ensure ongoing compliance and accreditation readiness across multiple accrediting and regulatory bodies.
• Directs the planning and execution of accreditation reviews, self-studies, site visits, annual reporting, substantive change submissions, and regulatory communications.
• Oversees long-range planning of accreditation activities, campus academic and administrative reviews, and the associated readiness plans.
• Monitors evolving accreditation requirements and advises school leadership regarding implications for academic programs, policies, curriculum, and operations.
• Direct all aspects of accreditation site visit preparation and execution, including post-visit response activities and monitoring plans
• Serves as the School's principal liaison with accrediting and regulatory agencies and provides strategic guidance to program leadership to support accreditation success.

Educational Effectiveness, Evaluation & Quality Improvement (30%)

• Provides strategic leadership for the School's educational effectiveness, assessment, evaluation, and continuous quality improvement functions.
• Establishes organizational goals, standards, methodologies, and performance expectations and directs
• subordinate staff in the design, implementation, and maintenance of institution-wide systems for outcomes assessment, program evaluation, performance measurement, and quality improvement.
• Oversees the collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of educational outcomes data and ensures findings are translated into actionable recommendations that improve educational quality, student success, faculty effectiveness, and program performance.
• In partnership with Program Directors, faculty leadership, and School governance committees, facilitates the development, review, approval, and implementation of curriculum revisions, degree requirement changes, academic policies, bylaws, and other programmatic modifications.
• Directs and oversees the implementation of programmatic, curricular, and policy changes necessary to
• maintain academic quality, accreditation compliance, and program effectiveness.
• Collaborates with campus governance and oversight bodies, including the Academic Senate, Graduate Council, Office of Academic Programs, and other institutional stakeholders, to advance approvals and ensure compliance with university policies and academic regulations.
• Directs continuous quality improvement initiatives and promotes a culture of evidence-based decision making and accountability across all academic programs.

Strategic Advising & Academic Planning (20%)

• Serves as a strategic advisor to the Dean, Associate Deans, Program Directors, and other academic leaders on matters related to accreditation, educational quality, institutional effectiveness, and regulatory compliance. Collaborates with leadership to align accreditation, evaluation, and quality improvement activities with the School's strategic priorities and long-range goals.
• Leads organizational risk assessments and accreditation readiness planning efforts and identifies emerging issues that may impact accreditation status, educational quality, or program viability.
• Provides expert consultation regarding new program development, program expansion, substantive changes, curriculum initiatives, and academic innovation.
• Supports leadership in translating accreditation findings, evaluation outcomes, and performance data into strategic priorities, operational improvements, and sustainable growth strategies.

Unit Leadership & Administration (10%)

• Directs the operations, personnel, and resources of the Accreditation and Evaluation Unit through subordinate managers and professional staff.
• Establishes departmental goals, priorities, staffing plans, performance expectations, and resource allocation strategies to ensure achievement of organizational objectives.
• Oversees workforce planning, recruitment, employee development, succession planning, budget administration, and operational effectiveness.
• Develops a high-performing team culture focused on collaboration, accountability, customer service, continuous improvement, and excellence.
• Represents the School on institutional committees, systemwide initiatives, accreditation networks, and professional organizations and serves as the senior administrative leader responsible for accreditation and evaluation operations.

Department Overview

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis advances health and ignites leadership through innovative and interprofessional education, transformative research and bold system change. Leaders at the School of Nursing steadily chart a course of developing education curricula, approaches and programs aimed at keeping pace with the rapidly evolving health-care environment and preparing a new breed of health leaders who are skilled and nimble agents of change.

Position Information

• Complete Salary Grade Range: $114,700.00 - $236,700.00
• Salary Frequency: Annual, paid monthly
• Salary Grade: Grade 26
• UC Job Title: HEALTH PROFNS EDUC MGR 2
• UC Job Code: 006560
• Number of Positions: 1
• Appointment Type: Staff: Career
• Percentage of Time: 100
• Shift (Work Schedule): Day
• Location: Betty Irene Moore Hall (HSP029)
• Union Representation: 99 - Non-Represented (PPSM)
• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• This position is hybrid (mix of on-site and remote work)

Benefits

Outstanding benefits and perks are among the many rewards of working for the University of California. UC Davis offers a full range of benefits, resources and programs to help you bring your best self to work, as well as to help you and your family achieve your health, wellness, financial and career goals. Learn more about the benefits below and eligibility by visiting UCnet Benefits Page or Benefits Summary for UC Davis Health Employees or Benefits Summary for UC Davis Employees.

• High quality and low-cost medical plans to choose from to fit your family's needs
• UC pays for dental and vision coverage for you and your family
• Retirement plans for eligible employees including Pension and other Retirement Saving Plans
• Supplemental insurance offered including additional life, short/long term disability, pet insurance, legal coverage, accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity
• Pregnancy and Parental Leave, Family & Medical Leave, Adoption Assistance and Pay for Family Care and Bonding for eligible employees
• Lactation Support Program and Family Care discounts and resources
• Employee Well-being resources and programming to support thriving in all aspects of employee's lives
• On-site Employee Assistance Program including access to free mental health services
• Generous amount of paid Holidays annually as outlined in the UC Policies or Collective Bargaining Agreements
• Paid Time Off/Vacation/Sick Time as outlined in the UC Policies or Collective Bargaining Agreements
• Continuing Education (CE) allowance and Staff Education Reimbursement Program for eligible employees
• Access to free professional development courses and learning opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer and Student Loan Debt Counseling Program for eligible employees

Physical Demands

• Standing - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Walking - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Sitting - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Lifting/Carrying 0-25 Lbs - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Pushing/Pulling 0-25 Lbs - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Bending/Stooping - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Squatting/Kneeling - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Twisting - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Reaching overhead - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Keyboard use/repetitive motion - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours

Mental Demands

• Sustained attention and concentration - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Complex problem solving/reasoning - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Ability to organize & prioritize - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Communication skills - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Numerical skills - Occasional Up to 3 Hours
• Constant Interaction - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Customer/Patient Contact - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours
• Multiple Concurrent Tasks - Frequent 3 to 6 Hours

Work Environment

UC Davis is a smoke and tobacco free campus effective January 1, 2014. Smoking, the use of smokeless tobacco products, and the use of unregulated nicotine products (e-cigarettes) will be strictly prohibited on any UC Davis owned or leased property, indoors and outdoors, including parking lots and residential space.

Ability to work onsite and remotely as needed

Special Requirements

• This is a critical position, as defined by UC Policy and local procedures, and as such, employment is contingent upon clearing a criminal background check(s) and may include drug screening, medical evaluation clearance and functional capacity assessment
• This position is designated as a mandated reporter under CANRA and UC policy, and employment is contingent on compliance with applicable policies, procedures and training requirements

Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

A Culture of Opportunity and Belonging

At UC Davis, we're committed to solving life's most urgent challenges and building a healthier, more resilient world. We believe in growing through every challenge, continually striving to improve, and welcoming new perspectives that strengthen our community. We recognize that a vibrant and innovative organization values both individual strengths and shared purpose. The best ideas often emerge when people with different experiences come together.

As you consider joining UC Davis, we invite you to explore our Principles of Community, our Clinical Strategic Plan and strategic vision for research and education. We believe you belong here. The University of California, Davis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

To view the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination

Because we want you to feel seen and valued, our recruitment process at UC Davis supports openness and authenticity. Research shows that some individuals hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. You may be an excellent fit for this role-or the next one. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every listed requirement. #YouBelongHere

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