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POSITION SPECIFICS

Department Head of Privacy and Cybersecurity Informatics

The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for Department Head of Privacy and Cybersecurity Informatics (P&CI) located in State College, Pennsylvania. The headship position is a tenured appointment as an Academic Administrator at the full rank of Professor beginning in July of 2026 at the University Park campus.

The Department of Privacy and Cybersecurity Informatics (P&CI) is home to two undergraduate Bachelor of Science degrees: Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations (CYBER) and Security and Risk Analysis (SRA). The department is one of three departments in the College, with extensive interaction with faculty in the Department of Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics (HCC&SI) and Department of Informatics and Intelligent Systems (I&IS). The College’s graduate programs in Informatics span all three departments, fostering a strong culture of interdisciplinarity in teaching and research.

The primary focus of department heads in IST is managing people. Expectations for the P&CI department head include these example roles:

• Establish and implement the vision for the department’s future directions in hiring, growth, and research advances.

• Create a collaborative and respectful community where trust and support grow through strong leadership.

• Lead faculty hiring. The department has an integrated group of tenure-line and non-tenure-line faculty who teach a mixture of courses in resident, hybrid, and remote modes across varied IST degree programs.

• Plan faculty teaching assignments, with support from degree Program Coordinators (PCs) and Academic Operations staff.

• Encourage curriculum development processes by collaborating with PCs, graduate program directors, and faculty to propose/revise courses and majors with attention to university Faculty Senate guidelines.

• Provide support in covering classes during faculty absences or unexpected situations and assist with resolving teaching-related matters.

• Conduct faculty evaluations and write letters for all stages of promotion and tenure, annual reviews, sabbaticals, five-year reviews, an