Job Title: Associate Director

Department: Center for Civics, Culture & Society

Worker Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salary

Salary will be commensurate with the level of the position, education, and experience.

Benefit Eligible: Yes

Screening Date: 2025-11-03

Job Description Summary: The Associate Director will be a public-spirited scholar who is committed to building an academic community in which civic life and the life of the mind flourish. Salary and benefits are competitive. We welcome applications from qualified candidates who require work authorization.

Job Description: The Associate Director will be a tenured Full or Associate Professor in the Center. 

The Associate Director will collaborate with the Executive Director on all matters pertaining to the execution of the Center’s mission.  Working with the Executive Director of the Center, the Associate Director develops and oversees all plans and programs for the Center. This includes its (1) core academic programming, faculty hiring and supervision, curricular and course development, and student recruitment; (2) its co-curricular programming such as conferences, symposia, and other public-facing events, as well as its research and grant programs. The Associate Director will hire and supervise Center staff and be responsible for administering the Center's budget. When needed, the Associate Director will represent the Executive Director at functions and events, including for development. The Associate Director will have the assistance of the Center's Assistant Directors, Project Manager, and other support staff.

The Associate Director will teach, research and publish.  The Associate Director will teach courses on a reduced load as consistent with his or her other duties.  The Associate Director will publish research and make contributions to an academic discipline related to the Center’s mission; maintain contacts with outside scholars relevant to the Center’s mission; and maintain contacts with leaders at programs, departments, and institutes across the higher education landscape whose missions resemble the Center’s mission. 

Performance Objectives:

• Contribute and demonstrate a commitment to the Center’s statutory mission through administration, research, teaching, and service.
• Build the Center into an academic community that secures its mission through excellent teaching, research and scholarship, and service.
• Work collaboratively and in a coordinated way with the Center’s Executive Director.
• Develop and effectively teach courses that advance the Center’s mission.
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently, proactively handle issues, and make decisions benefiting the Center.
• Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrate organization, attention to detail, and ability to respond to deadlines in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate poise, professionalism, and good judgment.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing goals and priorities.
• Regular in-person attendance.

Minimum Qualifications:

Required:

• Ph.D., J.D., or other terminal degree in a field related to the Center’s mission.
• Record of developing and effectively teaching courses that will advance the Center’s mission.
• Record of publishing high-quality scholarship in academic outlets in the faculty member’s discipline and other public facing outlets.
• Prior professional experience developing programming consistent with the Center’s mission, including (but not limited to) developing curriculum, activities that promote research productivity and innovation, academic community building, and activities that engage students and other community members.

Consideration will be given to candidates with:

• Experience in program administration in a higher education setting.
• Experience developing a young academic or professional program or organization. 
• Experience engaging in development activities.
• Excellent management and organizational skills—task oriented and deadline conscious. 
• Flexibility to adapt to changing goals and priorities.
• Ability to independently assess, respond to, and follow up on inquiries, and advise faculty, students, donors, and guests. Ability to interact comfortably and confidently with broad internal and external constituencies, and maintain a professional demeanor in representing the Center and the University.

Additional Position Information (if applicable)

Required Application Documents: Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae, Statement of Teaching Philosophy, and List of Courses Taught with Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness

Special Instructions (if applicable): Inquiries may be directed to Dr. Frank Flagg Taylor at taylorff@miamoh.edu. Screening of applications will begin two (2) weeks from the date of posting.

Additional Information

A criminal background check is required. All campuses are smoke- and tobacco-free campuses.

This organization participates in E-Verify.

Reasonable Accommodations
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Miami University is a scholarly community whose members believe that a liberal education is grounded in qualities of character as well as of intellect. We respect the dignity of other persons, the rights and property of others, and the right of others to hold and express disparate beliefs. We believe in honesty, integrity, and the importance of moral conduct. We defend the freedom of inquiry that is the heart of learning and combine that freedom with the exercise of judgment and the acceptance of personal responsibility.

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