Application Deadline: May 25, 2026 by 11:59 pm
Description
The Dean’s Office Leadership Fellows program offers participants the opportunity to contribute alongside the Dean’s Office team to work that governs operations in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS).
This year we have one fellowship opening in Faculty Affairs and Advancement.
Fellows in the program develop skills and gain administrative experience in the day-to-day working and decision-making processes of a diverse college. They will make impactful contributions in strategic areas, develop their knowledge of current and emerging challenges in higher education, assess their interest in university administration, and become better prepared for administrative roles while developing expertise in one or more content areas.
The Faculty Affairs and Advancement Fellow will co-lead and lead projects in areas aligned with the SBS Strategic Plan. They will receive bi-weekly mentorship with the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Advancement and attend one “Dean's meeting” per month to report on their progress.
The Faculty Affairs and Advancement Fellow will engage in projects related to:
Work climate and AI areas of growth in the College. Assist the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Advancement on college efforts around improving workplace climate and facilitating interested faculty in engaging in the opportunities and challenges in our academic landscape related to AI.
This opportunity is open to full-time, promoted faculty (associate level and above) in SBS with a minimum of 5 years of full-time service accrued (or promoted at least once in the College), by the beginning of the academic year of their Fellow appointment. The Faculty Affairs and Advancement area is open to career-track, tenure-track, and continuing-status faculty.
One Fellow will be selected based on demonstrated ability or potential to:
- provide collaborative and aspirational leadership,
- contribute to initiatives and projects of institutional importance in alignment with the Strategic Plan,
- work effectively across differences, and
- contextualize their work through a broad institutional perspective.
Prior leadership, shared governance, or service experience is preferred but not required.
The Fellow will retain their academic unit home and have partial administrative assignments that span a full academic year and begin in the fall term. Fellows will be required to commit up to 20% of their annual effort for this assignment (typically 10% of service or research and 10% of teaching), with specific arrangements to be negotiated on an individual basis. Active department heads and directors are not eligible.
The Dean's Office will collaborate with the Fellow's home academic unit to provide support for instructional needs necessitated by the appointment.
The fellow also will receive $3,000, which may be taken as a stipend or as professional development support.
Apply through Arizona Cultivate. Application components include:
- An online application form
- Current CV (PDF upload, no page limit)
- A 750-word statement on why you would like to be selected as a Fellow and your suitability to the position (PDF upload)
- Head/Director approval form (see supplemental documents). Note: the applicant must upload the signed PDF form to Arizona Cultivate before the application can be submitted.
- Contact information for an additional reference (no letter required).
Applications are due by Monday, May 25, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. The Fellow ill be named in June.
Questions regarding the Fellowship? Please contact the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Advancement.
For questions, please contact Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Advancement, Jeannine Relly (jrelly@arizona.edu).