State University of New York, Cortland
Senior Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning
State University of New York, Cortland, New York, New York, us, 10261
SUNY Cortland is looking for a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative leader to reignite the university’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). The CTL is a campus resource for the creation and sharing of knowledge around college teaching and learning. The CTL supports faculty and staff working directly with students by providing professional development on student development, teaching methods, assessment, and inclusive practices within and beyond the classroom. Given the broad depth of knowledge on the campus, particularly within education disciplines, the CTL will create venues for collaboration and dissemination of colleagues’ expertise.
The Senior Director is charged with understanding the needs of SUNY Cortland learners and supporting the faculty in all aspects of teaching including, but not limited to: pedagogy, course design, assessment, facilitation, methods, and inclusion. They will ensure that the campus is aware of local needs and resources as well as available support from SUNY and professional organizations. The Senior Director will administer the personnel, budgeting, and planning/assessment for the office.
The Senior Director will hold a full-time twelve-month administrative appointment, with the possibility of a zero percent time faculty appointment in an academic unit, at a rank dependent upon qualifications and experience.
The goals of the Center include:
Creating a centralized resource for all SUNY faculty on college teaching including curriculum design, active learning strategies, technology utilization, inclusive excellence, and meaningful assessment of student learning and teaching effectiveness.
Expanding opportunities for faculty development based in theory and scholarship on college teaching.
Supporting curricular design, including but not limited to developing student learning outcomes, assessment, leading the annual teaching and learning conference.
Supporting innovation in design, pedagogy, and delivery including a focus on online teaching.
Encouraging faculty to engage with the scholarship of teaching.
Major Responsibilities
Connect faculty with traditional and emergent scholarships on college teaching by sharing best practice information, organizing workshops and panels, inviting keynote speakers, etc.
Support faculty scholarship and grant development on college teaching by researching and sharing relevant grant opportunities, collaborating with faculty on teaching grants, and collaborating with the Research and Sponsored Programs Office on grant development related to college teaching and learning.
Support curricular design including developing student learning outcomes, assessment, leading the annual teaching and learning conference.
Facilitate a campus consortium on teaching and learning to increase dialogue and integrated planning.
Support innovation in design, pedagogy, and delivery including a focus on online teaching.
Coordinate work of faculty teaching fellows earning extra service for their contributions.
Manage the center budget.
Supervise and mentor the Associate Director, instructional designers, and a shared part-time Administrative Assistant 1.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Collaborative leadership skills and ability to coordinate work among colleagues.
Organizational and planning skills and effective program management.
Knowledge of teaching theory, methods, student learning, and assessment.
Knowledge of a range of educational technologies that support innovative pedagogies.
Demonstrated openness to different viewpoints and ability to communicate sensitive to and respectful of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Able to gain trust of colleagues, show respect for others, value diversity, equity and inclusion, demonstrate honesty and integrity, and uphold others to the same expectations while working on efforts to improve teaching effectiveness.
The successful candidate must be creative, collaborative, flexible, detail-oriented, and thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment.
Ability to lead positive and necessary change and possess flexible interpersonal styles to effectively interact with and develop others.
Demonstrated effective supervisory experience.
Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
Functional and Supervisory Relationships
Reports to Provost.
Supervises the Associate Director for Inclusive Teaching, the Director of the Learning Center, a team of instructional designers (including an Associate Director), and a part-time secretary that supports the Institute and the campus Faculty Development Committee.
Works collaboratively with the Center Advisory Committee.
Required Qualifications
Master’s degree.
5+ years progressively responsible experience in an educational environment which includes leadership responsibilities.
Experience delivering professional development/training and/or teaching in higher education.
Demonstrated technology skills and ability, including the use of a LMS and other educational technology.
Experience teaching at the college level.
Demonstrated effective supervisory experience.
Experience managing a budget.
Preferred Qualifications
A terminal degree or master’s degree with significant progress toward doctorate, especially if in education.
Experience working with teaching and learning center programs.
Demonstrated application of course design principles and practices in a postsecondary environment.
Record of such as professional presentations, grants, or publications in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) or Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER).
Experience teaching in the Brightspace LMS and/or training and otherwise supporting others in using Brightspace.
Experience and demonstrated success in obtaining grant funding.
EEO Statement
The State University of New York at Cortland is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity/Americans with Disabilities Act (AA/EEO/ADA) employer. The university actively seeks applications from women, veterans, individuals with a disability, members of underrepresented groups or anyone that would enrich the diversity of the university.
Job Close Date
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The Senior Director is charged with understanding the needs of SUNY Cortland learners and supporting the faculty in all aspects of teaching including, but not limited to: pedagogy, course design, assessment, facilitation, methods, and inclusion. They will ensure that the campus is aware of local needs and resources as well as available support from SUNY and professional organizations. The Senior Director will administer the personnel, budgeting, and planning/assessment for the office.
The Senior Director will hold a full-time twelve-month administrative appointment, with the possibility of a zero percent time faculty appointment in an academic unit, at a rank dependent upon qualifications and experience.
The goals of the Center include:
Creating a centralized resource for all SUNY faculty on college teaching including curriculum design, active learning strategies, technology utilization, inclusive excellence, and meaningful assessment of student learning and teaching effectiveness.
Expanding opportunities for faculty development based in theory and scholarship on college teaching.
Supporting curricular design, including but not limited to developing student learning outcomes, assessment, leading the annual teaching and learning conference.
Supporting innovation in design, pedagogy, and delivery including a focus on online teaching.
Encouraging faculty to engage with the scholarship of teaching.
Major Responsibilities
Connect faculty with traditional and emergent scholarships on college teaching by sharing best practice information, organizing workshops and panels, inviting keynote speakers, etc.
Support faculty scholarship and grant development on college teaching by researching and sharing relevant grant opportunities, collaborating with faculty on teaching grants, and collaborating with the Research and Sponsored Programs Office on grant development related to college teaching and learning.
Support curricular design including developing student learning outcomes, assessment, leading the annual teaching and learning conference.
Facilitate a campus consortium on teaching and learning to increase dialogue and integrated planning.
Support innovation in design, pedagogy, and delivery including a focus on online teaching.
Coordinate work of faculty teaching fellows earning extra service for their contributions.
Manage the center budget.
Supervise and mentor the Associate Director, instructional designers, and a shared part-time Administrative Assistant 1.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Collaborative leadership skills and ability to coordinate work among colleagues.
Organizational and planning skills and effective program management.
Knowledge of teaching theory, methods, student learning, and assessment.
Knowledge of a range of educational technologies that support innovative pedagogies.
Demonstrated openness to different viewpoints and ability to communicate sensitive to and respectful of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Able to gain trust of colleagues, show respect for others, value diversity, equity and inclusion, demonstrate honesty and integrity, and uphold others to the same expectations while working on efforts to improve teaching effectiveness.
The successful candidate must be creative, collaborative, flexible, detail-oriented, and thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment.
Ability to lead positive and necessary change and possess flexible interpersonal styles to effectively interact with and develop others.
Demonstrated effective supervisory experience.
Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
Functional and Supervisory Relationships
Reports to Provost.
Supervises the Associate Director for Inclusive Teaching, the Director of the Learning Center, a team of instructional designers (including an Associate Director), and a part-time secretary that supports the Institute and the campus Faculty Development Committee.
Works collaboratively with the Center Advisory Committee.
Required Qualifications
Master’s degree.
5+ years progressively responsible experience in an educational environment which includes leadership responsibilities.
Experience delivering professional development/training and/or teaching in higher education.
Demonstrated technology skills and ability, including the use of a LMS and other educational technology.
Experience teaching at the college level.
Demonstrated effective supervisory experience.
Experience managing a budget.
Preferred Qualifications
A terminal degree or master’s degree with significant progress toward doctorate, especially if in education.
Experience working with teaching and learning center programs.
Demonstrated application of course design principles and practices in a postsecondary environment.
Record of such as professional presentations, grants, or publications in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) or Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER).
Experience teaching in the Brightspace LMS and/or training and otherwise supporting others in using Brightspace.
Experience and demonstrated success in obtaining grant funding.
EEO Statement
The State University of New York at Cortland is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity/Americans with Disabilities Act (AA/EEO/ADA) employer. The university actively seeks applications from women, veterans, individuals with a disability, members of underrepresented groups or anyone that would enrich the diversity of the university.
Job Close Date
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