Director of Regulatory Affairs, Academic Affairs Office, Penn Law

Director of Regulatory Affairs, Academic Affairs Office, Penn Law

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Posted Job Title
Director of Regulatory Affairs, Academic Affairs Office, Penn Law

Job Profile Title
Director B

Job Description Summary
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished law schools. The School offers a distinctive cross-disciplinary legal education, drawing on the depth and breadth of the University of Pennsylvania. The resulting intellectual opportunities and professional relationships bridge traditional boundaries and disciplines, making the Law School an extraordinarily supportive academic community for its scholars and students alike.

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School staff play a critical role in providing a world-class educational experience, supporting faculty, students, alumni, and fellow staff members in a collaborative and ambitious environment.

The Law School's Academic Affairs Office collaborates with many other offices at Penn, to foster a student-centered environment in which each learner is inspired to do his or her best work.

The Director of Regulatory Affairs serves as the point person for all regulatory issues related to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School's program of education and ensures compliance, accurate data collection and reporting, and communication of internal and external rules and regulations throughout the Law School. The position reports to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and has responsibilities in the following areas below.

Job Description

Academic Regulations:
•  In coordination and consultation with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, develop, maintain, and communicate a firm understanding of Penn Law's rules and regulations about the academic program, faculty rights and responsibilities, and student rights and responsibilities.
•  In coordination and consultation with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, develop, maintain, and communicate a firm understanding of the relevance of all the regulations of the American Bar Association, Bar Examiners, other accrediting organizations, and other external regulators to Penn's program of legal education across the JD, LLM, LLCM, ML, and SJD programs.
•  Continually assess relevance of regulations the Law School's program of legal education; report on this assessment to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the Deputy Dean and members of the Educational Program Committee, and to the Dean and faculty as appropriate.
•  Develop and implement operational systems that comply with faculty and regulatory requirements.
•  Work with Associate Dean for Academic Affairs to support faculty Educational Programs Committee and ensure implementation of Committee decisions.
•  Ensure that Penn Carey Law's policies and procedures are well-communicated (including via Faculty and Adjunct Faculty Handbooks and Student Policies and Procedures Manual) and updated to comport with faculty decisions on curriculum, credit requirements, and other academic requisites.
•  Collaborate with Student Affairs colleagues to communicate academic protocols to students and consult with them on application of policies to individual student situations as appropriate.
Data Analysis and Reporting:
•  Maintain and interpret statistical data and other information on a host of academic issues. Ensure compliance with FERPA regulations in the management of all data.
•  Develop strategic reports from this data with programmatic recommendations as appropriate.
•  Maintain data on accreditation issues, collaborating with departments throughout Penn Cary Law to collect ABA required and Law School required information.
•  Serve as the main point person on annual collection of academic, curricular, enrollment, and bar passage data required by the ABA. Maintain historical reports on this and other relevant data sets.
•  Collaborate with Business Affairs, Communications, and other departments on all internal and external requests for ABA and other informational data.
•  Ensure compliance with all data requests from accreditors. Manage a host of reports and historical records on data provided to external news and media sources and other organizations.
Registrar's Responsibilities:
•  Participate in the coordination and scheduling of the Law School curriculum and oversee a host of faculty/student curricular issues.
•  Develop expertise in and maximum use of the University's Next Generation Student System (Pennant). Interpret and ensure best communication of procedures to students, faculty around Pennant and other tools, including Canvas.
•  Assist with the scheduling and administration of exams; oversee the proctoring program. Ensure compliance with University regulations about grading systems, including the recording of grades.
•  Work with colleagues to prepare for graduation, including coordination with Student Affairs, to identify students eligible for awards and prizes.
•  Represent Penn Carey Law Registrar as necessary and appropriate in faculty committee meetings and other campus engagements. Liaise with University's Registrar's Office to ensure Law School compliance with University policies and procedures.
Student Support:
•  Collaborate with colleagues to offer thoughtful and comprehensive academic advising support and programming to students.
•  With Student Affairs Colleagues, support administration of Journal writing competition.
•  Ensure excellent communication of policies and procedures throughout the Academic Affairs staff and establish best practices in communicating these to students via drop in sessions, ticketing systems, on-line resources, trainings, etc. Respond to questions and direct students to appropriate resources.
Participate in other special projects as assigned and as needed.

Qualifications: The successful candidate will hold an advanced degree, J.D. or experience in data analysis preferred, and have a minimum of five years of increasing responsibility in administration, accreditation, and/or strategic statistical data management and reporting; or equivalent combination of education and experience. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to design, plan and implement organizational strategies and will have a track record of detail-oriented data management and interpretation skills. The successful candidate will have a history of working effectively with diverse constituencies, including faculty, current students, external agencies, alumni, and colleagues. We seek candidates who have established track records as collaborators in the workplace. Commitment to the University of Pennsylvania Law School Staff Ideals of collaboration is required.

A cover letter is required with application materials.

Job Location - City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Department / School
Law School

Pay Range
$59,703.00 - $95,524.33

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Special Requirements
Background check required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.

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