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About the Role

The Associate Provost, Academic and Faculty Excellence provides leadership for academic quality, curriculum, and academic policy. This role also leads the Center for Faculty Excellence, designing programming to advance instructional quality, curricular innovation, scholarly productivity, and inclusive pedagogy for full-time and adjunct faculty. The incumbent serves as Acting Provost in times of need.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a resource to deans and department chairs on faculty policy interpretation and application.
• Manage faculty workload policy, course releases, and overload processes.
• Administer faculty awards, recognition programs, and internal grant competitions.
• Serve as a point of contact for faculty questions about academic policy and process.
• Direct grievances, appeals, and complaints arising from personnel decisions to appropriate bodies.
• Chair the General Education and Curriculum Committees of the Academic Senate.
• Liaise with Libraries, Information Technology Systems, Student Engagement and Development, and other units on academic concerns.
• Represent the Office of the Provost on university committees, task forces, and governance bodies.
• Serve as Acting Provost as needed.
• Lead and set the strategic direction of the Center for Faculty Excellence.
• Lead, supervise, and develop Center staff.
• Design and deliver faculty development programming for full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty.
• Design and administer new faculty onboarding and orientation.
• Coordinate university-wide faculty mentoring efforts.
• Provide confidential consultation on teaching, including classroom observation and course design review.
• Advance evidence-based, inclusive, and learner-centered teaching practice.
• Support faculty engagement with emerging instructional technologies, including AI in teaching and learning.
• Support faculty research and scholarly development.
• Provide support for portfolio preparation for faculty reappointment, promotion, or tenure.
• Partner with various university units to deliver coherent support to faculty.
• Establish and report on measures of the Center's reach, quality, and impact.
• Manage the Center's budget and resources.
• Pursue external funding where appropriate.
• Represent the university in regional and national educational development networks.

Requirements

• Doctorate or terminal degree.
• A record of teaching, scholarship, and service sufficient for appointment with tenure at the rank of associate professor or professor.
• Successful and demonstrated experience with faculty development.
• Knowledge and experience with policy, curriculum, and contracts.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with and earn the trust of faculty and administrators.
• Working knowledge of faculty personnel processes, including reappointment, promotion, and tenure review.
• Working knowledge of evidence-based pedagogy, inclusive teaching practice, and course design.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to write clearly about policy and facilitate effectively across disciplines.
• Sound judgment and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential matters.
• A record of teaching, scholarship, and service sufficient for appointment with tenure at the rank of professor (preferred).
• Experience working within a collective bargaining environment (preferred).
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible academic leadership experience (preferred).
• Experience at a university with professional and technical programs, multiple campuses, and a substantial graduate and international student population (preferred).
• Familiarity with regional and specialized accreditation requirements (preferred).
• Experience supporting online, hybrid, and technology-enhanced instruction (preferred).
• Experience with budget management and staff supervision (preferred).

Skills

• Faculty development programming
• Policy interpretation and application
• Curriculum development
• Academic policy
• Faculty workload management
• Faculty awards and recognition programs
• Grant competitions
• Faculty grievances and appeals
• Committee leadership
• University governance
• Strategic planning
• Staff supervision
• Faculty mentoring
• Teaching consultation
• Course design
• Evidence-based pedagogy
• Inclusive teaching practice
• Learner-centered teaching
• Instructional technologies
• Artificial intelligence in teaching and learning
• Faculty research support
• Scholarly development
• Scholarship of teaching and learning
• Portfolio preparation
• Budget management
• Resource management
• External funding acquisition
• Communication skills
• Facilitation skills
• Judgment
• Discretion

Location

• New York City, New York
• Long Island, New York
• Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Vancouver, British Columbia

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Associate Professor or Professor rank
• Minimum of five years of academic leadership experience

Education Level

• Doctorate or terminal degree

Salary/Compensations

• USD $170,000.00/Yr. - $200,000.00/Yr.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Generous paid time off
• Holidays
• Tuition remission
• Retirement plans with employer contributions

About the Company

• New York Institute of Technology's six schools and colleges offer undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degree programs in in-demand disciplines.
• Founded in 1955, it is a nonprofit, independent, private, and nonsectarian institution of higher education.
• It welcomes nearly 8,000 students worldwide.
• The university has campuses in New York City and Long Island, New York; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as programs around the world.
• More than 120,000 alumni are part of an engaged network of professionals.
• The university's community empowers graduates to change the world, solve 21st-century challenges, and reinvent the future.

Equal Opportunity

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.