Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Presidential Fellowship

University of Miami•Coral Gables, FL

About The Position

The Presidential Fellow oversees curriculum reform projects, including active learning methods, new program design involving the academic core, and a cross-disciplinary effort (single and combined) among different schools at the University. The incumbent reviews and appraises the University’s current curricular backbone, portfolio, and pre-existing academic identity. Moreover, the incumbent detects and sorts the pioneering, value-added programs and courses offered to current and prospective, undergraduate and graduate students.

Requirements

Master's degree in relevant field required
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required
Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Introduces academic and educational factors, variables and indicators with which to measure and build up the University’s new programs.
Offers innovative content, unconventional perspectives, use of foreign languages, internships, mentoring and counselling, civic engagement practices and social consciousness, project based-learning, regional diversity and international exposure of students while developing an easy-to-test, curricular approach to knowledge and practice.
Bolsters multidisciplinary scholarly within a collaborative faculty-student-staff environment, drawing up a transnational and transcontinental map of references that will inspire with other pioneering universities whose spirit, concerns, commitment and passion around higher education are aligned with those same values, mission and academic strategy upheld by the University.
Analyzes trends through secondary sources, benchmarking of offerings, program connections/links with the industries, face-to-face/blended formats plus teaching and learning methods, skills and competences to be developed, length of programs; price ranges; and socio-economic-demographic and academic background segmentation of "life-long learners".
Measures satisfaction, incentives and returns (relocation, promotions, earnings, etc.).
Explores non-mainstream education agents or learning providers: independent academies, corporate universities, professional associations, pure online platforms, publishing houses, museums, foundations, independent consultants, State agencies - through public subsidized courses -, as well as certain universities - through their specific executive education and continuing education units or professional studies division.
Underlines reskilling abilities, both hard and soft, that are most demanded in the current and evolving labor market, particularly in key industries that rely on technological or human-machine learning, as well as those rooted in any other kind of disruptions that might impact the workforce’s stability.
Focuses on the University’s Alumni Network -as primary sources- to help identify employers’ training needs in a wide variety of industries and fields.
Finds out the training capacity and plans of HR directors, headhunters, mid-career managers and senior executives at different institutions.
Detects companies who outsource university Continuing Education programs instead of providing in-house training.
Ensures internal control oversight and compliance with laws and regulations, safeguarding of assets, compliance with University policies and procedures, reliability of internal and external reporting, and efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Creates an effective control environment, conducts risk assessment, implements and monitors controls.