Urgently Require Assistant Center Director and Lecturer in Gainesville, FL
Job title: Assistant Center Director and Lecturer
Company: University of Florida
Job description: Classification Title:
AST PRG DIR & LECTURER
Job Description:
Assistant Center Director and Lecturer
Position: Full-time, 12 month, promotion accruing faculty position (non-tenure accruing)
Date of Expected Hire: As soon as possible with a preference for before August 1, 2024
Salary: $75,000-$80,000 with a comprehensive and highly competitive leave and benefits package
In addition to your salary, the University of Florida (UF) offers low cost plans, a number of Dental plans to fit you and your family's needs, and Vision. Domestic partner coverage through GatorCare is also available. Optional plans such as life, disability, legal and accident insurance are also available. Explore UF's plethora of benefit options here:
The Center for Arts in Medicine in the College of the Arts seeks an Assistant Center Director and Lecturer. The position will include administration in the capacity of assistant center director, teaching in the Center's undergraduate and/or graduate programs, and research (broadly defined to include a range of forms of research, creative activity, or clinical practice in arts in health). The successful candidate will have extensive experience in, understanding of and a passion for administrative leadership in some combination of business, higher education, health, or community arts administration with an academic background that aligns with the Center's work in arts in health and community engaged arts practice.
The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will prepare students to access and unsettle centers of power in a radically changing world. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for equity on local and global levels.
The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty, seeking faculty of all races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
Responsibilities:
- Provide significant assistance to the director with oversight of academic program and operations budgets
- Assist the director in the establishment of equitable and effective strategies, policies and procedures that support achievement of the Center's strategic plan, tracking and documenting progress on the strategic plan
- Oversee the Center's graduate student recruitment enterprise
- Oversee teaching assignments, course scheduling and effort reporting for all faculty, in collaboration with the administrative specialist and director
- Oversee and coordinate SLO (Student Learning Outcomes) assessment and reporting for graduate and undergraduate programs
- Pedagogical mentorship of Center faculty
- Liaison with the UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine program regarding academic and research operations
- Work with the undergraduate and graduate curriculum coordinators, faculty and staff to ensure excellence and equity in the learning experience for our students, coordinate across curricula, identify and address curricular issues, and establish and implement well defined, effective roles, deliverables and metrics
- Report to the director on a weekly basis, meet with faculty members monthly, and meet bi-weekly with the Marketing, Admissions and Students Services team
- Represent the Center at COTA Executive Committee and other college or university meetings when the director is not able to attend
- Assist the director with overall operations and communications
- Teach undergraduate and graduate coursework in the MA in Arts in Medicine, graduate certificate, and/or undergraduate certificate programs as assigned
- A terminal degree or equivalent professional experience in arts in health or a field closely related arts in health such as community engaged arts practice, Creative Arts Therapies, Public Health, Arts Administration or Arts Education.
- At least 3 years administrative leadership experience.
- At least 3 years of teaching experience beyond graduate teaching assistantship at the university level
- Evidence of success in promoting an environment that advances pluralism, curiosity, viewpoint diversity, open intellectual discourse, and the well-being of all in the context of cultural and ideological difference.
- Evidence of successful grant writing experience and fiscal management responsibilities.
- Demonstrated capacity for effective engagement in student recruitment.
- Capacity and passion for navigating the logistics and mechanics of getting work done in a complex, compliance-driven public research institution.
- Evidence of successful grant writing experience and fiscal management at a higher education level
- 5+ years of teaching experience beyond graduate teaching assistantship at the university level.
- 5+ years administrative leadership experience in arts in health (in healthcare, public health or community contexts) or the creative arts therapies (practice and/or research).
- Demonstrated aptitude for working toward structural and strategic change, particularly in relationship to access, equity, and inclusion across academic, health and/or community settings.
- Evidence of online teaching.