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About The Position

Requirements

• Earned terminal degree in education, social work, psychology, or a closely related field.
• Academic credentials appropriate for appointment as a tenured full professor and in accordance with accreditation requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in senior academic leadership roles.
• Proven ability to lead complex organizational change and collaborative planning processes.
• Strong commitment to transparency, collaborative engagement, and data-informed strategic decision making.
• Leadership and demonstrated excellence in securing external funding to support research, scholarly, and creative works.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading interdisciplinary or multi‑unit academic organizations.
• Familiarity with accreditation and licensure requirements in education, social work, and/or psychology.
• Experience with academic restructuring, mergers, or large‑scale institutional transitions.
• Demonstrated financial and operational leadership.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience across identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of annual, major and principal gifts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic planning and execution of the unification of GSPP, GSSW, and MCE into a single college, in alignment with university goals and governance processes.
• Develop, in collaboration with faculty, staff, and university leadership, a clear and compelling vision, timeline, and implementation plan for unification.
• Oversee the integration of academic structures, administrative functions, governance, bylaws, policies, and reporting lines.
• Ensure clear, consistent, and transparent communication with all stakeholders throughout the transition process.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities associated with unification and proactively address them.
• Ensure academic quality, reputational strengths, accreditation integrity, and continuity of programs during the transition period and over the subsequent unified college in future years.
• Support faculty leadership in aligning curricula, program portfolios, and interdisciplinary opportunities within the unified structure.
• Oversee professional licensure, clinical, internship, and field education requirements, and compliance with accrediting bodies.
• Encourage innovation and excellence in research and curricular evaluation activities, interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and community‑engaged learning that best promote the student experience and success.
• Advance a robust research enterprise that supports faculty scholarship, strengthens research capacity and infrastructure, and fosters interdisciplinary collaborations.
• Facilitates the pursuit of external funding for research, development, and dissemination.
• Elevate the role of research and externally funded work as key to the unified college’s mission, reputation, and future success.
• Provide steady leadership to faculty and staff across academic units during organizational change.
• Foster an inclusive, respectful, and collaborative culture that values shared governance, academic freedom, freedom of expression and pluralism, and differing professional voices.
• Oversee personnel decisions, workload planning, and organizational design consistent with the charge and university policy.
• Support leadership development among associate deans, chairs, directors, and administrative leaders.
• Ensure continuity and quality of the student experience during the unification of these academic units, including advising, field, clinic, internship learning activities, and professional preparation.
• Communicate clearly with students about the transition and its impact on their academic programs and credentials.
• Promote student intellectual growth, well‑being, belonging, and timely degree completion for successful, purposeful careers.
• Oversee budgets, resource allocation, and financial planning for all three schools/college during the transition period and over the subsequent unified college in future fiscal years.
• Identify efficiencies, shared services, and strategic investments to support long‑term sustainability of the unified college.
• Collaborate with university partners on administrative integration.
• Work with faculty governance bodies and university leadership to develop structures appropriate for a unified college.
• Serve as the chief academic and administrative representative of GSPP, GSSW, and MCE during the transition period and over the subsequent unified college in future fiscal years.
• Partner with advancement teams to realize transformational philanthropy for the unit, including responsibility for annual and campaign fundraising goals.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• retirement
• paid time off
• tuition benefit
• ECO pass