Senior Manager, Program Mentoring Faculty

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:  Grade: Management_Executive 606Pay Range: $85,100.00 - $140,500.00Job DescriptionThe Senior Manager, Program Mentoring Faculty demonstrates WGU’s student-centric culture and leads a team of managers to support university, school, and program strategic initiatives. The Senior Manager, Program Mentoring Faculty communicates clear performance expectations and supports managers in program level performance consistent with university key performance indicators, demonstration of leadership principles, and holding faculty and managers accountable in student support expectations.The Senior Manager, Program Mentoring Faculty understands and is committed to WGU’s mission and strategic vision. They can communicate this commitment effectively and consistently and work to ensure both student and employee success. They provide supervision, direction, and lead a team of program mentor managers and are responsible for the professional development and performance of their manager team. The Senior Manager, Program Mentoring Faculty works closely with program level leaders and members of the WGU management team to understand and inform university policies and procedures. They identify the need for and may contribute to the development of program and faculty training, collaborating with others to achieve efficiency while ensuring quality and consistency. Please submit a cover letter along with your application.Essential Functions and Responsibilities:Leads improvement initiatives within program teams to support the university’s key performance indicator goals.Provides supervision, direction, and leadership for a team of program managers (direct reports), each of whom is responsible for the performance, training, and development of a team of program mentors.Collaborates with multiple shared service teams and other WGU department leaders to provide students with a personal, flexible, and affordable education experience.Uses university platforms to pull qualitative and quantitative data regarding student experiences within programs of responsibility. Uses that data to implement improvements in mentoring approaches within the programs.Uses student and staff input to inform the WGU decision-making process, particularly regarding WGU mentoring strategies and services.Works with program level leaders to develop and implement effective communication strategies to positively impact student progress, retention, satisfaction, and graduation.Collaborates with leaders to make hiring and promotion decisions.Supports the execution of strategic plans, analyzes results for future direction.Takes ownership of assigned initiatives and applies strong leadership skills to build a high-performing, cross-functional team environment.Develops strategic and effective working relationships with key WGU stakeholders.Leads ongoing team- and discipline-specific training in a distributed (in-office & remote employees) environment.Performs other related duties as assigned.Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:Ability to lead a diverse team of managers, provide professional development, and be open to feedback from their team and colleagues. Must be able to motivate and encourage others while demonstrating how their work contributes to student and program success.Must have strong technology skills, including: data entry, Outlook email and calendar, MS Office, database, or equivalent experience is required.Demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and promotes activities for leaders and individual contributors to grow in the area of DE&I.Ability to pull data from university platforms, understand implications, and recommend a course of action. Uses data to drive decisions.Strong verbal skills, with ability to present information clearly, concisely, and accurately; friendly, persuasive speaking style.Remarkable organizational talent is requisite.Competencies:Organizational Impact:Leads a team of managers focusing on executing the strategic initiatives and operational plans for the program(s) of responsibility with measurable contribution to the achievement of key performance indicators.Delegates work and holds team managers accountable for performance expectationsProblem Solving and Decision Making:Responsible for identifying needs and making recommendations for process or systems improvements to improve staff efficiency and improve student success.Can work with managers and program level leaders to solve many student escalationsAssignments received and problems faced are sometimes broad and undefined, and will require use of analytical concepts, investigation, use of data to identify source and drive decision-making.Communication and Influence:Must demonstrate excellent communication skills ac