Assistant/Associate Director of Teaching & Educational Innovation

University of Virginia; Charlottesville (VA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Virginia’s Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) seeks an Assistant Director or Associate Director to expand capacity in STEM education, AI in teaching, graduate student development, and experiential education. This non-tenure track role reports to the Executive Director and supports instructors and units through consultations, program development, and assessment.

The AD will build cross-school partnerships, advance scholarship and assessment in mutual areas, and teach one

Qualifications

• Terminal degree in any field.
• Minimum of 3 years of work in educational development, instructional development, or closely related role in higher education.
• Experience designing, implementing, and leading instructional development programming at the school or university level, including communities of practice, faculty learning communities, or multi-day institutes.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with faculty, graduate students, academic units, and schools across disciplines.
• A record of education research, Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), Discipline-based Education Research (DBER), or Scholarship of Educational Development (SoEd) research, or program assessment, in areas of mutual interest.
• A record of successful teaching in a higher education setting and ability to teach annually in their disciplinary area.
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to build and maintain collaborative partnerships.
• Ability to work independently and as a part of a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

• support instructors and academic units through consultations, program development, and assessment
• build and sustain cross-school partnerships and contribute to university-level conversations and initiatives in STEM education, AI in teaching and learning, graduate student education, and/or experiential education.
• expand the CTE’s scholarship and assessment work in areas of mutual interest.
• teach annually in their disciplinary area of expertise, in keeping with the CTE’s teaching mission.

Skills

Written communication

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration

Education

Terminal degree

3+ years in educational development

Job description

The University of Virginia’s Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) seeks an Assistant Director or Associate Director to expand capacity in STEM education, AI in teaching, graduate student development, and experiential education. This non-tenure track role reports to the Executive Director and supports instructors and units through consultations, program development, and assessment.

The AD will build cross-school partnerships, advance scholarship and assessment in mutual areas, and teach one