• Participates fully in the strategic budgeting and planning processes, as well as routine problem-solving and management processes;
• Collaborates effectively with other members of the college’s leadership team and CHSS stakeholders on implementation of the CHSS Inclusive Excellence plan; and
• Leads strategic initiatives to advance and support faculty career development.
  

• Oversees the college Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team’s efforts to ensure that search processes for full-time faculty positions, post-doctoral teaching, and research fellows support proactive and successful recruitment of a diverse and inclusive faculty body;
• Oversees the CHSS DEI team’s faculty retention programming, and ensures effective and efficient coordination with university-level programming;
• Coordinates new faculty orientation, providing essential information about college and university resources;
• Coordinates the college’s postdoctoral research and teaching fellows program;
• Supports faculty joint appointment MOU negotiations, draft documents, and oversees university affiliate faculty approvals for the college; and
• Tracks data on new hires, faculty departures, and faculty demographics.
  

• Assists the Dean and other members of the college’s executive leadership team with faculty contract renewal, promotion, and tenure review processes;
• Coordinates the college’s mid-term review process for Chairs/Directors;
• Monitors and ensures a high-quality annual review process for faculty throughout the college. Works with Chairs/Directors to ensure annual faculty reviews are completed in a timely, standardized, and productive manner;
• Monitors and evaluates faculty workload policy as implemented in departments/programs and reported in the annual review process, and assists Chairs/Directors with iterative updates;
• Monitors and evaluates local academic units’ promotion, tenure standards, and guidelines, and assists Chairs/Directors with iterative updates; and
• Tracks data on faculty promotion, career ladder development, and demographics for the college’s tenure-line and term instructional faculty.
  

• Partners effectively with Chairs/Directors, as well as university offices in the provision of career development support to faculty throughout their careers, and especially at critical transition points (e.g., promotion and tenure review; review for promotion to full professor; transition from term to tenure-track contracts, etc.); mentors individual faculty as needed regarding preparation of RPT casebooks;
• Supports inclusive pedagogy through coaching and mentorship of Chairs/Directors, as well as individual faculty as needed; ensures effective coordination with university-level programming and offices; stays informed regarding best practices for faculty in a rapidly changing higher education landscape; coaches faculty and programs on evolving practices when needed;
• Coordinates CHSS competitive awards programming for term instructional faculty career development (such as term faculty study leaves) and post-tenure career development (such as Career Development Faculty Research and Development Awards);
• Provides individual career counseling sessions upon faculty request to assist with establishing career goals and plans; ensures effective and efficient coordination with university-level offices; coordinates the college’s nomination process for prestigious university-level awards and its efforts to support faculty engagement in nationally recognized higher education leadership development programs; and
• Partners with the Associate Dean of Research and Assistant Dean of Strategic Communications and Marketing to coordinate recognition of college faculty achievements.
  

• Assists, mentors, and supports CHSS Chairs/Directors with development of and updates to local academic unit shared governance policies and guidelines such as bylaws, RPT guidelines, workload guidelines, and designs of sub-chair roles and administrative responsibilities;
• Supports and collaborates with CHSS Faculty Assembly leadership to ensure effective faculty shared governance operations and processes;
• Serves as ex officio on CHSS Faculty Assembly’s Term Faculty Affairs Committee; and
• Assists the Dean and Faculty Assembly leadership with updates as needed to college policies and guidelines related to faculty workload, promotion, and tenure requirements and expectations.
  

• Serves on relevant university and college committees;
• Maintains knowledge of trends in higher education through attendance at conferences and engagement in higher education professional organizations; and
• Undertakes any associated or alternative duties as directed by the dean.

• Doctoral degree in a CHSS discipline. Candidates must hold or be eligible for a tenured position at the rank of Associate Professor in CHSS;
• Ability and experience supporting a culture of inclusion and diversity in higher education;
• Prior experience interpreting and applying academic standards and designing/managing performance review processes;
• Excellent administrative, analytical, communication, interpersonal, managerial, and problem-solving skills;
• Ability to think strategically and lead initiatives that affect and involve multiple college and university stakeholders;
• Ability to build strong partnerships within the College and University;
• Ability to manage highly sensitive information appropriately;
• Strong collaboration, persuasion, and consensus-building skills;
• Skill and experience examining and reengineering operations and procedures, as well as designing and implementing new initiatives to improve quality outcomes; and
• Skill and experience in organizing resources and establishing priorities, budget preparation, and the ability to manage budgetary expenditures for compliance with an approved budget.

• Candidates hold or are eligible for a tenured position at the rank of Full Professor in CHSS;
• Experience in a research-intensive university; and
• Experience in academic leadership roles involving faculty recruitment, retention, career development, and/or faculty-focused inclusive excellence initiatives.

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