Academic Coordinator - CED Summer Institute

The College of Environmental Design (CED) is one of the worlds most distinguished laboratories for experimentation, research, and intellectual synergy. Our research centers and academic departments pioneered an integrated approach to analyzing, understanding, and designing our built environment that continues to this day.

CED's mission is to provide leadership to address the worlds most pressing environmental challenges. We tackle issues from multiple perspectives and across disciplines - architecture, city and regional planning, landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, and real estate development and design
-always with the understanding that environmental design is inseparable from society, culture, politics, and economics. Our faculty and students view environmental design as an exploratory spatial practice, aimed at creating forms of building, landscape, and urban plans that have yet to be imagined. At the same time, we believe that environmental design must be a profoundly ethical practice, coproduced through dynamic engagements with diverse communities and policy-makers.

Our design and research practices are centered on four main themes: climate solutions, equity and social justice, technology and material innovations, and design excellence. The College of Environmental Design offers three academic summer programs open to students and young professionals of all backgrounds and from all over the world. In addition, we offer a day camp for young high school students.

The Academic Coordinator for the Summer Institute works closely with the Summer Program Director and reports to the CED Dean. The position has the following responsibilities:

• Strategic direction, program design, and academic planning of the three Summer Institutes; for example, assessment of program success, target audience, and recommending adjustments regarding content and target group; maintain academic standards for the non-degree Summer Institutes which carry academic credit.
• Support CED Program Director with outreach (marketing) to academic and professional networks and constituents.
  
  -Support Dean with hiring instructors for the summer (lecturers and TAs/GSIs).
  
  -Support lead instructors with course design, syllabus planning, and coordination, suggest site visits, connect them with local professionals and practitioners, foster collaboration between lead instructors.
• Coordinate between lead instructors and CED Program Director for outreach purposes, such as timely delivery of materials and organizing information sessions for students.
• During the summer, the incumbent supports lead instructors in all aspects of the academic program delivery, serves as a panelist in student reviews, and adjudicates conflicts between instructors or students and instructors, if necessary.

Masters degree (or equivalent international degree).