Department Head, Performing Arts and Technology

The Department of Performing Arts and Technology is seeking an outstanding individual to lead this department as Department Head. We seek to hire a candidate with a strong commitment to academic, creative, and scholarly excellence commensurate with the expectations of a research university, and aligned with the areas of faculty responsibility appropriate for the department’s mission. The department head will promote a collegial, supportive, and welcoming environment for all faculty, staff, and students, with a strong commitment to recruiting and retaining well qualified faculty, facilitating student success, and directing all academic, operational, and budgetary activities associated with departmental functions.

Reporting to the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department Head, serving as the department’s academic leader and administrative officer, will be called upon to provide strategic leadership and vision in:

• Creating an environment that facilitates an effective shared vision; serving as a thought leader and ambassador for the department, college, and university;
• Leading departmental academic, research, creative artistry, and engagement activities in the context of a broad vision of the discipline;
• Facilitating a culturally competent environment with a strong commitment to recruiting and retaining faculty, staff, and students;
• Promoting and rewarding excellence in faculty research, creative artistry, teaching and mentoring, department, college, and university service, and community engagement;
• Fostering a culture of high-impact interdisciplinary collaboration within the college; building partnerships and alliances across the university;
• Advancing departmental and college academic excellence within the university as well as relative to peer institutions;
• Linking programs within the department to the broader college and university missions;
• Developing external partnerships, when relevant, in support of the department’s mission and goals;
• Aligning and allocating resources with departmental strategic plans and vision;
• Demonstrating scholarly, creative artistry, and professional engagement & excellence.

• Contribute to the department in terms of teaching and/or creative/scholarly research productivity;
• Manage an office environment alongside staff members that oversee performing arts day-to-day operations, facilities, labs, and marketing;
• Performance evaluations for all direct reports, including annual reviews and recommendations for faculty retention, promotion, and tenure;
• Recruitment and hiring of new faculty and staff;
• Recommendations for salaries for faculty and staff hires, including new hires, legislative increases, discretionary increases, and retentions in a fair, equitable, principled, and defensible manner;
• Coordination and management of course scheduling;
• Curriculum assessment and revision;
• Management of the faculty’s committee and service assignments;
• Resolution of student academic problems;
• Allocation of available space to meet departmental needs;
• Comprehensive planning of all funding sources in the department using all available funding sources to meet the needs of the department;
• Management and administration of fiscal resources, including planning, expenditure of funds in accordance with relevant processes and rules, and execution of fiscal year close out in accordance with college standards;
• Assisting, when appropriate, the college’s development staff in connecting with and directing the efforts of donors;
• Initiating, maintaining, and building new external relations with alumni and the community;
• Representing the department in college and university-level planning and…