Director, Center Emerging Technologies

Employment Status

Employment Status Full Time

Months

Months 12

Campus

Campus Both ME Campuses

Description

The Director of the Center for Emerging Technologies ( CET ) provides University-wide coordination and expertise for University of New England’s ( UNE ) work with emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), that are changing education, professional practice, research, and the workplace. The Director’s primary responsibility is to ensure that UNE students, regardless of degree program or field of study, develop the knowledge, judgment, and practical fluency needed to use these technologies, including AI, ethically and effectively.

The Director works closely with faculty, professional staff, and academic leaders to understand how technological change is affecting individual disciplines and professions, and to help translate those changes into relevant student competencies and learning opportunities. The Director leads the Center’s programs and resources in support of this work. The Director supports student and faculty research and scholarship involving emerging technologies and helps the University identify promising areas for exploration, experimentation, and external partnership.

As CET develops over time, this work may lead to deeper areas of research and innovation. These activities should grow from the Center’s primary focus on students, faculty, and academic programs.

The CET serves as UNE’s University-wide hub for this work. Through the Center and the leadership of the AI Governance Committee, the Director coordinates activity across the University and partners closely with academic programs and units, including the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ( CETL ), the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship ( CIE ), Information Technology Services ( ITS ), the Office of Career Readiness and Workforce Development ( OCR ), and the Office of Research and Innovation ( ORI ), among others.

The Center’s work is primarily academic in focus, with the Director working closely with ITS where the academic use of emerging technologies intersects with University systems, processes, data, security, and infrastructure.

About the University of New England UNE is Maine’s largest private university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible online offerings. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to positively impact a world full of challenges. We are the state’s top provider of health professionals and home to Maine’s only medical and dental colleges, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs, and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.

About the Center for Emerging Technologies The Center for Emerging Technologies ( CET ) prepares UNE students to thrive in professions and workplaces being transformed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. As a University-wide hub, the CET helps students, faculty, and professional staff understand, evaluate, and use emerging technologies ethically and effectively, while supporting academic programs in responding to technological change and creating opportunities for interdisciplinary exploration, research, and innovation.

As UNE’s central point of coordination, the CET maintains policies, guidelines and best practices for the use of AI and emerging technologies, contributes to related University policies in partnership with other governance bodies, and provides shared resources that support responsible use of these technologies across teaching, learning,…