Accreditation and Assessment Coordinator/Professorial Lecturer

The School of Education at American University invites applications for a term (non-tenure track) faculty appointment for academic year 2020-21, with potential for subsequent annual reappointment. Rank will be dependent on experience and stature in the field. The appointment is a 9-month faculty position and will commence on September 1, 2020. Applicants should hold a doctoral (i.e., PhD, EdD) degree in education or other closely related field (e.g., child development). The SOE is committed to equity and excellence in education and the SOE actively encourages applications from members of all ethnic, racial, and/or cultural groups underrepresented in higher education. Candidates must have a belief and commitment to anti-racism.

American University’s School of Education (SOE) is located in Washington DC, a city with committed and innovative urban educators and access to some of the nation’s largest and most diverse school districts. The SOE, with commitments to anti-racism and increasing equitable educational outcomes of students in all learning environments, is a growing school with programs in teacher education, special education, international education, and educational policy and leadership. American University is a private research institution within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts. For more information about American University, visit www.american.edu . Additional information about the School of Education is available at https://www.american.edu/soe/ .

This position includes responsibilities of a Term faculty member as well as administration related to accreditation, assessment, and program improvement initiatives. Accreditation, assessment, and program improvement duties include:

1. Develop, along with faculty and program directors, an anti-racist school-wide assessment plan for all SOE programs, including a calendar that included timelines for reviews and evaluation of assessment data to make program changes;
2. Document and report to the Dean, Associate Dean, Assistant Dean and program directors about accreditation processes and procedures, and provide reports from program assessments by program and by graduation year each year;
3. Provide faculty with data and interpretive results from those data to support to program coordinators and program directors related to assessment processes;
4. Lead the School of Education’s implementation of end of program assessment approaches (e.g., edTPA) in line with the unit’s 2022 CAEP review;
5. Oversee the use and implementation of the SOE’s assessment and data system and make recommendations for additional needs/upgrades/or complimentary systems;
6. Collaborate with university offices (including admissions, enrollment services, the registrar, institutional research, office of undergraduate and graduate studies);
7. In collaboration with the School of Educations DEI Committee and Assessment Committee, prepare and administer the SOE racial climate survey and providing data to leadership disaggregated by race and gender;
8. In collaboration with the School of Education's DEI Committee and Assessment Committee, aggregate qualitative evidence on student and faculty experiences to inform future anti-racist faculty trainings.
9. In collaboration with the DEI Committee and the Assessment Committee to organize listening sessions/focus groups with SOE students to assess whether students consider their classrooms and spaces anti-racist;
10. Collaborate with faculty and monitor the collection of student learning and performance assessment data (including Title II reports, alumni and employer surveys) at the unit and program level;
11. Provide “SOE by the Numbers” on a quarterly basis for the Dean and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs;
12. Coordinate SOE efforts toward broader University-level assessment and accreditation needs (e.g. the Faculty Senate Committee on Learning Assessment; Middles States Accreditation process).

Salary is competitive. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled, subject to on-going budgetary approval.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of work experience designing and executing program analyses in a K12 or higher education environment, including quantitative and qualitative data analysis at various levels (e.g. student-level, course-level, program-level, and/or institution-level).
• Knowledge and experience with professional standards, particularly in Education including CAEP and Field-specific Specialty Program Associations, EdTPA, and analysis techniques for assessment studies, including statistical techniques, data collection instrument development (e.g., survey and interview questions), and data collection methods.
• Doctoral (i.e., PhD, EdD) degree in education or other closely related field.

Include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a list of recommenders, recent teaching evaluations (when possible), and copies of recent published papers or working papers. Please submit the recent teaching evaluations and copies of recent published papers or working papers under "Required Documents-Additional Documents" section.