Closing date: January 2, 2026

Title: Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs

Employee Type: Faculty

Department: LSUNO A/H-Administration

Campus Location: ALLIED HEALTH - ADMINISTRATION

Job Summary/Basic Functions

The Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs provides strategic leadership, oversight, and coordination of clinical education, clinical partnerships, continuing professional education, clinically based community engagement, and clinical enterprise development across the School of Allied Health Professions. The Assistant Dean works collaboratively with program directors, faculty, healthcare organizations, community partners, and university leadership to ensure high-quality clinical learning experiences, regulatory compliance, accreditation success, workforce responsiveness, and strategic growth of the School's clinical mission.

The Assistant Dean serves as the School's senior administrative leader for clinical affiliations, clinical placement capacity, preceptor development, clinical quality improvement, clinical outcomes assessment, workforce development initiatives, continuing education programs, and clinical community partnerships. The position promotes innovation in clinical education, supports interprofessional practice initiatives, and advances the School's mission through strategic partnerships and community engagement.

The Assistant Dean provides strategic direction, policy guidance, performance oversight, and quality monitoring for School-affiliated clinical operations. The position does not assume responsibility for the day-to-day management of clinic operations, patient scheduling, staffing, billing, patient flow, supply management, facilities management, or other routine operational functions, which remain under the direction of the Clinic Operations Manager and other designated operational personnel.

The Assistant Dean will provide approximately 40-50% effort within the Dean's office and will continue as a faculty member in his/her primary academic department (50-60%) with responsibility for teaching and course instruction, as well as departmental, school, and university committee service.

Minimum Qualifications

Required Education: Master's

Required Field of Study: Terminal degree in a health profession or related discipline.

Number of years required to perform the job: 5

Type of experience required to perform the job: Terminal degree in a health profession or related discipline.
Eligible for appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor.
Minimum five years of progressive clinical leadership experience.

Additional Information About Our School/Department

Established in 1970, by the Board of Supervisors, the School of Allied Health Professions comprises both undergraduate and graduate programs. Baccalaureate degrees (Bachelor of Science) are offered in Cardiopulmonary Science and Medical Laboratory Science. The Department of Communication Disorders offers a Master of Communication Disorders degree in Speech and Language Pathology and a Doctor of Audiology (AuD) in hearing. The Department of Occupational Therapy offers the Master of Occupational Therapy Degree, the Department of Physical Therapy offers a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree, and the Department of Counseling offers the Master of Health Sciences degree. The SAHP also includes the Human Development Center, which provides programs to increase the capacity of healthcare providers for individuals with developmental and acquired disabilities. The SAHP provides multidisciplinary outpatient services to achieve diversity of patient objectives that include diagnostic, therapeutic, and restorative services to enable patients to achieve as much functional, social, and occupational independence as is reasonably possible. The School of Allied Health Professions is committed to providing quality education, leadership, research, and public service through direct patient care and community outreach by clinical healthcare professionals.

Comprehensive benefits are available to eligible employees and their dependents including health, life, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; generous annual and sick leave; 14 paid holidays per year; and an employee health primary care clinic. See following link for more details on our benefits offerings: LSUHSC, New Orleans - Benefits

Other employee benefits include a full-service credit union, wellness benefits featuring complimentary fitness center membership for employees and their spouses, employee assistance program, campus assistance program, and pet insurance option. More information about these benefits can be found on this webpage: Additional Benefits