Associate Vice Provost for Transformative Teaching and Learning, CTL Executive Director

The Georgia Institute of Technology invites applications and nominations for the position of Associate Vice Provost for Transformative Teaching and Learning/Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning (AVP-TTL). Reporting to the Senior Vice Provost for Education & Learning (SVP-EL), the AVP-TTL is responsible for advancing Georgia Tech’s strategic goal of transformative teaching and learning as well as overseeing and executing on programs and services that promote and support teaching effectiveness. The AVP-TTL seeks to create a campus culture where excellence in teaching and learning is valued and where educators engage in innovative teaching practices. The AVP-TTL will serve as a member of the SVP-EL senior leadership team. This is a full-time faculty position.

About Georgia Tech and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
From its beginnings more than a century ago, the Georgia Institute of Technology has established a tradition of excellence in technological research and education. Georgia Tech is one of the world’s premier technology-oriented universities, boasting a superb faculty of world-class teachers, researchers, and consultants. The Institute is well known for its high academic standards and stands among the top ranks of U.S. research universities with a clear vision for leadership in providing a technological education into the next century. Visit www.gatech.edu.

Reporting to the Senior Vice Provost for Education and Learning, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) takes a student-centered, evidence-based approach to teaching and learning. The Center encourages faculty and instructors to be intentionally and consistently reflective about their own identities and pedagogical choices that promote engaged and transformative learning. The three functional areas – faculty teaching and learning initiatives, future faculty initiatives (which includes programs for Teaching Assistants), and online teaching and learning initiatives – seek to develop data-informed resources and thriving instructional communities that promote student success across instructional modalities.

Position Scope and Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be a dedicated, creative, and experienced educator who will provide leadership that promotes innovation in teaching and learning practices. The AVP-TTL will be a motivating leader who advances the use of evidence-based pedagogical practices and educational technology that help students learn, persist, succeed, graduate, and ultimately thrive.

Examples of expected responsibilities of the AVP-TTL include but are not limited to:

Strategic Leadership

• Support Georgia Tech’s strategic goal on transformative teaching and learning, specifically in supporting faculty to innovate and scale transformative teaching practice
• Provide leadership across the Institute by liaising with college deans, vice provosts, school chairs, and leadership as well as faculty, lecturers, and academic professionals to design and lead the implementation of innovative programs focusing on teaching and learning.
• Conduct strategic planning in collaboration with campus leaders as it relates to teaching effectiveness
• Provide leadership and advocacy that support outstanding teaching at Georgia Tech.
• Serve as a member of the SVP-EL leadership team and collaborate closely with the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education on initiatives related to undergraduate and graduate student learning

Programs and Services to Enhance Teaching and Learning

• Oversee the development of programming and services that make the Center for Teaching and Learning the premier resource for professional development around evidence-based teaching and learning.
• Support faculty toward the adoption of pedagogical strategies that promote engaged and transformative learning that leads to student success in and across different instructional modalities (e.g., in person, online, hybrid).
• Recognize and highlight exemplary teaching throughout Georgia Tech’s schools and disciplines.
• Oversee the support of postdocs, undergraduate, graduate students, teaching assistants, and future faculty in their teaching roles and preparation for their future careers.
• Coordinate the University of Georgia (USG) teaching awards and assists with USG teaching and learning initiatives.

Outreach and Community Building

• Inspire instructors to adopt best practices while keeping an open mind and possessing the diplomacy, flexibility, and nuance to understand reasons for reluctance to change among faculty and schools.
• Represent the Center for Teaching and Learning on committees and task forces relevant to expertise and related to priorities.
• Serve as the Tech's liaison to University System of Georgia (USG) and other state and national organizations

Administration

• Provide excellent fiscal stewardship and management of the CTL budget.  Determine budget priorities and annual funding requests based on strategic priorities.
• Hire, mentor, and provide leadership for the Center's professional and administrative staff.
• Oversee the coordination of CTL awards and recognitions, such as Thank-a-Teacher, CTL faculty awards, the CIOS annual award, CIOS Semester Honor Roll, and TA and Future Faculty awards.
• Oversee CTL print and online publications (e.g., Teaching at Georgia Tech: A Guidebook for Faculty, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants, the CTL Newsletter), marketing of CTL programs and services, and CTL's web-presence.
• Work collaboratively with others in CTL to increase the center's profile, reputation and visibility at the state and national levels.

Required Qualifications

• Earned doctorate (Ph.D., Ed.D., or equivalent degree) from an accredited, research-intensive university, preferably in a discipline represented at Georgia Tech
• Minimum of 6 years relevant administrative experience in a higher education setting.
• Minimum of 6 years college-level teaching experience.
• Understanding of evidence-based teaching and learning theories and practices.
• Understanding of the use of technology to scale and implement innovative teaching practices
• Ability to build partnerships with diverse units across a complex organization and among faculty and staff at all levels.
• A record of effective leadership, collaboration, and program building that enhances the university's culture of teaching and learning.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in project management, strategic planning and marketing.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in supervising and mentoring a professional staff.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing both individual mentorship and programmatic support to faculty in course design and instruction.
• Experience with outcomes assessment and continuous improvement processes.
• Experience designing, facilitating, and evaluating workshops, and other group events that focus on evidence-based practices of teaching and learning.
• At least three years of relevant leadership experience including direct management of fiscal and human resources.
• Demonstrates superior organizational and time management skills, with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work seamlessly with various constituency groups, as both a center director and collaborator.
• Demonstrates ability to lead, manage, and work with team members with a variety of backgrounds. disciplines, and levels of expertise.
• Professionally active in state, regional or national organizations or efforts to improve teaching and learning in higher education.

Salary and Benefits
This is a 12-month academic faculty position at the level of academic professional (academic rank may be negotiable depending on selected candidate’s credentials). The Institute offers a competitive salary and an excellent fringe benefit package as well as an exciting, challenging, and rewarding work environment.

The position is open to all members of Georgia Tech’s academic faculty, including both tenured/tenure track and non-tenure track faculty. Internal candidates would maintain their existing faculty title. External candidates are also encouraged to apply, and would be hired as Academic Non-Tenure Track faculty (Academic Professional, Senior Academic Professional, or Principal Academic Professional, dependent on the selected candidate’s qualifications).


To Apply

Required Documents to Attach
Please include a cover letter and curriculum vita as part of your package.

Equal Employment Opportunity
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