Director, Honors Program
Company: University Of Florida
Location: Gainesville
Posted on: January 25, 2023
Job Description:
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Work type: Faculty Admin Title
Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL)
Categories: Executive/Director/Management
Department: 02030000 - PV-HONORS OFFICE
Classification Title: Director, Honors Program Job Description: You
belong at a University that is RisingThe University of Florida,
-the flagship university of the state of Florida, is a top-tier
research institution with a long history of training outstanding
undergraduate, graduate, and professional -students. UF is
currently ranked #5 among U.S. public research universities by U.S.
News and World Report. -The Office of Undergraduate Affairs seeks
applications for the next Director for the Honors Program to
elevate the stature of the University of Florida's rising honors
program.The OpportunityThe Director of the UF Honors Program
provides strategic vision; classroom and programmatic leadership
and expertise; financial oversight; and administrative, day-to-day
supervision and management of the UF Honors Program. The director
will work collaboratively among an array of on- and off-campus
partners, including administrators, faculty, staff, and students to
shape continued implementation of a shared strategic vision for the
program. The director will foster an inclusive environment for a
diverse group of students, ensuring that students of color and
other diverse backgrounds and identities can be supported and
successful in the UF Honors Program and across campus.The UF Honors
Director oversees every aspect of the UF Honors curricular and
co-curricular education, teaching, and learning experience. The
director will create and sustain a UF Honors Program Steering
Committee and a UF Honors Program Curriculum Committee to ensure
consistent delivery of best practices of nationally top-ranked
Honors programs. The director will establish and ensure highest
standards of curricular and co-curricular experiences and will
establish and regularly report results of outcomes assessments at
the program and course levels. -The Director will be highly engaged
with national Honors program organizations and will research and
report on the most effective practices and emerging trends in
Honors education. The director will participate in and encourage
faculty and staff to participate in peer-reviewed publications and
presentations to share UF's successes and best practices with other
Honors programs. -In addition to the Office of Undergraduate
Affairs in the Provost's Office, the director will collaborate
closely with UF Enrollment Management in Honors student
recruitment, admissions, and marketing. The Director partners
closely with the Division of Student Life and UF Housing, and the
director will be highly engaged in the transition of the UF Honors
office and programming to the UF Honors Village. The UF Honors
Director will also partner with UF Advancement in seeking,
securing, and stewarding philanthropic giving that enriches the
student experience in the UF Honors Program. The UF Honors Director
is also expected to nurture strong partnerships with the leadership
of UF Preview and UF Student Success.The UF Honors Director must
possess highly developed communication skills and an understanding
of how a successful honors functions to enable successful
collaboration across multiple areas with different operational
missions. The director will have had leadership experience and can
provide evidence of building consensus within a diverse community
toward shared outcomes. The director will have experience in
developing, maintaining, and monitoring a complex budget.
-Successful candidate will be a highly collaborative, innovative,
strategic thinkers who can cultivate and develop initiatives that
challenge, grow, and support the highly talented students in the UF
Honors Program. The director must be undergraduate student-centered
and fully invested in and knowledgeable of the unique needs of
high-achieving students who are admitted to this program,
anticipating their leadership roles in society, and expecting their
full participation in the Gator Community as leaders among their
fellow undergraduate students. The UF Honors Director engages
directly with students, serving as a model for Honors staff in
supporting its program mission of "inspiring curiosity,
intellectual daring, and creativity." The UF Honors Director's
record of service must align with the UF Core Values . -This
position is open to both tenure and non-tenure track
faculty.Primary Responsibilities:
- Managing Daily Operations of the UF Honors Program Office
- Supervises and manages daily operations of the UF Honors
program office.
- Hires, supervises, and evaluates a team of UF Honors staff.
Encourages staff in pursuing professional development
opportunities. -
- Develops, maintains, and regularly monitors the UF Honors
program budget.
- Leads development and implementation of a communication plan
that effectively informs students of needed information about the
UF Honors program and builds community among the students.
Communication methods include and are not limited to the UF Honors
web site, Canvas, social media sites, etc. -
- Building, Implementing, Sustaining, and Communicating a Vision
of the UF Honors Program
- Provides leadership among UF Honors staff and campus to shape a
strategic vision for UF Honors as a top-ranked national program.
Develops a strategic plan in collaboration with staff, campus, and
external stakeholders that provides a sustained road map for
excellence for the Program. -
- Chairs a UF Honors Steering Committee, along with a Faculty
co-chair, and prepares committee meeting minutes and reports.
Collaborates with the UF Honors Steering Committee to establish a
faculty professional development program. -
- Serves as primary contact for UF Honors, representing the
Program in various on- and off-campus capacities, including in the
Advisory Council for Undergraduate Affairs, the University
Curriculum and General Education Committees (as appropriate), and
in state- and national-level meetings.
- Produces an annual report of UF Honors Program and student
activities and successes and their alignment with the strategic
plan of the program. Identifies areas in need of improvement with
an accompanying plan of action. -
- Participates regularly in UF and national professional
development activities offered by UF and nationally. -
- Creating and Sustaining Innovative Curricular and Co-Curricular
Experiences for UF Honors Students
- Creates and sustains standards for all UF Honors curricula.
Partners with a UF Honors Curriculum Committee to ensure all
courses meet the standards of UF Honors. Creates and implements an
assessment framework for all UF Honors courses. Partners with the
University Curriculum Committee and General Education Committee as
appropriate.
- Engages in research and develops innovative approaches in
teaching UF Honors curriculum.
- In partnership with Colleges and departments, recruits top UF
faculty to teach Honors courses. Provides support and professional
development resources for UF faculty teaching Honors courses,
including collaboration with the UF Center for Teaching Excellence.
Collects, analyzes, and reports data about UF Honors faculty
professional development and successful best practices.
- Collaborates with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and
University Registrar to schedule and encode UF Honors course
sections. -
- Partnering with On- and Off-Campus Stakeholders
- Partners with Enrollment Management to establish each year a
targeted admissions pool of students. Partners with Enrollment
Management to provide critical participation in recruiting and
marketing efforts. -
- Partners and collaborates with the Center for Undergraduate
Research in the Office of Undergraduate Affairs in planning and
implementing components of the Undergraduate Research Scholars
Program (URSP). -
- Coordinates with UF Preview program leadership and UF Preview
academic advising to ensure Honors students receive a high level of
accurate and relevant advising and coaching during their UF Preview
experience.
- Coordinates with UF Academic Advisors throughout colleges and
departments to ensure seamless service to students. Ensures
participation of UF Honors Advising in the post-advising session
survey.
- Partners closely with UF Student Success to track progress of
Honors students and connect students, when needed, to support
resources, including tutoring, coaching, and peer mentoring.
Likewise, encourages UF Honors students to serve as peer tutors and
peer mentors through UF Student Success. Partners closely with the
prestigious awards unit of UF Student Success to ensure that UF
remains competitive in external scholarship recipients.
- Partners with UF Advancement and the designated UF Foundation
development officer assigned to the Office of Undergraduate Affairs
in fund-raising and stewardship activities on behalf of the UF
Honors Program.
- Partners with the Lombardi and Stamps Scholars Program to
recruit, select, and support the talented students who participate
in this program.Office of Undergraduate Affairs, Honors ProgramThe
Office of Undergraduate Affairs strives to create a campus that
will provide a transformative and model undergraduate experience
through an effective and genuine balance between liberal education
and professional preparation. Joining the Office of Undergraduate
Affairs, the Director of the UF Honors Program will report directly
to the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and will work
collaboratively daily with other staff in Undergraduate Affairs and
the Provost's Office.The Office of Undergraduate Affairs assists in
the creation of nurturing, transformative, model on-campus and
virtual learning environments for all undergraduate students
through an effective balance between liberal education and
professional preparation. The Office of Undergraduate Affairs
collaborates with the campus community to ensure this goal is a
collective one in common pursuit of dynamic undergraduate learning
experiences that support the mission of the Office of the Provost
and the University of Florida. To this end, staff in the Office of
Undergraduate Affairs support university committees, oversee
interdisciplinary curricula and programs, and monitor undergraduate
degree requirements, aimed at maintaining connection and
communication with administration, faculty, staff, and students;
improving student persistence; furthering the university's goals of
excellence and its core values
(https://president.ufl.edu/media/presidentufledu/documents/UF-Core-Values.pdf);
and, ultimately, serving the undergraduate student. -The UF Honors
Program is structured in two parts: the First-Year Honors Program
(FHP) for first-year students and the University Honors Program
(UHP) for upper-division students. At every level of the program,
we provide tailored advising, opportunities for community-building
and interdisciplinary engagement.Our Commitment to Diversity,
Equity, and InclusionThe greatest strength of the University of
Florida Honors Program is our community. Bound together by
curiosity and compassion, our purpose is to create lifelong
connections among and for students from around the world, while
encouraging each to maximize their potential, experiences, and
horizons. By nature, the Honors Program's three pillars of
opportunity, community and challenge support the diversity, equity,
and inclusion (DEI) work we seek to foster and improve. Honors
courses and campus resources around social issues are a starting
point for engagement opportunities. Our community includes scholars
from around the world. We accept the challenge of recognizing DEI
failures and opportunities within our own program and within
society through organizations like Honors First Gen because we
believe in a diverse, equitable and inclusive future for all.The
University of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The
University is committed to non-discrimination with respect to race,
creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin,
political opinions or affiliations, genetic information, and
veteran status in all aspects of employment including recruitment,
hiring, promotion, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and
salary administration, benefits, and training.The University of
Florida -Located in Gainesville since 1906, The University of
Florida (UF) has 16 colleges, a major academic health center, a
championship winning athletic program, a top-ranked undergraduate
online program and, in keeping with its land-grant mission, one of
the nation's most comprehensive agriculture and natural resources
programs. All are based at the University's 2,000-acre campus,
joining its historic red-brick core with advanced facilities and
preserved natural areas and connecting to adjacent innovation,
commercial and residential districts.UF has 55,000 students, 30,000
employees, 5,500 faculty members, a $5 billion annual budget and
more than 140 mission-focused units across the state of Florida. It
is the Sunshine State's only member of the Association of American
Universities comprising the nation's 60 leading public and private
research universities. More than 51,000 students have applied as
freshmen for the 2021-22 academic year - a new record.Several
qualities distinguish UF among today's leading public research
universities. The first is its highly comprehensive breadth on a
single campus, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration among,
for example, faculty within the adjacent colleges of journalism,
engineering, and medicine. The second is its unwavering support
from the state of Florida, which has endorsed UF's drive to become
one of the nation's very best public research universities -
supporting those efforts since 2013 with hundreds of millions of
dollars in additional funding to grow its faculty ranks by 500
members. UF's third exceptional quality is its dynamism. Like
Florida, the nation's third-largest state and among the
fastest-growing, UF is undergoing rapid transformation as it
pursues the overarching aspiration to be "a premier university that
the state, nation and world look to for leadership."The City of
GainesvilleGainesville (http://cityofgainesville.org ) is home to
Florida's largest and oldest university, and so is one of the
state's centers of education, medicine, cultural events and
athletics. The University of Florida and UF Health Shands Hospital
are the leading employers in Gainesville and provide jobs for many
residents of surrounding counties. Gainesville is also the largest
city in Alachua County and is the county seat, with approximately
269,000 residents county-wide. It serves as the cultural,
educational and commercial center for the north central Florida
region. The city provides a full range of municipal services,
including cultural and nature services and necessary administrative
services to support these activities. Additionally, the city owns a
regional transit system, a regional airport, and a 72-par
championship golf course. Known for its preservation of historic
buildings and the beauty of its natural surroundings, Gainesville's
numerous parks, museums and lakes provide entertainment to
thousands of visitors. Because of its beautiful landscape and urban
"forest," Gainesville is one of the most attractive cities in
Florida. The city is in a central location to both the Gulf of
Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, providing easy access within a day's
drive to beaches, nature preserves, and water-based activities.
-Explore Gainesville in 60 Seconds. Commensurate with education and
experience
- A Ph.D. or Doctorate degree is required upon hire
- At least 10 years of relevant experience Preferred
Qualifications:
- Experience supervising employees
- Strong record of participating at the national level in a
professional organization related to Honors students and programs,
and knowledge of peer-reviewed literature and current best
practices in Honors education is expected.
- Strong leadership and planning skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills
with the ability to manage multiple, competing priorities
- Strong inter-personal and verbal communication skills and
communicate effectively in writing
- The ability to cultivate and sustain collegial relationships is
critical to this position
- Development of networks across the University and collaborate
with diverse stakeholders; working to build consensus in a
collaborative fashion
- Ability to work independently and interdependently and able to
establish and communicate a vision for the UF Honors Program
- Prior knowledge of University of Florida policies and
procedures
- Demonstrated ability to drive innovative change
- Strong written and verbal communication skills Special
Instructions to Applicants: Candidates must apply online and should
include a letter of interest outlining their qualifications and
commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion for this position
and a current curriculum vitae.Formal review of applications will
begin January 19, 2023 and will continue until a viable applicant
pool is established. This position is open until filled. Health
Assessment Required: No Advertised: 23 Dec 2022 Eastern Standard
Time
Applications close: Open until filled The University is committed
to non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion,
age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and
expression, marital status, national origin, political opinions or
affiliations,genetic information and veteran status in all aspects
of employment including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers,
discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits,
and training.
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