Associate Director, Community-Engaged Leadership and Director of Leadership Studies Minor

Position Title
Associate Director, Community-Engaged Leadership and Director of Leadership Studies Minor

Position Number
044311

Department
Community Engaged Leadership - 335300

Description of University

Appalachian State University, in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, prepares students to lead purposeful lives as global citizens who understand and engage their responsibilities in creating a sustainable future for all. The transformational Appalachian experience promotes a spirit of inclusion that brings people together in inspiring ways to acquire and create knowledge, to grow holistically, to act with passion and determination, and embrace diversity and difference. As one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina system, Appalachian enrolls more than 20,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate majors.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Leadership Studies, Student Affairs, Higher Education or a related area
• 5 years of full-time professional experience in higher education
• Demonstrable experience with and knowledge of current best practices in leadership education on a college campus required.
• Demonstrated experience with engagement and advising of students in a co-curricular university setting
• Demonstrated experience as a classroom instructor
• Experience with supervising and developing graduate-level and/or full-time staff members to accomplish personal and organizational goals.

License/Certification Required

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Community-Engaged Leadership is structured as a part of the Division of Student Affairs. The Mission of Community-Engaged Leadership is to engage students in academic, experiential, and community-oriented programs that enhance their capacity to serve and lead in socially-responsible ways for the benefit of their local and global communities. Our team recognizes that the development of the whole student is achieved through in-class learning and out-of-class experiences provided through programs designed to enhance cultural, intellectual, leadership, personal, and professional development. When afforded these opportunities for engagement and learning, students will graduate from the institution with a better understanding of themselves, their peers, and their responsibilities as part of a larger community.

Appalachian State University is seeking an energetic and visionary leader to serve as Associate Director within the Department of Community-Engaged Leadership. This role serves both as a full-time, professional staff and as adjunct faculty within the Reich College of Education. The Associate Director will direct the Leadership Studies Minor. serve as a primary instructor each semester, and provide oversight and development to instructors and teaching assistants in the minor. This position will also serve as a member of a team that seeks to intentionally interweave leadership education/programming with community engagement practices by providing experiential opportunities through data-informed practice and collaborative strategic planning; these efforts will be both direct and indirect through the supervision of a full-time staff person. This person will understand today’s college students, create space for students to engage in meaningful and purposeful dialogue, provide a developmental and educational context for campus programming and represent the office to external constituencies and stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Direction and oversight of relevant curricular and co-curricular initiatives
• Serve as Director of the academic Leadership Studies Minor through the Reich College of Education
• Supervise one Assistant Director who is, in turn, responsible for local community engagement and volunteer efforts
• Develop and nurture relationships with adjunct instructors, teaching assistants, and campus partners
• Teach 2 classes per semester in the Leadership Studies Minor
• Contribute to CEL department initiatives and operations including weekly meetings, annual reports, assessment, retreats, and award nominations.
• Select, train, and supervise one Graduate Assistant; supervise graduate student Teaching Assistants and internships as needed
• Work with the department’s director on the management of budget
• Utilize research, theories, models, and standards in the leadership field to design robust and inclusive curriculum for curricular and co-curricular experiences
• Integrate diverse scholarship and critical pedagogy into leadership education efforts

Suggested Salary Range
$64,000-$66,000

Physical Demands of Position

• Feeling. Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Special Instructions to Applicants

Please attach required documents:
Cover Letter
Resume (or Curriculum Vitae)
Philosophy of Teaching Statement

Optional documents to attach:
List of References and contact information or list a minimum of 3 professional references in the application profile.

AA/EEO Statement

Appalachian State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University does not discriminate in access to its educational programs and activities, or with respect to hiring or the terms and conditions of employment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information or sexual orientation.

Important Contacts:

Associate Vice Chancellor of Human Resources/Affirmative Action
Office of Human Resources
330 University Hall Dr.
Boone, NC 28608
(828) 262-3187
hr@appstate.edu

Office of Title IX Compliance
123 I.G. Greer Hall
Boone, NC 28608
(828) 262-2144
titleix@appstate.edu

ADA /504 Coordinator & EEO Officer
224 Joyce Lawrence Lane/Suite 112 Anne Belk Hall
Boone, NC 28608
(828) 262-3056
equalopportunity@appstate.edu

We at Appalachian State University are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence both locally and globally.

Diversity and Inclusion at Appalachian

We at Appalachian State University are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence both locally and globally.

We understand that the successful implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence is the responsibility of the entire university community, including alumni and official university governing bodies. A diverse campus community supports an influx of broad and distinct ideas that increase learning opportunities and strengthen the impact of our community as we work collectively to achieve a just experience for all.

We actively encourage, support, and promote a global mindset and an equitable environment where all will know that they belong and are safe to express their culture, identity, values, ideas, opinions, and creativity. We are committed to creating a culture of equity opportunity for all, one that has an expectation of fairness, justice, and equity-minded practice at all levels of the university community.

Quick Link
https://appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/37818

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