Asst. Professor - Nursing jobs in Kansas City, KS

Administrative Duties – 50% (Essential)   

• Plan and conduct school business, including faculty appointments, promotion, contract renewal, tenure, salary increases, and dismissals.  Provide leadership in the development of school curriculum. Develop schedules. Assign faculty and staff workloads and assignments. Facilitate school meetings.  Oversee the school’s assessment efforts and review, and long‐range planning.  Coordinate accreditation and/or approval activities.  Assign special projects as needed to ensure the school’s mission and goals are achieved.  
• Promote and provide leadership in mentoring and development of faculty, including completion of Annual Performance Appraisals, and student recruitment and retention.  
• Promote and enhance the image of the school  
• Supervise administrative staff, including completion of Performance Reviews, in accordance with university, college, and school policies and procedures.  
• Manage the school budgets and expenditures, including General Use, Foundation, or other funds used for Other Operating Expenditures (OOE), scholarships, and other special uses (e.g. grants and travel).  
• Promote and provide leadership in community/university relations.   Work with PSU Foundation and participate in planned giving and fundraising activities as well as the solicitation of gifts.  
• Act as a liaison between faculty in the school and upper‐level administrators.  
• Oversee the physical spaces used by the school and work with physical plant to meet facility program needs. 
• Promote a collegial school atmosphere.  Respond to concerns of staff, faculty, students, and other stakeholders (parents & alumni).  
• Perform other duties as assigned.  

Teaching – 25% (Essential)

• Engage in academic program planning and development, instruction, evaluation, and student academic   advisement. The appropriate teaching load is determined in consultation with the Dean.    

Service – 15% (Essential)  

• Engage in institutional, professional and community service activities.  Individual service plans are established each year through the Unclassified Performance Management Process. 

Scholarly Activity – 10% (Essential)  

• Engage in research, scholarship, or creative endeavor.  Individualized plans for scholarly activity are established each year through the Unclassified Performance Management Process.