Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Freelance

Position Title

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs

Position Summary

The Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs is a thought leader and partner with the Provost and manager of the Office of Faculty Affairs. Because academic affairs, faculty life, and student learning lie at the heart of the Spelman College ecosystem, as well as influence and impact Spelman’s partnerships and alliances, the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs is a necessary member of the Provost’s leadership team. The Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs plays a central role leading and managing all processes related to faculty development and advancement, including recruitment, retention, and is an active liaison between faculty and administration.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves as liaison with staff, executives, senior leaders, and the Provost regarding College climate, faculty and staff employee well-being, project updates, proposals, and planning.
• Collaborates with department leaders, and performs administrative tasks such as managing calendars, generating correspondence, maintaining hard copies and electronic files, planning, and coordinating annual corporate meetings, and scheduling facilities.
• Oversees and manages the daily operations within the Office of Faculty Affairs, and manages all aspects of faculty recruitment, hiring, and retention.
• Advises the Provost on salary and stipend recommendations for new hires and existing faculty.

Strategic Initiatives related to Faculty

• Provides leadership, vision, and long-range priorities throughout the Office of the Provost to meet the needs of the students, faculty, and staff.
• Assists the Provost on the advancement of the College’s strategic goals.

Faculty Recruitment and Retention

• Works collaboratively with the Office of Human Resources with new hires, including documentation and onboarding, and collaborates to address and resolve all employee concerns.
• Oversees the onboarding of new faculty members via the New Faculty Orientation and related efforts.
• Develops and advises the Provost on the best and innovative practices for faculty recruitment, retention, grievances, annual evaluations, promotion and tenure.
• Uses data-orientated tools to manage and track faculty positions at all levels.
• Ensures the timeliness of appointments and annual contracts for faculty.

Faculty Development and Advancement

• Coordinates institution-wide faculty development efforts that ensure a consistent, thoughtful, and accessible suite of resources available to faculty at all stages in their career.
• Manages the Teaching Research and Resource Center that oversees the development and implementation of best teaching practices across all available course modalities.
• Develops, implements and oversees faculty awards; Provost Fellowship Program and other mentoring initiatives; new faculty programming and developing Faculty Development Grant Committee and Faculty Development Leave Committee; and oversees the programs related to faculty transitions.
• Serves as chair of the Sabbatical Committee and manages the sabbatical leave process.

Faculty Affairs

Works with the Faculty Council and the Faculty Standing Committees to ensure consistent interpretation and application of the Faculty Handbook and participate in conversations regarding recommended changes.

• Leads the tenure and promotion processes for the Office of the Provost and serves as a resource on tenure and promotion issues.
• Works across the College to develop, review, and revise college policies related to Academic Affairs.
• Collects, organizes, and analyzes faculty data needed to support internal decision-making.
• Serves as the point of contact/liaison for faculty grievances and faculty appeals.
• Monitors faculty engagement, workload (releases and policy enforcement) as well as small course enrollment reporting to advise the Provost regarding efficiencies and improvements to the allocation of faculty time and effort. Communicates workload reports with individual departments and key institutional stakeholders.
• Recommends approvals such as chair appointments, emeriti requests, and faculty leaves, according to written policies.
• Acts as an impartial intermediary for faculty on professional matters.

Required Qualifications

Ph.D., Ed.D., or relevant terminal academic degree from an accredited institution, with rank as a tenured faculty member is required. Five or more years of experience in administrative leadership (department chair, division chair, dean, administrative roles such as directors and program chairs) is also required.

Other requirements include: the ability to exercise sound judgement, tact, discretion, and integrity with sensitive and confidential information; demonstrated capacity for influential leadership with a proven record of accomplishment of innovation, creativity, and best practices; demonstrated skill and comfort with data analysis and its use in tracking and communicating success; and the ability to identify, uncover, and remedy inequitable policies and practices.

Candidates should also demonstrate a policy and data-driven orientation to problem solving, have experience in organizing and directing multiple projects; show the ability to problem solve and adapt to and initiate change; demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills; and have familiarity with tools related to tracking and managing faculty life and human resources management (PeopleAdmin; Workday; Interfolio).

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated significant academic leadership and experience with undergraduate curriculum, program review, and assessment of student learning, and management of the undergraduate education process.
• Demonstrated commitment to working in a highly collaborative and transparent manner in partnership with academic and administrative leaders through participatory management, shared governance, and teamwork.
• Engagement with and connection to national initiatives and trends related to undergraduate education, student success, high-impact practices, assessment of learning, and curriculum.

Certifications, Licenses, Restrictions

None

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit, walk, use hands to handle office supplies, operate computer and other office equipment, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to: stand, reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to: climb, and lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus.

Full Time/Part Time: Full-Time 12 month

Work Location/Schedule

This position requires onsite work and is not eligible for remote work.

Posting Number: SC0741P

Posting Closing Date

11/29/2024

Open Until Filled: No

COVID-19 Vaccination Protocol

Due to the heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 and the spread of variants, Spelman College strongly recommends that faculty, staff, and students receive a COVID-19 vaccine and adhere to all health and safety guidelines.

If you have any questions please contact: Yemi Brown, PharmD Manager of COVID-19 Operations, at ibiyemibrown@spelman.edu