Director Of Center For Teaching And Learning Innovation

Job no: 852785

Work type: Faculty/Academic Staff

Major Administrative Unit / College: Provost And Academic Affairs

Department: Center, Teaching And Learning Innovation 40001001

Sub Area: FAS- Fac./Acad Staff

Salary: Salary Commensurate with Experience

Location: East Lansing

Categories: Administrative/Business/Professional, Education/Training, Continuing System Academic Staff, Full Time (90-100%), Non-Union, Remote-Friendly

Working/Functional Title

Director of Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation

Position Summary

The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning is to support MSUs educators and their practices through collaboration and consultation. The CTLI team supports educators through evidence-based teaching practices, inclusive pedagogy, and engagement in innovation, collaboration, scholarship, and advocacy to advance teaching and learning practices. The Director will lead, support, and oversee the work of this team towards these ends.

• The Director serves as a key liaison with university stakeholders and other constituency groups including administrators, faculty, graduate students, staff of collaborative offices, and development.
• The Director works closely with the Associate Provost responsible for Teaching and Learning, and heads of other support units.
• The role will require engagement outside the institution in professional organizations and societies, including POD and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.
• The Director also ensures the CTLI team collaborates with teaching center affiliates from other support units and the academic colleges/schools/departments to facilitate collaborative partnerships with educators to support teaching and learning initiatives.
• The Director drives the development of teaching and learning resources and programs for all MSUs educators, including faculty, academic staff, librarians, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
• In addition, the director supports research on teaching and learning at MSU and helps promote effective educative practices.
• The Director also plays a key role in directing the design, implementation, and promotion of events for educators, including opportunities to collaborate and explore innovative approaches to aiding teaching and learning.
• The Director makes key administrative decisions relating to the center and other centrally funded teaching and learning programs at MSU, including managing budgets.
• The Director will expand diversity, equity, inclusion, and access within MSUs teaching mission, responding to, and supporting the interests and needs of a diverse and evolving faculty and student body.

Ideal candidates will have excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, and facilitate a collaborative approach to executing the mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation. This Director reports directly to the Associate Provost responsible for Teaching and Learning Innovation. The Director needs to be present on campus to run programs and events periodically, however a candidates need for flexibility of schedule (e.g. flextime or compressed workweek) or location (e.g. telecommuting or hybrid work arrangements) may be discussed during recruitment.

Essential Functions

40% Makes decisions about CTLI programming and services offered by CTLI; works collaboratively with colleagues to fulfill the center’s portfolio and develops, offers, and assesses CTLI’s programs, services, and projects;

30% Oversee the educator developer staff of the CTLI to achieve goals and sustain the day-to-day operation of the CTLI, with a focus on providing meaningful service to MSU educators. Responsible for hiring, retention, and professional development of educator development staff and accountable for the performance of employees.

10% Develops and implements strategic plan(s) for CTLI by providing vision, knowledge, and direction for the CTLI and by collaborating with colleagues in academic units. Works with Associate Provost and Chief Academic Digital Officer to develop multi-year operational and budget plans for the CTLI.

10% Build partnerships with colleagues in academic units to support MSU’s educators. Offers specific recommendations to stakeholders that would improve the impact of the CTLI, and other central support units.

10% Participates actively in campus-wide peer professional development. Participates in international dialogue about education and educator development. Represents CTLI and MSU in scientific, professional, and administrative collaborations with other entities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Degree

Doctorate -PhD or other earned Doctorate

Minimum Requirements

• Evidence of developing, implementing, and/or assessing initiatives that foster inclusive learning environments and address barriers to increasing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in educational settings.
• Three years of work experience supporting teaching and learning in a context broader than a single department.
• Five years of higher education working experience, including college teaching.
• Demonstrated aptitude to create productive partnerships with other campus teaching and learning offices to amplify the impact of services provided to the educator community.
• PhD or other Doctoral Degree.

Desired Qualifications

Preferred Experience (Equally Valued Skillsets)

Teaching and Learning Scholarship

• Aptitude to collect, manage, analyze confidential internal and research data.
• Strong knowledge of evidence-based teaching practices and/or scholarship on teaching and learning in higher education.
• Subject matter expertise in the published research and best practices of teaching and learning in the higher education context.

Inclusive pedagogy

• Experience with universal design for learning and accessible pedagogies.
• Evidence of experience with inclusive pedagogical practices.

Leadership in higher education

• Experience engaging a wide variety of constituents including administrators, faculty, staff, advisors, and students, as well as, colleagues from peer institutions.
• Experience developing and implementing college and/or university-wide programs.
• Demonstrated aptitude to develop relationships with influential university leaders, faculty champions, and academic units to create a network of support.
• Demonstrated aptitude to think strategically and lead change.

Organizational and management skills

• Excellent organization, prioritization, and planning skills. Strong ability in budget planning and financial forecasting.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and solution-finding skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong negotiation and relationship-building skills.

Required Application Materials

• Diversity Statement: Write about your experiences and abilities to positively impact diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) efforts on campus, and specifically in your own work and classes. (in about 500 words)
• Teaching or Faculty Development Philosophy Statement (in about 500 words): Write a narrative that includes your conception of teaching and learning, a description of how you practice as an educator/educator-developer, a justification for why you practice that way.
• Curriculum Vitae
• Provide three professional references, with contact information (will not contact until finalist stage)
• Cover Letter / Statement of Interest

Special Instructions

The committee will conduct screening interviews via Zoom or Teams. Candidates selected as finalists may be invited to campus, and their candidacy may become widely known at that time. Finalists will be expected to provide professional references with contact information, and the committee may contact them directly.

Remote Work Statement

MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment and this position has been designated as remote-friendly. Remote-friendly means some or all of the duties can be performed remotely as mutually agreed upon.

Website

https://teachingcenter.msu.edu/

Department Statement

The Provost provides the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation as a university-wide resource. The Center is an integral part of the broader educator development network that includes MSU IT, MSU Libraries, and local resources in many academic units. It brings together people from across campus to focus on innovation in teaching practices, learning technology development or other areas where we might improve how our students learn. Within the center we have a diverse team of educators who combine an interdisciplinary set of approaches to address the multi-layered challenges of the universitys educational mission and the diversity among our educators. As we support faculty and staff success, we recognize "educator" in the most inclusive way possible, anyone who plays a part in supporting students learning and student success is an educator. Educators sometimes have acute needs for support, and at other times seek support for their professional development or to implement a new course or program. The center aspires to be helpful in each of these areas.

We approach our work co-creating with students and educators from a learning experience design perspective. Our learning experience design process begins with dialogue and inquiry to surface fundamental needs of the people involved and exploring the complexities of problem spaces associated with learning. When we are directly involved in creating a learning experience, we encourage participatory design, prototyping and iteration toward solutions for sustainable success. Across our portfolio, we address learning experiences at multiple scales. Educators may touch base with us for advice, resources, or a quick consultation. Other engagements are longer and require assigning a staff member to partner with an educational team, or to engage on project work for a longer duration.

MSU Statement

Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.

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