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\ \ Great Plains IDEA Exec Dir\ \ Department: 3670055010 Health & Human Sciences Dean\ Job no: 516986\ Employment type: Staff Full Time (Unclassified - Term)\ Location: Manhattan, Kansas\ Worksite: Remote eligible (must reside in US)\ Categories: Executive / Director / Management\ Pay Grade: 11A\ \ \ About This Role:\ The Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (Great Plains IDEA), within the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS), is looking to hire an Executive Director to join their team. This position will be responsible for overseeing the operations and administration of all aspects of the consortium in a manner consistent with the alliance principles of collaboration, shared leadership, and providing high-quality distance education teaching and learning opportunities. The Great Plains IDEA community includes university administration, colleges and academic departments, faculty, professional staff, and students. The Executive Director will maintain working relationships with all these constituents, responding to information requests, providing consultation on alliance policy and procedures, facilitating communication and the open exchange of ideas, as well as decision-making that supports the delivery of alliance academic programs.\ \ The Executive Director must be knowledgeable and able to perform at all levels of the alliance with the ability to anticipate needs, determine work priorities, and monitor progress toward goals. Essential abilities include working in a highly collaborative environment, appreciating diverse points of view, and a proactive approach to management. Areas of responsibility include financial management, day-to-day alliance operations, governance, program assessment and data analysis, and academic program support. This position reports to the HHS Interim Dean.\ \ Additional duties include, but are not limited to:

• Identify and cultivate strategic opportunities for alliance growth to drive business development and expand alliance reach and impact
• Position and promote the alliance as a national leader in collaborative online education and learner access and impact
• Track and report on national policy issues that impact the alliance
• Organize and facilitate communication among and between Cabinet, Human Sciences and Agriculture Boards of Directors, inter-institutional administrative teams, and faculty via conference calls, video conferencing, and face-to-face meetings (e.g., visits to alliance member campuses, Great Plains IDEA Annual Meeting, APLU, etc.)
• Organize and participate in the functional team (graduate deans, registrars, continuing education, disability support services) and department chair calls
• Facilitate special subcommittees of the Cabinet and Boards of Directors to consider policy and special projects or initiatives
• Develop/revise and implement policies, special projects, and initiatives as directed by Cabinet and Boards
• Coordinate consortium marketing activities through design and production of marketing materials, maintenance of consortium website, and support for member institution marketing activities
• Conduct site visits to member campuses to provide orientation to new administrators and faculty, as funding allows
• Identify and seek additional sources of funding to promote the alliance and offer innovative, market-driven education and support to institutions
• Develop annual alliance operating budgets for approval by three consortium governing boards
• Prepare revenue analysis by institution and by program showing the distribution of all consortium tuition received
• Organize annual conference call and prepare consortium data/financial re orts for the Great Plains IDEA chief financial officers to recommend the consortium Common Price
• Direct the collection and analysis of data and prepare reports on demographics, enrollment trends, credit hour generation, and revenue distribution

\ Why Join Us:\ Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance is a consortium of 20 renowned public universities from across the United States, offering online degree and certificate programs in human sciences and agriculture. These transformative academic programs foster an expanded knowledge of skillset in your field of interest, in a flexible online learning environment. The mission of Great Plains IDEA is to serve learners by offering online, flexible, affordable instruction for a virtual community of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Our alliance offers high-quality, academic programs that are greater in reach and significance than any single university could offer alone by sharing resources in efficient ways. Under a contract with Great Plains IDEA, Kansas State University provides management services to the alliance. Additional information can be found at www.gpidea.org.\ \ The College of Health and Human Sciences is home to six academic departments (Applied