Urgently Require Assistant Center Director and Lecturer in Gainesville, FL

Job title: Assistant Center Director and Lecturer
Company: University of Florida
Job description: Classification Title:

AST PRG DIR & LECTURER
Job Description:

Assistant Center Director and Lecturer

Position: Full-time, 12 month, promotion accruing faculty position (non-tenure accruing)

Date of Expected Hire: As soon as possible with a preference for before August 1, 2024

Salary: $75,000-$80,000 with a comprehensive and highly competitive leave and benefits package

In addition to your salary, the University of Florida (UF) offers low cost plans, a number of Dental plans to fit you and your family's needs, and Vision. Domestic partner coverage through GatorCare is also available. Optional plans such as life, disability, legal and accident insurance are also available. Explore UF's plethora of benefit options here:

The Center for Arts in Medicine in the College of the Arts seeks an Assistant Center Director and Lecturer. The position will include administration in the capacity of assistant center director, teaching in the Center's undergraduate and/or graduate programs, and research (broadly defined to include a range of forms of research, creative activity, or clinical practice in arts in health). The successful candidate will have extensive experience in, understanding of and a passion for administrative leadership in some combination of business, higher education, health, or community arts administration with an academic background that aligns with the Center's work in arts in health and community engaged arts practice.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will prepare students to access and unsettle centers of power in a radically changing world. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for equity on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty, seeking faculty of all races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

Responsibilities:

• Provide significant assistance to the director with oversight of academic program and operations budgets
• Assist the director in the establishment of equitable and effective strategies, policies and procedures that support achievement of the Center's strategic plan, tracking and documenting progress on the strategic plan
• Oversee the Center's graduate student recruitment enterprise
• Oversee teaching assignments, course scheduling and effort reporting for all faculty, in collaboration with the administrative specialist and director
• Oversee and coordinate SLO (Student Learning Outcomes) assessment and reporting for graduate and undergraduate programs
• Pedagogical mentorship of Center faculty
• Liaison with the UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine program regarding academic and research operations
• Work with the undergraduate and graduate curriculum coordinators, faculty and staff to ensure excellence and equity in the learning experience for our students, coordinate across curricula, identify and address curricular issues, and establish and implement well defined, effective roles, deliverables and metrics
• Report to the director on a weekly basis, meet with faculty members monthly, and meet bi-weekly with the Marketing, Admissions and Students Services team
• Represent the Center at COTA Executive Committee and other college or university meetings when the director is not able to attend
• Assist the director with overall operations and communications
• Teach undergraduate and graduate coursework in the MA in Arts in Medicine, graduate certificate, and/or undergraduate certificate programs as assigned

Location and Schedule:

Normal working hours are Monday through Friday 8am - 5pm

This position will be a remote hybrid between UF's main campus and a remote location. Remote schedule will be negotiable upon hire.

CENTER FOR ARTS IN MEDICINE: Housed in the College of the Arts, the Center for Arts in Medicine (CAM) is committed to advancing research, education, and practice in the arts in health, locally and globally. The Center facilitates research, education, and training in the use of the arts to enhance health in healthcare and public health contexts. The Center provides a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration among University of Florida faculty and students, healthcare providers, clinical artists, and our local and global communities. The Center develops and effects interdisciplinary research studies through its two research labs, and educational curricula on all levels. The Center serves as a national model for the arts in health research, education, and training. The Center provides certificate and degree programs, including MA and graduate certificates in Arts in Medicine and Arts in Public Health, and undergraduate certificates across disciplines. For more information, visit .

THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: The mission of the College of the Arts is to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. We achieve the university's mission by training professionals and educating students as artists and scholars, while developing their capacities for critical study, creative practice, and provocation. The College offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. Approximately 1,700 students are pursuing majors in degrees offered by the College of the Arts under the direction of 130 faculty members in its three accredited schools- the School of Art + Art History, the School of Music, and the School of Theatre + Dance, and in the Center for Arts in Medicine, the Digital Worlds Institute, and the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship. In addition, the college comprises the University Galleries, and the University level of the New World School of the Arts in Miami.

The University of Florida: The University of Florida is a comprehensive learning institution built on a land grant foundation, ranked one of the top five best public universities in the nation in U.S. News & World Report. We are The Gator Nation, a diverse community dedicated to excellence in education and research and shaping a better future for Florida, the nation and the world. Our mission is to enable our students to lead and influence the next generation and beyond for economic, cultural and societal benefit. UF is a graduate research institution with more than 50,000 students and membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. Gainesville, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation's most livable cities, is located midway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Together, the University and the community comprise the educational, medical and cultural center of North Central Florida, with outstanding resources such as the University of Florida Performing Arts (Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the Squitieri Studio Theatre, the Baughman Center, University Auditorium), the Harn Museum of Art, the Florida Museum of Natural History and in the community, the Hippodrome State Theatre and Dance Alive National Ballet.
Expected Salary:

$75,000-$80,000 with a comprehensive and highly competitive leave and benefits package

In addition to your salary, the University of Florida (UF) offers low cost plans, a number of Dental plans to fit you and your family's needs, and Vision. Domestic partner coverage through GatorCare is also available. Optional plans such as life, disability, legal and accident insurance are also available. Explore UF's plethora of benefit options here:
Minimum Requirements:

• A terminal degree or equivalent professional experience in arts in health or a field closely related arts in health such as community engaged arts practice, Creative Arts Therapies, Public Health, Arts Administration or Arts Education.
• At least 3 years administrative leadership experience.
• At least 3 years of teaching experience beyond graduate teaching assistantship at the university level
• Evidence of success in promoting an environment that advances pluralism, curiosity, viewpoint diversity, open intellectual discourse, and the well-being of all in the context of cultural and ideological difference.
• Evidence of successful grant writing experience and fiscal management responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

The successful candidate will bring to the position:

• Demonstrated capacity for effective engagement in student recruitment.
• Capacity and passion for navigating the logistics and mechanics of getting work done in a complex, compliance-driven public research institution.
• Evidence of successful grant writing experience and fiscal management at a higher education level
• 5+ years of teaching experience beyond graduate teaching assistantship at the university level.
• 5+ years administrative leadership experience in arts in health (in healthcare, public health or community contexts) or the creative arts therapies (practice and/or research).
• Demonstrated aptitude for working toward structural and strategic change, particularly in relationship to access, equity, and inclusion across academic, health and/or community settings.
• Evidence of online teaching.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until an applicant pool is established. To ensure full consideration, all application documents must be submitted by October 15, 2023. Applications received after this date may be considered at the discretion of the committee and/or hiring authority.

Application Process: Applications must be submitted via the University of Florida's online application system. Online applications must include the following: (1) a detailed letter of application that explains how you match the particular qualifications of this position and how your work and perspective will contribute to and enhance our transformative community; (2) a curriculum vitae highlighting administrative experience and strengths; and (3) names and contact information of three professional references. The Search Committee may request additional materials at a later time.

Inquiries may be sent to:
Tina Mullen
Chair, AD & Lecturer Search
Email:

The selected candidate will be required to provide an official transcript to the hiring department upon hire. A transcript will not be considered ?official? if a designation of ?Issued to Student? is visible. Degrees earned from an educational institution outside of the United States are required to be evaluated by a professional credentialing service provider approved by National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).

If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call +1 (352) 392- 2477or the Florida Relay System at +1 (800) 955-8771 (TDD). Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the US. Searches are conducted in accordance with Florida's Sunshine Law.
Health Assessment Required: No

Advertised: 19 Sep 2023 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close:
Expected salary: $75000 - 80000 per year
Location: Gainesville, FL

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