Employment Type: Permanent Faculty

Vacancy ID: FAC0005190

Salary Range: Dependent on experience and qualifications

Position Summary/Description:

The Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking an innovative and experienced faculty member to join our top-ranked program as Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs.

This is a nine-month service period permanent faculty position at the rank of tenured full professor with a secondary at-will administrative appointment in the school. The position carries the possibility of additional work assignments for pay during the summer months, depending on need, although summer work is not guaranteed.

The Senior Associate Dean will play a pivotal role in advancing the academic culture of the school by leading change and overseeing efforts to support school reviews and accreditation, faculty growth and development, strengthening existing academic programs and developing new programs, and ensuring the school remains innovative and impactful.

The Senior Associate Dean provides policy interpretation and oversight of academic administration processes for both permanent and temporary faculty, serving as senior advisor to the Dean on matters related to faculty hiring and retention, faculty performance and promotion reviews, onboarding and orientation, monitoring of faculty workloads and effort, and faculty leadership and career development. Representing the Dean at designated school and university meetings, the Senior Associate Dean works jointly with the school’s associate/assistant deans and other university and school leaders not only to enhance and foster synergy among the school’s academic, research, and professional programs, but also to identify potential synergy with other departments and disciplines.

The Senior Associate Dean oversees the development and implementation of academic and other school-wide initiatives; faculty personnel policies, procedures, and assigned workload responsibilities; assessment of student experiences, learning outcomes, and teaching quality; and faculty engagement, mentoring, and professional development.

Given the tasks and responsibilities associated with the position, the Senior Associate Dean is expected to have a limited teaching load in an area relevant to one or more of our school’s programmatic areas, which include: undergraduate majors in advertising and public relations or journalism and certificates in health, sports, fashion, and political communication; master’s concentrations in journalism, strategic communication, theory and research, and digital communication; and/or doctoral concentrations in media processes and production, legal and regulatory issues in communication, media uses and effects, health communication, and political, social, and strategic communication. The successful candidate’s experience and expertise will determine whether the faculty appointment is on the research tenure track (body of academic research with scholarly output) or professional tenure track (body of creative / professional work and output).