Purdue University, West Lafayette is seeking a Director for the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE). This position reports directly to the Office of the Provost and works collectively with the Teaching Academy. The Director works collaboratively with faculty, instructors, graduate students and teaching assistants, administrators, staff and students leading a dynamic team of consultants, and administrative staff that support faculty development and instructional excellence at Purdue University. In partnerships with other support units, the CIE supports institutional- and faculty-level strategic priorities that include the campus-wide initiatives to support service learning as well as to academically transform campus foundational courses (IMPACT).
The Director is expected to build a community of practice around teaching, learning, and assessment including anticipating the evolving needs, facilitating growth of scholarship, and development of programs and faculty support. Additional duties include: strategic planning, development and assessment of the center’s mission, goals and objectives; providing leadership and partnership for the effective integration of learning technology, learning styles, and instructional space across and beyond the campus.
The successful candidate will be dynamic and a consensus builder, with an earned Ph.D.; a consultative and innovative strategic thinker with a proven ability to develop and implement a shared vision in a collaborative team environment and provide high-level advice to faculty members, instructors and academic units. This is a senior management position that requires exceptional leadership, judgment, communication and interpersonal skills, as well as a proven ability to develop effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
The ideal candidates for the position will have extensive knowledge about contemporary research on learning and significant teaching experience at the post-secondary level with 7+ years of progressive supervisory responsibilities. In addition, candidates must have extensive experience designing and implementing educational development programs, making contributions to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and developing programs to measure student learning outcomes and assessment of learning. Candidates should have familiarity with reflective practices in teaching, learning theories, education technology, and the efforts of the National Center for Academic Transformation program. The successful candidate will also have a record of conducting research, working knowledge of course and instruction evaluation theory and practice, working knowledge of academic student engagement pedagogies (e.g., service learning), successful grant proposal writing, and managing a unit’s budgets and accounting. Previous experience directing a teaching center, familiarity with and experience with the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network of Higher Education, familiarity with and awareness of faculty development work at the national level are highly desirable.
Interested candidates should submit electronically their letter of application and resume to mflemming@purdue.edu