Associate Director, Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship
About The Position
This role leads the team responsible for supporting key pedagogical and scholarly technologies, including geographic information systems, multimedia, and learning management systems. The Associate Director works with partners across campus to meet information and digital literacy goals, providing strategic planning and operational support for faculty and students to integrate these technologies into their scholarship, teaching, and learning. The position delivers direct support through instruction or mentoring, establishes structures for tool support, recommends supportive technology tools, and develops plans for expanding technology impact across campus. Key responsibilities include elevating digital scholarship programs by building relationships, evaluating and championing emerging technologies, fostering new academic and community relationships, and collaborating on projects that benefit the University. The role also involves leading communication efforts, creating and delivering workshops, coordinating events, exploring new technologies, leading decision-making on new technologies, assessing legacy technologies, and coordinating with Information Technology stakeholders. Furthermore, the Associate Director works to position the University as a leader in sustainable digital scholarship infrastructure, ensuring a team approach to problem-solving around scholarly communications, production workflows, metadata creation, and discovery systems. The position also includes mentoring and managing direct reports, and establishing goals for professional development and employee growth.
Requirements
- Master's Degree in a relevant field
- Six (6) years of relevant work experience
- Demonstrated experience in teaching or training
- Demonstrated record of successfully using technologies related to teaching and learning
- Ability to define issues, analyze problems, evaluate alternatives, and develop sound, independent technical recommendations
Nice To Haves
- Doctoral Degree
- Eight (8) years of work experience
- Ability to write technical documentation
- Experience within higher education
- Experience in a leadership role(s)
- Knowledge of pedagogical best practices in a university setting
Responsibilities
- Lead the team responsible for supporting key pedagogical and scholarly technologies, including geographic information systems, multimedia, learning management systems and more.
- Work with partners across campus to meet information and digital literacy goals.
- Provide strategic planning and operational support for faculty and students to integrate these technologies into their scholarship, teaching and learning.
- Deliver direct support for students, faculty and staff through instruction or mentoring.
- Establish the structures needed to support these tools.
- Make recommendations about supportive technology tools.
- Develop plans for expanding the impact of these technologies across campus.
- Elevate digital scholarship programs by building relationships across campus and with extended communities.
- Evaluate and champion the use of emerging technologies to enhance the university's educational and research mission.
- Foster new relationships with academics and community organizers, advancing departmental and organizational goals.
- Collaborate with students, faculty, and staff on projects that will benefit the University and contribute to innovative uses of technology in the classroom and in scholarship.
- Lead communication efforts for the department.
- Create and deliver workshops, trainings, and instructional opportunities.
- Coordinate and collaborate on events showcasing digital scholarship and pedagogy opportunities.
- Explore new and emerging technologies that advance the educational mission of the institution.
- Lead decision-making efforts on new technologies.
- Assess legacy technologies and project lifecycles.
- Coordinate contracts, documentation, and logistics with Information Technology stakeholders.
- Work to position the University as a leader in sustainable digital scholarship infrastructure, ensuring a team approach to problem-solving around scholarly communications and production workflows, metadata creation, and discovery systems.
- Mentor and manage direct reports.
- Establish goals for professional development and employee growth.
Benefits
- Flexible scheduling options determined by role
- Medical, prescription drug, vision, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance options
- An outstanding 10% employer contribution to your retirement plan (no contribution requirement for non-exempt positions)
- Generous paid time off, including vacation and sick time, a community service day, and 19 paid holidays (including two full weeks off for Winter Break!)
- Full-time and part-time members of the faculty and staff are eligible for tuition remission for themselves.
- Full-time members of the faculty and staff are eligible for tuition remission for their spouse/spousal equivalent and are eligible for various tuition programs for their children.
- Credit for full-time benefits eligible employment at other institutions of higher education will be applied to waiting periods.
- A comprehensive employee wellness program including program incentives
- Parental leave
- An employee assistance program
- Fitness center membership
- The power of your Bucknell ID card
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
