Senior Director Center for Excellence in Teaching

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Current employees must apply internally via connectU > connectu.olemiss.edu

Position Description

The University of Mississippi seeks a Senior Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) to promote faculty success in teaching and learning and advance the teaching mission of the institution.  The Senior Director will provide visionary leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight to promote the professional development and academic success of all in the University community who hold a teaching role. Based on extensive experience and no less than ten years of success in directing teaching center(s), the Senior Director will provide leadership and mentoring for assistant and associate directors, deepen and strengthen bonds between the center and the teaching community, collaboratively discover and articulate the needs of that community, and build the Center to respond to the future needs of a research intensive university. The successful candidate will share our commitment to faculty and student success, access and opportunity, pedagogical innovation, and interdisciplinary collaborations.

 

Department Summary

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is a collaborative work environment where strengths and contributions are encouraged from all team members. Our Center has received outsized attention in the trade press for its original research contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning and recognizes that different perspectives help to bring a stronger outcome for our campus. We work together in partnership with faculty to identify the most pressing concerns for the teaching and learning environment, and then support them in the journey of defining problems and engaging solutions. 

 

Responsibilities

The Senior Director of CETL reports to the Executive Director of the Academic Innovations Group and will be responsible for coordinating faculty development initiatives across campus.  This responsibility requires the successful candidate to be highly collaborative, engaging with faculty, staff, students, and administrative leadership across the University. The new Senior Director will be responsible for mentoring, development, growth, and evaluation of assistant and associate directors and fostering academic innovation by partnering with staff in our Academic Innovation Group.  This will require the successful candidate to be supportive of all faculty and engage in interdepartmental initiatives to promote faculty success. 

Core responsibilities of the Senior Director include, but are not limited to, leading the coordinated and integrated development of CETL programming, identifying and leveraging the teaching strengths of each academic department/unit, and ensuring communications with these units and delivery of programs, services, and resources to university stakeholders to reflect the timely needs and interests of our educator community. The Senior Director sets the tone for performance in the CETL, leads the development and evaluation of all CETL programming, which rely on active and cooperative partnerships with academic departments to align with the diverse instructional needs of disciplines.
 

This is a 12-month position. If the individual has qualifications appropriate for appointment in an academic department, the department will be asked to consider the rank and track of the candidate at the time of hire. If an appointment is granted, the position will carry a teaching load not to exceed 1/1. The Senior Director appointment will be reviewed formally every four years with a quadrennial review.
 

Position Details

Appointment: 12 month

Assignment Type: Executive / Tenure Track

 

Examples of Work Performed

 

• Guide and develop UM faculty professional development at campus and, where possible, departmental levels.
• Plan and budget for annual faculty professional development efforts based on data collection, surveys, and faculty input.
• Mentor, supervise, and develop employees in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
• Assess effectiveness of faculty development efforts.
• Arrange event planning in support of faculty development.
• Provide teaching observations and consultations for administration, departments, and faculty.
• Support development and implementation of programming, including Inclusive Teaching Faculty Learning Communities.
• Coordinate with SI Supervisor.
• Support and coordinate with Operations Coordinator.
• Provide campus outreach on issues related to teaching and learning.
• Partner with Office of Provost to implement year-long new faculty orientation learning community.<