Senior Executive Director And Professor (Full Or Advanced Associate Professor) - University At Albany

Job Description:

The School of Criminal Justice is excited to announce the search for our next leader. We invite applications for the School's Senior Executive Director (SED) at the academic rank of Full Professor; advanced Associates will also be considered. The position will begin July 1, 2024. The start date is negotiable, but no later than August 15, 2024. The SED is responsible for the leadership, vision, and oversight of all aspects of the School's research, teaching, service, and community engagement mission and operations. We seek a world-renowned scholar with an active and productive program of research coupled with a record of accomplishment as a visionary leader and consensus builder. This is an exciting opportunity to lead an internationally recognized program into a new era of influence and impact.

The School of Criminal Justice is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary institute for the study of crime and the criminal justice system. We were the first Ph.D. program in criminal justice in the United States, celebrating our 50-year anniversary in 2018. Our programs have consistently been ranked near the top by US News & World Report and College Factual. We have a strong core of faculty across all ranks who are leading experts on public opinion and crime, community violence prevention, offender and criminal justice actor decision-making, queer criminology, cross-national crime, policing, and public criminology. Our faculty and students engage in community and agency-oriented research on pressing criminal justice issues, and we have extensive experience evaluating criminal justice programs, policies, and practices. While we are most interested in identifying a Senior Executive Director with strong leadership qualities, we are also seeking a distinguished scholar-teacher committed to undergraduate and graduate education, the mentoring of doctoral students and junior faculty, and service to the School, University, community, and profession.

The primary responsibilities of the Senior Executive Director include:

• Strategic planning and implementation

• Fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and productive environment

• Elevating the academic and research profile of the School

• Ensuring curriculum quality and developing new academic programs

• Improving student recruitment, enrollment, retention, and success

• Advancing faculty hiring, tenure, and promotion

• Enhancing faculty support and development

• Overseeing instructor and staff recruitment, hiring, and retention

• Growing the School's research and external funding portfolio, including building research collaborations across the College, UAlbany, and with external partners

• Promoting community engagement

• Directing marketing and communications for the School

• Developing and maintaining external relationships

• Fundraising and development

• Alumni engagement and relations

• Representing the School internally and externally

• Budget development and financial decision-making

• Collaborating with the Rockefeller College Dean and leadership to advance the mission and goals of the School and College

This is a tenured, benefits-eligible faculty appointment with expectation of 12-month obligation for the administrative duties associated with the SED position. The SED will work closely with and report to the Dean of Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and is part of the College's leadership team.

Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Ph.D. in criminology, criminal justice, or related discipline (e.g., sociology, psychology, political science, economics), from a college or university accredited by a U.S. Department of Education or internationally recognized accrediting organization

• Academic rank of advanced associate professor or higher - or - a record of scholarly research, publications, and professional accomplishment that merits appointment as full or advanced associate professor with tenure

• Academic administrative experience

• Applicants must demonstrate an ability to develop inclusive and equitable relationships within our diverse campus community

• Applicants must demonstrate an ability to support diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and belonging relative to their role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current or prior faculty rank of full professor or higher

• Two or more years of administrative experience with promoting scholarship and external funding, academic program development, management and supervision, developing and managing budgets

• Record of externally funded research

• Ability to teach relevant undergraduate and graduate courses

• Ability to mentor graduate and undergraduate students

Additional Information:

Professional Rank and Salary Range: Full or Advanced Associate Professor, $130,000-$175,000

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Application Instructions:

Applicants MUST submit the following documents:

• CV

• Statement of Interest

• Research Statement

• Teaching Statement

• Cover letter stating all the required minimum qualifications and any of the applicable preferred qualifications.

• Contact information for three references

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A review of applications will start on January 16, 2024 and the search will remain open until the position is filled.