Chair, Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences

Job Description

Typical duties may include but are not limited to:

• Provide vision, leadership, motivation, and supervision to the department and its programs.
• Conduct personnel needs assessments and work with faculty and staff to identify staffing needs, specialties, and expertise to ensure relevant and excellent curricula and instruction.
• Ensure accreditation compliance with all state and federal agencies relevant to each program area within the department.
• Ensures departmental compliance with college/school, university, system, and state policies, rules, regulations, programs, practices, and procedures.
• Foster a culture of research and scholarship, encouraging faculty to engage in creative, scholarly, and research activities.
• Evaluate and mentor faculty in areas of teaching, research, and service, providing guidance for professional growth.
• Lead faculty and staff recruitment efforts, including creating a comprehensive position marketing and recruitment plan and coordinating the hiring process with Academic Affairs and college/school leadership.
• Oversee curriculum development and program enhancement to ensure the department remains at the cutting edge of educational trends and technologies.
• Collaborates with Program Coordinator/Director and departmental faculty members to make appropriate and timely revisions to departmental degree programs, including prerequisites, required courses, course learning goals, and course content; to propose new degree programs; and to focus on assessment for continuous improvement.
• Leads periodic complete curricular reviews for every degree program within the department.
• Develops the departmental semester course teaching schedule in consultation with departmental faculty and college/school leadership. Ensures that the departmental course teaching schedule fosters student learning and facilitates student graduation.
• Build and maintain external partnerships with local school districts, professional organizations, and community stakeholders to support program goals and student success.
• Collaborates with students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community leaders (department stakeholders) to establish and maintain a strategic vision for the department that is consistent with the vision, mission, core values, and plans of the college/school and University.
• Encourage professional development by facilitating opportunities for faculty to attend conferences, workshops, and training programs.
• Oversee student recruitment and retention initiatives, collaborating with faculty to design programs that support student academic success, advising, and mentoring.
• Prepare and submit required internal and external reports, including accreditation documentation, faculty and staff performance evaluations, and departmental reviews.
• Collaborates with staff and faculty to develop annual departmental goals and objectives; provides the Dean with progress reports for meeting departmental goals.
• Represent the department at college and university-wide committees, contributing to the development of university policies and initiatives.
• Develops and regularly monitors the departmental budget to ensure fiscal accountability and effective resource management. Understands and adheres to University policies and procedures relating to the expenditure of University funds.
• Adheres to the articles, processes, and timelines regarding faculty performance, evaluation, and promotion described in the current College Framework, FGCU and United Faculty of Florida (UFF) Collective Bargaining Agreement, and the Faculty Performance Evaluation Document (FPED).
• Other duties as assigned.

Additional Job Description

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate (Ed.D., Ph.D.) inEducation, Curriculum and Instruction, Higher Education, Learning Sciences, Instructional Technology or closely related field.
• A record of teaching, scholarly, and service contributions that merits appointment at the rank of Professor in an appropriate academic discipline within the college.
• Experience as a college professor.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a program coordinator or department chair.
• Documented work as a collaborative leader.
• Experience with curriculum development, accreditation, and program evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets and allocate resources effectively.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Appointment will be made at an out-of-unit faculty rank commensurate with the candidate's experience on a 12-month out-of-unit multi-year appointment basis beginning as early as in January 2025.

Because applications and materials are subject to public review and retention under Florida's Public Records Law, please DO NOT send examples of your project/scholarship unless requested to do so. Therefore, all submitted materials including articles, disks, slides, books, etc., become the property of FGCU and CANNOT BE RETURNED. As applicable, finalists will be notified of the need to submit specific additional materials. Such materials will become the property of FGCU.

Under Florida's Public Records law, applications will be available for public review upon request.

Required Application Materials:

• Unofficial Transcripts
• Statement of Teaching Philosophy
• Curriculum Vitae
• Cover Letter
• Five (5) Professional References

Review of applicant materials will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Salary commensurate with education and experience.