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The Academic Portfolio Products oversees the university's academic portfolio product offerings, with a primary focus on creating and implementing best practices, standards, and strategies for a unified approach to the University's Academic Portfolio. This role is dedicated to collaborating across multiple organizations to design and execute standardized best practices that not only enhance market-aligned program offerings across the university but also significantly improve student return on intended outcomes. The role also drives innovation in academic investments and resource allocation and is instrumental in developing and applying standardized approaches that enhance consistency and quality across all academic offerings.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Develops and executes a comprehensive strategy for standardizing academic portfolio management practices across the university, fostering a unified approach to the health and maintenance of the Academic Portfolio. Collaborates with stakeholders from various schools to ensure the strategy aligns with diverse needs and goals. Creates and maintains a review process for implementing best practices and standards. * Conducts product research and collaborates with Portfolio Strategy and Institutional Research teams to develop and execute change management practices that improve unified portfolio prioritization, portfolio maintenance, and process enhancement across WGU. * Provides thought leadership and recommends innovations in learning products, learning design, and delivery based on data analysis and learning science. Partners cross-functionally for the timely execution of new products, processes, and procedures that support the growth of the school * Collaborates with external and internal stakeholders across organizations to design and execute program offerings that enhance intended outcomes and are workforce and skill-aligned. Creates research-based benchmarks aligned with industry and workforce needs in academic product management. * Develops a set of university-wide standards for academic product development, maintenance, and assessment. Establishes and maintains a centralized repository of best practices, standards, and strategies to ensure consistency in approach across all schools and departments. * Builds relationships with key stakeholders across all schools and departments to promote and implement unified strategies and best practices. Facilitates cross-functional collaboration to ensure buy-in and adoption of new standards. Develops and implements change management strategies to support the transition to centralized practices * Designs and delivers training programs on best practices for active portfolio maintenance and standards for faculty, staff, and administrators. Provides ongoing... For full info follow application link.

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