Director of Cybersecurity Programs

Position Title Director of Cybersecurity Programs About the University

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

About the College The College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Department are committed to creating equitable and inclusive learning and working environments for their students, faculty, and staff. WWU is one of 24 institutions in the USA to receive funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence Program.  One HHMI Initiative is the Advancing Excellence and Equity in Science (AEES) Program that focuses on enhancing recruitment, retention, and success for first-generation, underrepresented racial and ethnic minority, female, and transfer students in CSE. In addition, several faculty-led initiatives and committees focus on diversity and inclusivity in the classroom and beyond.  Involvement with the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), and our “Out in Science” program are also vital to advancing inclusion within the college (WWU STEM Clubs). About the Department

The College of Science and Engineering and the Computer Science Department support Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The Computer Science Department has 17 tenured or tenure-track faculty, 15 non-tenure track instructors, and serves approximately 400 majors or pre-majors. The department offers an ABET-accredited B.S. in computer science, an M.S. degree, and B.S. degrees in Data Science and Cybersecurity, as well as a CS Education B.A. degree. The department has a strong history of research collaboration with other disciplines across campus such as Anthropology, Linguistics, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Physics, among others, as well as collaborations with regional tech partners such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL). Collaborations with the Washington Autonomous Vehicle Cluster (WAV-C), and with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), provide additional opportunities for faculty whose specialty is robotics. Faculty-mentored research projects are a hallmark of CS at WWU, which the department and college support in numerous ways, including by funding student and faculty travel to academic conferences to present their co-authored publications.

ADEI efforts: The Computer Science Department is committed to cultivating equitable and diverse learning and work environments to fulfill Western’s strategic goals of Advancing Inclusive Success, Increasing Washington Impact, and Enhancing Academic Excellence. The department’s on-going efforts include faculty involvement in workshops on inclusive pedagogy and educational research on student success, among others.

Work Life Balance: The department supports a genuine balance between teaching and scholarship, and between life