Dean, College of Global Futures

Description

The College of Global Futures (CGF) invites applications for the position of dean with a concurrent appointment as a tenured professor.  The appointment will be located on the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of no later than July 1, 2025.  Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.  This is a fiscal-year, full-time benefits-eligible position.

 

The College of Global Futures at Arizona State University

The College of Global Futures is part of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory®, the world’s first comprehensive, university-based approach to ensuring a habitable planet and a future where well-being is attainable for all humankind. The college contains four schools: the School of Sustainability, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, the School of Ocean Futures and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems.

 

Essential functions of the position:

• Provide administrative vision, leadership, and management for the college.
• Foster and contribute to innovation and collaboration in teaching, research, and service that advances the ASU charter.
• Foster and contribute to interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary research and teaching.
• Foster inclusion at the student, faculty, and staff levels, and across all aspects of the college's operations.

This Search is Internal to ASU Employees Only

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• An earned doctorate.
• An appointment as a tenured full professor at Arizona State University.
• A record of distinguished scholarly research and professional accomplishments.
• Administrative leadership experience in an academic environment

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in setting a vision and implementing a strategic plan resulting in expanding academic programs of national and international recognition.
• Commitment to the ideals of ASU’s mission and Charter: access, excellence, and impact; and ASU’s design aspirations. 
• Flexibility/adaptability in managing the unique aspects of the CGF structure to create new programs and to scale existing programs to deliver growth in research, scholarly and enrollments. 
• An appreciation for and willingness to learn about the relationship between the College of Global Futures and the Global Futures Lab.
• Desired capability to create and negotiate unique, flexible faculty appointments for the CGF; supportive of Global Futures Lab (GFL) strategies and the strengths of other academic and research endeavors at ASU.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering academic excellence in a fast-paced, complex, and innovative university environment. 
• Experience with hiring, retaining and supporting faculty and staff, including faculty promotion and tenure, career track faculty, staff career development, and mentoring. 
• Experience fostering a robust scholarly environment and facilitating transdisciplinary, solutions-oriented collaborative research initiatives.
• Demonstrated commitment to promoting an inclusive learning environment with experience serving the needs of multiple student populations and multiple modes of learning and program delivery.  
• Demonstrated commitment to student success with a focus on access, recruitment, retention, excellence and impact, and graduation metrics. 
• Willingness to be a creative, bold and innovative thinker with a predisposition to transdisciplinary, socially embedded research and learning. 
• Willingness to be an active listener and strong communicator who leads with integrity, honesty and transparency. 
• Willingness to function as an effective and compelling spokesperson and advocate for the CGF in internal and external environments. 
• Capacity to develop innovative and creative approaches to fundraising to enhance academic program excellence and student success.
• Ability to attract students to CGF through coordinated recruitment strategies that result in increased enrollment and retention. 

Application Instructions

For best consideration, applications should be submitted by November 15, 2024.  Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool.  Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled.