The Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University (ASU), Phoenix, Arizona (USA), is pleased to invite applications for the position of Watts Endowed Director of the School of Community Resources and Development (SCRD) and Full Professor, with a term commencing no later than July 1, 2025. We are seeking an innovative, engaging leader to advance the strategic vision of this important academic unit. ASU is repeatedly ranked #1 in innovation and for our engagement with international students. This growing, highly regarded institution is known for being ahead of the curve in anticipating and responding to the evolving nature of higher education.
This is a full-time, fiscal-year (12-months), benefits-eligible, tenured administrative appointment. The endowed Directorship comes with $100,000 of annual funding that may be used to advance scholarship or any school related initiatives the director envisions as appropriate. The inaugural Watts Endowed Director will join a talented senior leadership team that works across a variety of disciplines including public policy and administration, social work, criminology, nonprofit leadership and management, sustainable and cultural tourism, parks and recreation, community sports, and emergency management to advance our mission to build more vibrant, health, equitable and sustainable communities.
The School of Community Resources and Development is one of four degree-granting units in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at the Downtown Phoenix campus and one of ASU’s transdisciplinary schools encompassing faculty in several areas of study. The SCRD has more than 600 students studying in a number of our Phoenix (AZ)-based programs with learners being reached globally through online modalities. SCRD’s unifying theme is community development, evinced through several distinctive, yet complementary areas of education and scholarship. The activities of the school’s faculty, staff, and students exemplify the design imperatives of the New American University through our unifying theme, with each program contributing to SCRD’s vision to advance healthy, resilient, and sustainable communities that amplify its core mission to promote community wellbeing. Nonprofit leadership and management programs at undergraduate, graduate and continuing and professional education levels are a distinction of SCRD. Additionally, the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation is a key asset within Watts College and SCRD.
The initial application deadline is December 10, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. Arizona Time. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they are received until the position is filled. Please direct all questions about the position to the search committee chair, Beth Huebner, at Beth.Huebner@asu.edu
For a more detailed position description and full application details, see: https://apply.interfolio.com/158909