Westcliff International School

Program Manager

• Advance institutional research capacity by increasing faculty and doctoral student scholarly productivity and engagement
• Ensure the quality and integrity of research and scholarship through promotion of ethical standards and methodological rigor
• Support continuous improvement in faculty scholarship by guiding research design, methodology, and publication strategy
• Increase publication-ready manuscripts through structured support from conceptualization to submission
• Strengthen research literacy and information fluency through collaboration with library and research support services
• Design, implement, and assess research workshops and professional development aligned with institutional learning and research outcomes
• Identify and integrate emerging research trends, best practices, and external expectations into faculty research initiatives
• Promote interdisciplinary and faculty–student collaborative research that aligns with institutional mission and strategic priorities
• Develop and sustain research teams and communities of practice that demonstrate measurable scholarly outcomes
• Collect, analyze, and report evidence of research engagement, productivity, and impact to support accreditation, assessment, and institutional effectiveness
• Participate on university committees and/or external advisory boards and committees as needed
• Oversee faculty research programs (Faculty Fellows) and initiatives at the university level
• Provide strategic leadership for the journal’s vision, scope, and editorial board and direction
• Establish and uphold editorial policies, ethics, and peer-review integrity
• Oversee manuscript submission, review, and publication; make final editorial decisions
• Recruit, mentor, and manage associate editors, editorial board members, and reviewers
• Ensure timely, fair, and rigorous peer review and issue planning
• Collaborate with library and research leadership on indexing, discoverability, and archiving
• Mentor authors—especially faculty and doctoral students—on scholarly writing and publication readiness
• Monitor journal quality, impact, diversity, and continuous improvement, including alignment with Scopus standards
• Manage multi-round peer review through hands-on coordination and continuous communication with authors and reviewers
• Oversee detailed editing, proofreading, and end-to-end journal production and publishing, including posting issues to the journal website

Research Program Manager, WIJAR Editor

Content Writer

• Overseeing the daily operations, quality assurance, and professional development of the Doctoral Writing Center team
• Directly supervising Doctoral Writing Center Specialists
• Ensuring the delivery of high-quality, timely, and rigorous dissertation-level writing and research support to doctoral students across all programs
• Overseeing Formatting Committee review workflows for dissertation and doctoral research project candidates
• Coordinating internal scholarly submission reviews for faculty
• Collaborating with the Westcliff International Journal of Applied Research (WIJAR) to support internal manuscript readiness and pre-submission review
• Working closely with the Academic Success Manager to scale services and uphold institutional standards (APA, academic integrity, responsible AI use)

Research Program Manager, WIJAR Editor

Doctoral Writing Center Lead