Assistant​/Associate​/Full professor

About This Role

The Staley School of Leadership at Kansas State University invites applications for a nine-month tenure-track professor (open rank) position in Leadership Studies. We seek a scholar whose research and teaching engage leadership education and development, civic leadership, and leading change-broadly conceived. The successful candidate will bring a forward-looking research agenda and teaching portfolio that advances innovative ways to develop and practice leadership, mobilizing people, organizations, and communities to make change on the world's critical challenges.

We are especially interested in candidates whose scholarship intersects with one or more of the following: higher education leadership education (i.e, curriculum development, pedagogy, assessment of leadership programs); student leadership development; adaptive leadership; complexity and systems leadership; collective, processual, and practice-based leadership; critical, cultural, and global perspectives of leadership; and community-engaged approaches to organizational and societal change. Across these areas, we especially value candidates who build capacity for pedagogical innovation (in person and online), co-curricular learning activities, applied learning, community partnerships, participatory research, and public scholarship.

The successful candidate will contribute to a culture of shared accountability and a growth mindset and demonstrate the potential to advance the university's Next-Gen K-State goals.

What is expected:

* Teach a variety of courses in the undergraduate leadership curriculum, such as introduction to leadership concepts, culture and context of leadership, nonprofit leadership, or global food systems leadership, as well as develop new courses that reflect the candidate's expertise in leadership studies and leadership development.

* Teach graduate-level courses in research methods or special topics related to research interests in the Staley School graduate programs and in the interdisciplinary Leadership Communication (LeadCOMM) doctoral program.

* Develop and sustain a vibrant, forward-looking research agenda that engages the future of leadership education and the evolving nature of leadership and leadership development in a complex world. The candidate's research program should demonstrate a trajectory commensurate with school, college, and university expectations for tenure and promotion (e.g., a record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations).

* Advise graduate students and serve on project or dissertation committees after attaining graduate faculty status at the master's and doctoral levels.

* Apply for internal and extramural research grants individually and/or through multidisciplinary collaborations to support research and teaching where applicable.

* Engage in school, university, and community service, including leveraging scholarly expertise toward School- and university-level strategic initiatives that advance institutional transformation.

* Contribute to building and sustaining a collegial, supportive intellectual community characterized by shared accountability, growth-mindset, and a commitment to collaborative faculty governance.

About Us

The Mary Lynn and Warren Staley School of Leadership at Kansas State University is a values-centered learning community that provides academic, co-curricular, and applied learning experiences to students across the university with the purpose of developing bold, curious, and connected learners to address our world's most complex challenges.

The Staley School brings together leadership studies, leadership and service programs, scholar development and undergraduate research, university honors, and applied learning faculty and staff committed to building and sustaining a positive, thriving organizational culture.

The Leadership Studies unit seeks to advance the study, practice, and development of leadership that supports the well-being and progress of people, organizations, and communities in a complex and changing world. Students can earn undergraduate certificates in Leadership Studies and Non-Profit Leadership; a secondary major in Global Food Systems Leadership; a graduate certificate in Non-Profit Leadership or Leading Change; a for-credit graduate micro-credential in Leadership Coaching;

or engage in other non-credit micro-credentials designed to prepare learners to exercise leadership in professional careers. We are also host to the interdisciplinary Leadership Communication doctoral program.

Our faculty is deeply committed to Kansas State's land-grant mission, as outlined in the Next-Gen K-State strategic plan. As the home of Third Floor Research partnership, Leading Change Institutes, and K-State's Applied Learning initiative, the School actively encourages and rewards public-facing, community-engaged scholarship in our tenure and promotion process. For more information, visit https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

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