City University of New York - Graduate Center
Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives (Academic Program Director)
Institution Type: | College / University |
Location: | New York, United States |
Position: | Administrator |
Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives (Academic Program Director)
Job ID: 12661
Compensation: Commensurate with experience and qualifications
Closing Date: May 21, 2015
Campus Specific Information:
The Graduate Center (GC) defines the standard of contemporary graduate education: rigorous academic training and globally significant research. lt is recognized for outstanding scholarship across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and is integral to the intellectual and cultural vitality of New York City. Through its extensive public programs, The Graduate Center hosts a wide range of events - lectures, conferences, book discussions, art exhibits, concerts, and dance and theater that enrich and inform.
The Graduate Center has been heavily engaged in digital humanities work. The school builds community platforms, visualizes cultural patterns in social media, focuses on new forms of scholarly engagement, creates innovative ways to access digital humanities tools, explores new forms of the book, hosts a digital humanities speaker series, encourages doctoral students integrate technology and pedagogy, and collaborates with digital fellows on a range of exciting range of digital projects.
The Graduate Center seeks a Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives to expand a growing set of digital projects at the school aimed at fostering new work that integrates computational tools and methods into the core research and teaching missions of the institution.
Based in the Provost's Office and reporting to the Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, the Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives will join an institution with strong support for digital work and will be part of an enthusiastic and collaborative community of faculty members, graduate students, and staff working together to explore new digital humanities projects and opportunities.
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Directs the preparation and submission of 2-3 new grant proposals per year, and to maintain the management of successfully funded projects;
- Directs administration of the GC Digital Praxis Seminar, which introduces new doctoral and master's students at the GC to digital humanities texts, projects, and practices;
- Works with the GC Digital Fellows Program and the Provost's Digital Innovation Grants program, directing the arrangement of workshops and training sessions to help students improve their skills;
- Manages the GC Digital Scholarship Lab and related equipment;
- Serves as a liaison to academic programs, centers, and institutes partnered with GC Digital Initiatives;
-Directs initiatives associated with digital projects that are part of the Graduate Center's Performance Management Process.
General Duties:
- Directs curriculum development and operations of a College's specialized academic program under executive oversight.
- Designs, implements and monitors a comprehensive academic program development plan
- Administers all curricular, administrative, and financial aspects of the program
- Oversees program evaluation efforts and creates strategic plan to further develop program offerings
- Manages annual budget; develops proposals and other initiatives for expanded program support
- Cultivates and maintains strategic partnerships; serves as primary liaison to faculty and administrators to plan and execute programming activities
- May participate in faculty recruitment efforts
- Manages professional and clerical staff \- Performs related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree and eight years' relevant experience required.
Other Qualifications:
A preferred candidate should have:
- Extensive experience building and engaging communities around digital projects
- Experience working in a higher education institution
- Ph.D. degree in area(s) within the humanities and social sciences
- Past success working collaboratively in interdisciplinary environments
- Extensive project management experience
- Experience with a technical area of digital humanities, such as data visualization, text analysis, digital pedagogy, geospatial humanities, data curation, network analysis, or scholarly communication
- In depth familiarity with the most recent scholarship in the digital humanities
- Extensive experience with grant writing and management including financial and activity reporting
- Ability to monitor grants, budget, and expenditures to ensure that targets are met
- Two years of supervisory experience including handling personnel and recruitment actions
- A commitment to open-source code, open-access scholarship, and public education
Contact: |
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Website: | None |
Primary Category: | None |
Secondary Categories: | None |
Posting Date: | 04/30/2015 |
Closing Date | 07/27/2015 |