CIRTL Associate Director

Salary:

Minimum $73,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits.

Job Summary:

Through the preparation of STEM future faculty, the CIRTL Network ( www.cirtl.net ) seeks to produce a national STEM faculty who are both skilled researchers and excellent teachers, and who will be able to succeed at their desired balance of the two in careers across the landscape of higher education. Each university in the CIRTL Network ( www.cirtl.net ) develops, implements, and evaluates a local CIRTL learning community and associated programs for future faculty on its campus. These learning communities all share the CIRTL core ideas, but each is uniquely implemented in ways that reflect the wide variety of campus cultures, missions, students, and circumstances. The local learning communities are the foundation of all that is CIRTL.

Each university also contributes to a Cross-Network Learning Community of primarily online programs. These courses, workshops, institutes, and webinars allow the future faculty on every campus to draw on the rich diversity of the Network universities.

The CIRTL Associate Director is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the CIRTL Network including overseeing a central staff and assisting in operations of the Network and in the coordination of the Cross-Network Learning Community. The Associate Director manages the finances of CIRTL, implements Network policies, serves on committees and working groups, presents at Network-wide meetings, and occasionally travels for Network business, among other tasks. A key role of the Associate Director is working with the Membership Operations Group to maintain and build Network memberships, providing support for new and current members as they build their local learning communities and serving as a node to facilitate connections across the Network.

Responsibilities: Plans and leads operational, outreach, and promotional activities of a research program and serves as a subject matter expert.

• 25% Plans and directs the day-to-day operational activities of one or multiple research programs or units according to established research objectives in alignment with strategic plans and initiatives
• 5% Assists in the development, coordination, and facilitation of trainings and workshops for internal and external audiences to disseminate research program developments and information
• 15% Plans, develops, and implements processes and protocols to support research aims
• 10% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• 15% Serves as a unit liaison and subject matter expert among internal and external stakeholder groups, collaborates across disciplines and functional areas, provides program information, and promotes the accomplishments and developments of scholars and research initiatives
• 5% Monitors program budget(s) and approves unit expenditures
• 5% Develops policies, procedures, and institutional agreements on behalf of the program
• 10% Grow and maintain Network memberships, providing support for new and current members as they build their local learning communities and serving as a node to facilitate connections across the Network
• 10% Collaborate on the preparation of grant and foundation proposals and on the management of awards if funded

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Preferred
Master's Degree

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications
- Minimum of five years of experience with demonstrated success coordinating and facilitating work across multiple project teams in higher education
- Demonstrated commitment to promoting social justice, equity, diversity and history of/experience with contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment
- Experience leading, mentoring, and supervising staff
- Experience writing collaborative reports, articles, and/or grant proposals
- Experience facilitating virtual or in-person meetings

Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to establish and maintain effective, professional, and team-oriented working relationships with administrators, faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs, at UW Madison, other partner institutions, and nationally in the education community.
- Familiarity with pedagogical techniques for teaching and learning
- Expertise in using MS Office, Google applications, and online video conferencing software such as Zoom
- Masters degree in a STEM field
- Strong organizational skills
- Experience in working on externally funded projects
- Experience drafting, monitoring and managing project budgets
- Experience managing multiple projects with overlapping timelines
- Experience conceiving, writing and managing grant proposals

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

It is anticipated this position will be remote and requires work be performed at an offsite, non-campus work location. There is an option to work onsite as well.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Additional Information:

The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), established in 1964, is one of the first, most productive, and largest university-based education research and development centers in the world. WCER's researchers and staff work to make teaching and learning as effective as possible for all ages and all people.

WCER's mission is to improve educational outcomes for diverse student populations, impact education practice positively and foster collaborations among academic disciplines and practitioners. To this end, our center helps scholars and practitioners develop, submit, conduct, and share grant-funded education research.

At WCER, all employees share five fundamental organization values to guide the purpose and quality of our work and interactions within ourselves and our outside stakeholders. The values that the work and people of WCER strive to uphold are:

- Innovation and Excellence. Continuous improvement is a driver for excellence. We innovate and improve in our work to advance education through leading research and development.

- Equitable Education. Equitable education is essential to a healthy society. We aim to reverse imbalances and injustices in education through our work.

- Affirming and Increasing Diversity. Individual differences and group diversity inspire creative and equitable outcomes. We actively affirm and seek to increase such diversity in our center.

- Healthy Workplace. The well-being of our workplace enhances success for all. We commit to a workplace based on mutual respect and transparency.

- Partnering Across Differences. Diverse backgrounds and expertise improve the quality of our work. We collaborate across disciplines, methodologies, organizations, and communities to strengthen our research and development outcomes.

How to Apply:

Please click on the "" button to start the application process. As part of the application process, you will be required to submit:
- A cover letter addressed to Jennifer Drexel: briefly describe your interest and qualifications for this position and touch on each of the required qualifications.
- A current resume
- A list with the contact information of at least three professional references

Our center is conscious of inequities in the field of education and how these disproportionately harm the most marginalized members of our society- including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color) individuals, people from poor and working-class backgrounds, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ people. We firmly believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or members of other marginalized groups.

Contact:

Becky Ohan
bsohan@wisc.edu
608-262-5158
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Official Title:

Research Program Manager (B)(RE087)

Department(s):

A17-SCHOOL OF EDUCATION/WCER

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

279161-AS

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