(NAME-MCE) Associate Provost and Dean for Faculty Diversity and Support Barnard College New York NY

[Anselmo Villanueva]

Associate Provost and Dean for Faculty Diversity and Support

Barnard College-Office of the Provost invites application and
nominations for the Associate Provost and Dean for Faculty Diversity
and Support who will assume leadership responsibility for programs
that facilitate the development of the Barnard faculty. Such
activities include working with chairs and program directors to
recruit and retain a diverse faculty, organizing new faculty
orientation and junior faculty support, chairing the Faculty Grants
Committee, and, in conjunction with the Provost and the Director of
Institutional Support, initiating and supervising projects that
support faculty development and curricular innovation. The Associate
Provost also assumes leadership responsibility for institutional
organization of accreditation reports, and, working with the Provost,
Assistant Provost and the Institutional Research Analyst, for
institutional assessment planning.

Additional Qualifications:
Qualifications include: Ph.D. in a liberal arts discipline;
significant experience as a tenured faculty member in leadership
roles, e.g. department or program chair, appointed and elected
college-wide committees, or ten or more years of senior-level academic
management experience; knowledge about successful programs to recruit
and retain a diverse faculty (experience in leading such programs
preferred); demonstrated capabilities to represent the Provost
effectively in senior management situations; excellent communication
skills, oral and written; strong computer skills for data management
and analysis; ability to multitask, absorb detail while maintaining
vision and establishing priorities; utmost discretion in dealing with
confidential information; ability to be flexible and to work both
independently and cooperatively; expertise in programmatic or
institutional assessment preferred.

Guidelines for Applying:
Please forward a cover letter relating prior experience to job
description and addressing the challenges of the scholar-teacher in a
liberal arts college, a c.v., and the names and contact information of
three professional references to: Associate Provost Search, Office of
the Provost, Barnard College, New York, NY 10027. Fax: 212-854-2454.

Application Deadline: May 6, 2008. Review of applications will begin
on April 2, 2008.

Contact: HR at Barnard.edu, http://www.idealist.org/en/job/268592-60