Executive Director of the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery

Working Title: Executive Director of the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery

State Role Title: AP Faculty

Position Type: Administrative & Professional (Non-teaching Faculty)

Position Status: Full-Time

 

College/Division: Center for International Stabilization & Recovery (CISR)

Department: 550450 - CISR Stabilization and Recovery

 

Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience

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Is this a JMU only position? No

Is this a grant-funded position? Yes. This is a grant-funded position and is contingent upon continued funding.

Is this a Conflict of Interest designated position? No

 

Beginning Review Date: 11/10/2024

 

About JMU:

Mission
We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives.

Vision
To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world.

Who We Are
Located in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. With a population of just over 53,000, Harrisonburg is one of the most diverse communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and inclusive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 20,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty.

JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. The university is committed to expanding diversity, fostering equity and inclusion, and supporting superlative teaching and scholarship. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research.

 

General Information:

Since our founding in 1996, the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery (CISR), a center of excellence at James Madison University (JMU), has been dedicated to understanding and overcoming global conflict. In fulfilling its mission, CISR produces the industry leading publication, The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, a professional trade publication for the humanitarian mine action and ERW community of practice, and the US Department of State's annual report on conventional weapons destruction, To Walk the Earth in Safety. CISR has also hosted conferences, conducted research studies, provided management training for organizations that clear land contaminated with explosive remnants of war, designed and implemented peer support training for survivors of conflict, conducted capacity-building training for disability rights organizations, and conducted explosive ordnance risk education for communities living with explosive hazard contamination, among other projects. More recently CISR’s work has expanded beyond post-conflict humanitarian mine action and conventional weapons destruction to include international development and capacity building projects such as mentoring the American University of Kurdistan in Iraq to achieve US accreditation, capacity development with the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) based out of University of South Africa, and helping to support the Regional Explosive Hazards Training Centre in Tajikistan.

CISR is seeking an Executive Director to lead the organization’s strategic mission by providing visionary leadership, ensuring CISR’s financial success, and raising the international profile of the organization. The Executive Director position reports directly to the JMU Associate Vice President of Research and Scholarship and is a key leadership position responsible for overseeing all aspects of CISR’s administration.

For additional information about CISR, please visit: https://www.jmu.edu/cisr/index.shtml

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Oversee dedicated staff of the Center consisting of a combination of full-time and part-time employees, graduate assistants, and undergraduate student employees and interns; oversee CISR team strategic planning efforts; provide overall leadership