Application Deadline: February 3, 2025 by 11:59 pm
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.
Participants will develop leadership 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.
All Fellows will lead projects in areas aligned with the SBS Strategic Plan. They will receive bi-weekly mentorship with an Associate Dean or the Dean and attend one “Dean’s meeting” per month to report on their progress.
Each Fellow will engage in one of the following four areas of work under the mentorship of, and in collaboration with, a member of the Dean’s leadership team:
- Collaborative Learning Teams. Assist the Dean in building external relationships in support of collaborative learning teams. Collaborative learning teams bring groups of students together under the mentorship of faculty in a group-internship type environment. The Fellow will help solicit partners, recruit and train faculty, and develop assessment tools for the projects.
- Assessment. Assist the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Success with SBS program assessment. The Fellow will establish support for program-level assessments for units in SBS. This effort will include tapping university partners like UCATT as well as gaining familiarity with accreditation and best practices in assessment.
- Research Impact. Assist the Associate Dean for Research, in collaboration with the Executive Director for Marketing and Communication, in measuring, documenting, and communicating the societal impacts of research across SBS. This effort will be grounded in holistic approaches to research impact (e.g. RII’s Research Impacts Project). The Fellow will focus on two SBS research themes (TBD in consultation with selected Fellow).
Inclusion and Climate. Assist the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Inclusion on college efforts around improving workplace climate and inclusion in hiring practices. The Fellow will use college results from the university climate survey in addition to the SBS DEI report to guide projects related to inclusive hiring practices and develop programming around inclusive workplace cultures.
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 by the beginning of the academic year of their Fellow appointment. The Collaborative Learning area and Assessment area are open to career-track, tenure-track, and continuing-status faculty. The Research Impact area and Inclusion and Climate area are limited to tenure-track and continuing-status faculty.
A maximum of four Fellows will be selected based on their 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.
Fellows 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 each Fellow’s home academic unit to provide support for instructional needs necessitated by the appointment.
Each fellow will also receive $3,000, which may be taken as a stipend or as professional development support.
Apply online through Arizona Cultivate, SBS’s competition management portal. If interested in more than one area of work, please submit an independent application for each area.
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 (available in Arizona Cultivate). 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 is required)
Applications are due by February 3, 2025 by 11:59 pm. Fellows will be named by March 3, 2025.
For questions, please contact Dean Lori Poloni-Staudinger (lorips@arizona.edu)