Director of Community Engagement and Outreach - Division of Access and Engagement

Director of Community Engagement and Outreach

Description

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites applications and nominations for a highly motivated, visionary leader in community engagement and engaged scholarship to fulfill the position of Director in the Office of Community Engagement and Outreach. Reporting to the Associate Vice Chancellor for Access and Engagement & Executive Director for Community Engagement and Outreach, the Director will play a vital role in providing high-level leadership and direction for community engagement, outreach, and community-engaged scholarship. The successful candidate will be a thought leader in developing and providing strategies to advance UT’s land-grant,  R1 (very high research activity) status while building impactful and mutually beneficial partnerships in the local community, region, and across the state.

Job Functions/Responsibilities

•             Provide leadership and day-to-day supervision of the Office of Community Engagement and Outreach,

including budget oversight and supervision of staff which includes two Assistant Directors, two

Coordinators, a Graduate Research Assistant, and student workers.

•             Direct, develop, and oversee community engagement, outreach, and engaged scholarship initiatives that

align with the University’s goals, while focusing on strategies that enhance and support the University’s

  commitment to access and engagement, based on best practices and emerging research on community

engagement, outreach, and community-engaged scholarship.

•             Provide leadership for sustained multi-stakeholder relationships that promote UT’s community-engaged

scholarship, innovation, and entrepreneurship on local communities and across the state.

•             Provide leadership for best practices and emerging research on community-engaged scholarship.

•             Engage faculty, staff, students, and community members to develop solutions to Grand Challenges while

connecting stakeholders to university resources.

•             Collaborate with faculty and university leadership to uphold the collective understanding of the

scholarship of engagement and shared governance.

•             Provide leadership and oversight for UT’s Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. Serve as chair

of the Carnegie Community Engagement Committee.

•             Collaborate with and serve as an ex-officio member of the faculty-led Academic Engagement and

Outreach Council.

•             Lead efforts to create and strengthen partnerships across campus, colleges, schools, departments, individuals, and groups of faculty and external stakeholders to develop collaborations while

focusing on trust and shared governance.

•             Work with a variety of stakeholders, including faith-based organizations, schools, civic organizations, and

other groups to create opportunities for open dialogue and engaged communities.

•             Provide advisement on capacity building across local communities and statewide.

•             Cultivate and enhance mutually beneficial partnerships with community groups and organizations across

the state that may not frequently interact with UT.

•             Oversee special projects that advance UT’s R1 and land-grant status.

•             Maintain a competitive funding process to support faculty who engage with the community, have

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