University of Utah Financial Services ยท 4 months ago
Director of Honors Learning Communities and Open Rank Professor (Lecturer) Faculty
Salt Lake City, UT
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/StaffThe University of Utah is seeking a core faculty member for the Honors College to direct Honors learning communities and teach interdisciplinary seminars. This role involves managing student-focused programming and ensuring successful completion of the Honors degree for over 2,400 students.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Directing Honors learning communities
Teaching a 2/2 course load
Ensuring coordination across all learning communities activities inside and outside the Honors College
Developing/expanding communities for 2nd through 4th year students
Supervision of learning communities staff
Developing and implementing programming for thesis support in 3rd and 4th year communities
Teaching interdisciplinary Honors seminars
Teaching courses in research related writing that supports students in writing their theses
Qualification
Required
A STEM or quantitative social sciences Ph.D. is required
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. before the position start date
Candidates must be able to teach varied interdisciplinary seminars to students in all majors
Candidates must be successful teachers, creative in their pedagogy and dedicated to wholistic student mentorship
Successful candidates will have prior experience with student success programming (both curricular and/or co-curricular)
Previous managerial or supervisory experience of full-time staff and student leaders
Demonstrated excellent communication and collaboration abilities in prior roles
Preferred
Experience in mentoring undergraduate scholarly and creative work is also valued
Comfortable with and excited about the opportunity to teach research-related writing courses for students writing a thesis in STEM fields
An unedited set of teaching evaluations for the courses with syllabi submitted, if available
Benefits
Competitive salaries
Outstanding benefits
Company
University of Utah Financial Services
Financial Services at the University of Utah is your partner in financial success.
Founded in 1850
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
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