Salary: $90,000.00 - $95,000.00 Annually
Location : Shreveport, LA
Job Type: Unclassified
Job Number: 999612
Department: Northwestern State University
Opening Date: 06/12/2025

Northwestern State University College of Nursing and School of Allied Health seeks a Doctor of Nursing Practice Director in Shreveport or Off-Campus Instructional site in Louisiana. The review of applications will begin immediately, and the position will remain open until filled. Only complete applications will be reviewed.

To Apply:

Submit
1} a letter of application,
2) an updated CV,
3) official transcripts (if not from NSU},
4) a list of three professional references with complete contact information to:

Dr. Anna Morris
Department Head and Senior Director, College of Nursing
Northwestern State University
1800 Line Avenue
Shreveport, LA, 71101-3127[email protected]

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Applicants must be nursing research or nursing practice doctorate prepared and hold an unencumbered Louisiana license as a registered nurse. Applicants must also have significant administrative/leadership experience in higher education and in developing and/or coordinating DNP curricula/programs. Must have experience in building practice education partnerships and demonstrate strong interpersonal/oral written communication skills. Teaching experience at the doctoral nursing level is preferred. Applicants must show evidence of ongoing scholarly activity, adeptness at online educational technology, and be eligible to serve as a full member of Northwestern State University's Graduate Faculty. The doctoral studies director will report directly to the College of Nursing's Senior Director of Nursing and indirectly to the College of Nursing's Dean.

Job Specification
• Be responsible for all aspects of the DNP program, including, but not limited to supervising and evaluating program faculty/staff, leading continuous quality improvement efforts, maintaining accreditation requirements, and developing/updating curricula and or new concentrations.
• Exploring and leading appropriate workforce-need-driven program expansion efforts that will add to the imminence of the college and university.
• Creating vibrant, inclusive, creative, rigorous, active-learning experiences for all students who choose NSU's DNP program.
• Ensuring sufficient numbers of qualified doctoral faculty to lead quality programs.
• Creating a passionate, respectful, transparent workplace environment for all program faculty and staff.
• Be committed to excellence in teaching, service, professional growth, scholarship and professional service.
• Maintaining required office hours and excellent attendance, while teaching online and face to face course in doctoral nursing
• Representing the College of Nursing and the University in a professional manner and role modeling professional behaviors expected of all DNP faculty.
• Supervising and evaluates student learning experiences.
• Creatively recruiting students for all concentrations within the DNP Program.
• Performing any other duties as assigned by the Senior Director, Dean, or University Administration.

Job Duties and Other Information

Reports to: Senior Director for the College of Nursing and Dean of the College of Nursing and School of Allied Health
Duties and responsibilities: Serves as faculty and administrator responsible for the Doctor of Nursing Practice Programs in the College of Nursing.
Description (% Effort): 12-month tenure-track appointment
Administrative Duties (30%)
• Responsible for all aspects of the DNP program, including, but not limited to supervising faculty, leading continuous quality improvement efforts, maintaining accreditation requirements, and developing/updating curricula and or new concentrations.
• Serves as a liaison between the College of Nursing and other University departments as well as local, state, and national agencies and professional organizations.
• Ensures program is compliant with guidelines/regulations of the University, regional accreditation (SACSCOC) standards, national accreditation (GOA and CCNE) standards, and state regulatory agencies (LSBN), and/or other agencies as required.
• Explores and leads appropriate workforce-need-driven program expansion efforts that will add to the imminence of the college and university.
• Provides visionary leadership to shape the strategic direction of the DNP program, ensuring alignment with the College of Nursing's vision, mission, goals, and strategic plan.
• Ensures program tuition/fees/budgetary decisions are made in a timely manner that is beneficial to all stakeholders.
• Creates vibrant, inclusive, creative, rigorous, active-learning experiences for all students who choose NSU's DNP program.
• Works with the Senior Director of Nursing and the CONSAH Dean to develop program support funding.
• Collaborates with nursing faculty to review and revise curricula and programs to ensure that offerings are relevant, rigorous, and meet the needs of the healthcare community.
• Ensures sufficient numbers of qualified doctoral faculty to lead quality programs.
• Evaluates all program faculty and staff in accordance with NSU's faculty evaluation policies and established faculty outcomes.
• Role-models the professional behaviors expected of all DNP faculty.
• Creates semester schedules and directing faculty workload assignments that are equitable and in accord with the College of Nursing's workload policy.
• Creates a passionate, respectful, transparent workplace environment for all program faculty and staff.
• Leads concentration coordinators in program development, recruitment, and retention activities
• Encourages and supports scholarship and innovation in program faculty.
Teaching Duties (20%):
• Teaches an equitable didactic and/or clinical class load in accordance with the College of Nursing's workload policy.
• Maintains expertise in areas of teaching responsibility.
• Utilizes a variety of teaching strategies appropriate to the domain of learning.
• Maintains required office hours and attendance.
• Supervises and evaluates student learning experiences.
Scholarly Activities and Professional Development (20%):
• Actively participates in University and college of nursing committees, including acting as chair of the DNP Program Curriculum Committee (DN P PCC)
• Actively participates in scholarly activities and other creative activities, such as, scholarly research; writing books, book chapters, and/or articles; practice; podium or poster presentations.
• Maintains appropriate expertise and competencies through continuing professional education and development, as well as through the pursuit of scholarly activities.
• Participates in relevant state and national professional development activities to stay abreast of requirements and up-to-date knowledge required from DNP graduates.
Student Engagement: Advising and Recruiting (15%):
• Creatively recruits students for all concentrations within the DNP Program.
• Ensures the program provides quality advising and instruction in online, distance, and face-to-face settings.
• Advises applicants interested in the DNP program and advises currently enrolled students.
• Works with the alumni office to develop a doctorate graduate alumni base.
Service (10%):
• Attends College of Nursing and/or University functions and committee meetings as assigned.
• Representing the CON to internal and external stakeholders at college, university, state, regional and national events.
• Represents the College of Nursing and University in a professional manner.
• Participates in activities that promote the College of Nursing, including those that may occur in the evenings, out of town and on the weekend.
Other (5%):
Responsible for maintenance of records and files pertinent to the College of Nursing.
• Maintains confidentiality in accordance with federal laws and program policy.
• Performs any other duties as assigned by the Senior Director, Dean, or University Administration.
Benefits for unclassified employees are determined by the individual hiring authority.