[Hiring] Academic Associate Vice President, Academic Programs @Southern New Hampshire University

Role Description

The Academic Associate Vice President (AAVP) role at Southern New Hampshire University's (SNHU's) online Global Campus (GC) provides strategic, operational, and cultural leadership for academic programs by ensuring the delivery of high-quality, healthy programs and learning experiences.

• Ensures best-in-class learner-focused support, engaged and effective faculty, and high-functioning teams.
• Serves as an enterprise systems leader connecting people, strategy, and operations across academics and the wider SNHU ecosystem.
• Builds organizational capability by developing leaders, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and leading strategic transformation.
• Operates as an enterprise integrator aligning academic quality, portfolio health, talent capability, learner experience, and organizational effectiveness.
• Provides leadership for multiple academic programs teams and coordinates cross-unit functions and initiatives.
• Focuses on learner persistence toward graduation and efficient use of team resources.
• Manages a team of Academic Deans and Executive Directors for operational efficiency.
• Reports to the Vice President of Academic Programs at Global Campus.

What you'll do:

• Provide strategic and enterprise leadership for assigned academic portfolios.
• Lead the development and execution of portfolio strategy using relevant insights.
• Promote an enterprise and One University mindset.
• Provide enterprise leadership for academic integrity, quality, and governance.
• Advance organizational agility and talent fluidity.
• Lead strategic initiatives and organizational transformation.
• Build leadership and organizational capability.
• Strengthen the flow from data to insight to action.
• Champion operational and process excellence.
• Promote responsible technology and AI enablement.
• Build trusted enterprise partnerships and influence across the organization.
• Create a culture of accountability, learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Steward organizational resources and capacity strategically.
• Anticipate emerging opportunities and challenges affecting Academic Programs.
• Measure and communicate organizational and portfolio performance.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive higher education leadership experience.
• Doctoral degree or equivalent terminal degree.
• Knowledge and experience within online education at large scale.
• Experience with development of policies and standard operating procedures.
• Systems Intelligence: systems thinking, complexity navigation, outcomes-based design.
• Enterprise Leadership: enterprise perspective, strategic prioritization, shared accountability.
• Change Leadership: change strategy & sequencing, stakeholder mobilization, change adoption.
• Strategic Execution: strategy-to-action translation, portfolio/program leadership, execution discipline.
• Data-to-Insight-to-Action: data literacy, sensemaking, evidence-based decisions.
• Organizational & Process Design: process simplification, operating model-design, continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Partnership: influence across departments, build relationships, constructive conflict resolution.
• Digital & AI Fluency: AI opportunity identification, human/technology work redesign, responsible adoption.
• Talent Fluidity & Capability Building: talent/skills assessment, dynamic resource deployment, leader development.

Benefits

• High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance.
• Low to no-cost dental and vision plans.
• 5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays).
• Employer-funded retirement.
• Free tuition program.
• Parental leave.
• Mental health and wellbeing resources.

Compensation

The annual pay range for this position is $141,974.00 - $227,199.00. Actual offer will be based on skills, qualifications, experience, and internal equity.