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Job Description:

Networking and Outreach

• Serves as a resource to identify AALANA and women candidates for consideration for faculty openings across the various colleges at RIT, including 
•  and post-terminal degree candidates as appropriate.
• Collaborates, as needed, with the Division of Diversity and Inclusion Marketing Team to develop marketing assets, website information and outreach specifically targeting AALANA and women recruitment efforts
• s and attends seminars, conferences and association meetings with the specific purpose of developing pipelines of AALANA and women candidates and/or identifying AALANA and women candidates for consideration and placement at RIT.

Office of Faculty Diversity and Recruitment

• Provides fiscal and administrative oversight regarding annual budget development and reporting.
• Oversees day-to-day budget management
• s administrative and program staff
• s and refines a comprehensive vision of campus faculty diversity and generate long and short-range goals, strategies, and structures to attract, promote and retain faculty
• s strategic planning and influences policy development
• s in research and formulation of policies impacting institution’s recruitment and retention of faculty
• s with deans, academic faculty senate and other groups to encourage collaborative and cross-institutional faculty orientation, mentoring and development programs as requested.

Future Faculty Career Exploration Program (FFCEP)

• Offers a three and a half day, all-expense paid, professional career development and talent acquisition program that may serve as a bridge into the professoriate for historically underrepresented faculty of color (AALANA) and women.
• Informs a vast number of faculty of color and  students of color about the program to enable discovery of the brightest talent while at the same time discovering the unique multicultural experiences of the Rochester community
• s with deans of the colleges within the university who engage future faculty participants in discussions about their academic work and career interests
• s a platform for the faculty to share RIT’s teaching and research agenda and to dialogue on current open and anticipated faculty positions.

External relations, partnership development engagement

• Represents the University in discussions of faculty and institutional diversity in the national higher education community; participate in outreach programs to engage diverse local, state, and regional communities and partnerships.
• Develops on-going working relationships with outside universities and associations that graduate and support  of AALANA and women  candidates in order to ensure they are presented for review by search committees for current and future openings, with an emphasis on tenure track opportunities.

Faculty Affairs

• Brokers credible external education for academic faculty search  engages in active recruiting best practices to broaden faculty applicant pools,  and works to increase retention within underrepresented populations of minorities and women.
• Oversees and monitors the NTID Faculty Recruitment position and engages in overall collaboration with the NTID Office of Diversity and Inclusion
• Oversees the Request for Proposal process for RIT Future Faculty Fellowship program, which is an extension of the FFCEP initiative, and supports marketing and outreach for applications; supports recommendations for professional development plans.
• Supports development and administering of the annual New Faculty Orientation and  Mentoring Program and other career development programs.

Provide support to the AALANA Faculty Advisory Council (AFAC), the Faculty Associate for AALANA Faculty and the Faculty Associate for Women Faculty

• Researches in the field of best practices and education.
• Serves as diversity advocate to tenure and promotion committees
• s of network opportunities for seed and grant monies and other means that can help effect change where needed
• s with deans and associate deans to ensure that the faculty expectations are clear for the faculty.

Manage partnership with nine colleges and two Centers’ College Liaisons who serve as deans’ designees in directing department faculty diversity and search committee process:

• Serves as diversity advocate by ensuring equity and fairness are demonstrated throughout the search committee process.
• Develops a comprehensive set of recruitment documents that include information about RIT and our commitment to diversity and pluralism; provides  of faculty research activities, grant and contract funding received by all faculty
• t opportunities available for departmental peer mentoring and collaborative opportunities, and list articles and information featuring historically underrepresented faculty and their success, serving as a marketing tool for prospects.
• Coordinates college efforts regarding AALANA and women outreach activities including the annual FFCEP, Future Faculty Fellows and Operation Outreach.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in higher education administration, communication, leadership or related field required; doctoral degree preferred.
• 5-10 years of experience working successfully and increasingly responsible experience at a senior level in higher education.
• A distinguished record of experience as a leader, advocate, change agent in  setting
• e in faculty affairs and faculty development.
• Working knowledge of AA/EEO -requirements
• Demonstrated experience working with multiple internal and external constituencies in setting agendas and implementing alliances.
• Extensive travel is required at 40-50%.

Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with both faculty members and administrators.
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit
• e interpersonal skills, including diplomacy, discretion, and tact
• d experience building relationships and leading teams
• e of major academic and diversity issues facing universities, and a strong vision for and commitment to diversity endeavors in a large, private research university.