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Job Opening: Director, Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University |
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18 February 2010 |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, invites nominations and applications for the position of Director for its Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL). This position, reporting to the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, offers an individual committed to advancing the status of women within and outside the University a highly visible platform from which to foster programs and initiatives that further scholarship, education, policy, and practice with respect to diversity, feminism, and women’s leadership.
Institute for Women’s Leadership
The Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers is a consortium of eight units based at the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus and dedicated to the study of women and gender, to advocacy on behalf of gender equity, and to the promotion of women’s leadership locally, nationally, and globally. Established in 1991, the Institute for Women’s Leadership connects its member units in the mission to examine and advance women’s leadership in education, research, the arts, sciences, business, politics and government, human rights, the workplace, and the world. The Institute supports member units’ missions, promotes a collective focus on women’s leadership for social change, and leads in the creation of initiatives that further women’s leadership in all arenas.
The IWL leads activities in three broad areas: model leadership programs for women in the public and private sectors; interdisciplinary research on women’s leadership; and collaborative programs that utilize the expertise of unit members for the benefit of the consortium. The strategic focus of the Institute is to develop leaders committed to a new vision of leadership, dedicated to improving people’s lives and creating a world with human rights and justice for everyone. Priorities include creating new knowledge about women’s leadership, developing leaders and fostering environments receptive to women’s leadership, and maintaining the Institute as a model of collaborative leadership.
The IWL complex on the Douglass Campus in New Brunswick provides a geographical focus where women leaders—grass roots activists, policy advocates, politicians, elected officials, and business and corporate executives—can connect with scholars and researchers to envision and help create a more equitable future. Linking diverse constituencies, the IWL is a site for creative problem solving and social change, and is poised to become a global leader in the study of women’s lives and the advancement of women’s leadership.
The Institute for Women’s Leadership consortium presently includes the following research, education, and advocacy units:
• Douglass Residential College, the only public undergraduate residential college for women in the country;
• Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary department with both undergraduate and graduate programs and one of the most highly-ranked such departments in the U.S.;
• Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and the nation’s leading authority on the status of women in government;
• Institute for Research on Women, a national leader in advancing feminist scholarship through annual interdisciplinary research seminars, distinguished lecture series, and scholarly publications;
• Center for Women’s Global Leadership, a central player in the worldwide movement to define and achieve women’s human rights;
• Center for Women and Work, a unit of the School of Management and Labor Relations, linking research, policymakers, and working women in addressing issues of women and work in New Jersey, the U.S., and globally;
• Institute for Women and Art, supporting research, programming and exhibitions related to women and art and promoting policies and strategies to redress gender inequities in the arts;
• Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, home of Rutgers’ NSF-ADVANCE grant, creating and sustaining transformative initiatives to increase and support undergraduate, graduate, and faculty women in science, technology, and engineering fields.
Members of the IWL consortium pursue distinctive programs of their own, while also working together on a range of joint initiatives and ventures. Their wide-ranging activity has made Rutgers a magnet for talented faculty in many fields who recognize the richness and collective value of the consortial arrangement. Additional opportunities exist for broadening IWL’s activities to Rutgers’ Newark and Camden campuses, where individual scholars already participate in IWL activities.
Director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership
The Director is the intellectual and administrative leader of the consortium. As the primary spokesperson for the IWL, the Director is responsible for the development of scholarly inquiry, programs, and initiatives to foster women’s leadership, and for increasing the national and international eminence of the consortium. Through compelling personal vision and collaborative work with constitutive units as well as with other areas of the University, the Director will shape the direction, define the purposes, and set the broad-based agendas of the IWL for the next decade. The Director will identify and champion the issues that concern women and gender, women’s leadership, and other newly identified areas, as well as focusing on those issues central to the work of the members of the IWL. The Director will be a leading advocate for the advancement of women, a university-wide influence, and someone who will bring national prominence to the work done through the IWL at Rutgers.
IWL’s annual budget is approximately one million dollars, half of which is raised from external gifts, grants, and fees. In addition, the IWL has an endowment of approximately $3 million. The generation of additional resources through external fundraising is an important part of the Director’s responsibilities.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will possess a Ph.D. or other terminal degree in an academic or professional field, and will be a scholar of national reputation or will have had equivalent professional leadership experience in areas related to issues of significance to women.
The Director will be a visionary leader who can build on IWL’s previous and current accomplishments to build an agenda for the next decade. The capacity to articulate and build consensus around a strategic vision, as well as to implement policies and initiatives to achieve that vision, are critical.
The next Director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership must have the ability to:
• Articulate a clear and inspired vision for the future and identify strategic goals that will ensure the ongoing success and vitality of the Institute, advance its programs nationally and internationally, and foster diversity as a means of enhancing educational excellence;
• Form partnerships with varied constituencies within and beyond Rutgers, including administration, faculty, deans, directors, staff, alumni, graduate and undergraduate students, community leaders and organizations, and political representatives;
• Manage effectively in an academic environment while reaching out to women and organizations outside of academe in areas such as government, the corporate and business worlds, secondary education, foundations, and non-profit organizations;
• Create and sustain a collegial environment for education and research that is innovative and rigorous;
• Contribute to the University’s teaching and research missions through IWL programs and initiatives;
• Foster and deepen understandings of feminist scholarship as it intersects with issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexual orientation
• Serve as mentor and role model for undergraduate students seeking to develop their leadership capabilities;
• Increase visibility and support for IWL initiatives within Rutgers, among the political leadership of New Jersey, and with other diverse constituencies and communities;
• Expand the reach of IWL beyond the current members and organizational foci, to bring new areas of expertise and interest into the consortium, to use the resources of Rutgers, the current members of the IWL, and those who would partner with it to the fullest potential;
• Maintain and enhance cross-departmental, cross-unit collaborations which make the IWL consortium so effective as an organization.
Personal Characteristics
The ideal candidate for this position will be:
• A relationship-builder who operates through mutual respect, with aptitude and demonstrated enthusiasm for fund-raising and capital development;
• An institution-builder, with an expansiveness that brings and holds people together;
• An intellectual who enjoys public life and who thrives in a high visibility position;
• A spokesperson for the Institute, for Rutgers, and for women’s education and leadership in and beyond New Jersey;
• Familiar and comfortable with academe, its administrative mechanisms, and its educational and political culture;
• Able to participate in the research and educational missions of the university, which include undergraduate as well as graduate and professional education.
The ideal candidate will possess the following personal characteristics:
• Passionate commitment to diversity, women’s leadership, and the mission of the IWL at Rutgers;
• Ability to seize opportunities where they exist and create them where they do not; to be open to ideas from others, and to offer and implement self-generated initiatives;
• Ability to communicate comfortably, effectively and responsively with colleagues, students, faculty, staff, alumni, the media, and external constituents;
• Talent for collaborative leadership and strategic thinking;
• Excellent, imaginative, and effective organizational and management skills.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Chartered in 1766, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is the eighth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It has a unique history: from its inception as a colonial liberal arts college, Rutgers grew to become the land-grant college of New Jersey in 1864, and to assume full university status in 1924. Legislative Acts of 1945 and 1956 designated it The State University of New Jersey.
Today, Rutgers is one of the leading public research universities in the nation and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities. Dedicated to a threefold mission, Rutgers is equally committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship, and public service. Driving all of Rutgers’ activities is the defining characteristic of a premier research university: the continuous and vigorous creation of intellectual capital —the new discoveries and insights that drive the advancement of human knowledge and contribute to the improvement of the human condition.
The University comprises twenty-seven degree-granting divisions: eleven undergraduate colleges, ten graduate schools, and six schools offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees. These schools and divisions are spread across three campuses, in New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark. The University is also home to over 180 specialized research institutes.
Rutgers currently enrolls 40,000 undergraduates and approximately 14,000 graduate students across its three campuses, in more than 100 bachelor’s, 100 master’s, and 70 doctoral and professional programs. The University continues to grow and expand, not only in the quality of its student body, but also in the variety and depth of its educational and research programs, the quality and range of its facilities, and the amount of its federal and state research support. In 2009, Rutgers received approximately $391 million in external grants and contracts.
Rutgers employs over 2,800 full-time faculty members and over 6,300 full-time staff to administer and support its academic and research programs, making it one of the largest employers in the State of New Jersey. Its faculty is nationally recognized for excellence: individual members have been honored with an array of prestigious awards and grants, including MacArthur “genius” fellowships, National Medals of Science, National Medals of Technology, Fulbright scholarships, and Guggenheim fellowships. Rutgers faculty are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academies, as well as other leading national research associations and professional organizations.
In addition to the excellent teaching, research, and public service offered on Rutgers’ campuses, one of the University’s great strengths is the diversity of its student body. Rutgers’ diversity not only reflects the unique character of the State of New Jersey, but also creates a distinctive community that prepares students exceptionally well for leadership in our multicultural and multiethnic nation.
Rutgers has an annual operating budget of approximately $1.7 billion. The value of its endowment as of June 30, 2009 was $508 million.
The New Brunswick Campus
The Rutgers-New Brunswick Campus is an international research powerhouse located in the heart of New Jersey. The historic birthplace of Rutgers, it is the largest and oldest of the University’s three campuses and is actually made up of five smaller campuses—College Avenue, Cook, Douglass, Busch, and Livingston—which are geographically separated by the Raritan River and by downtown New Brunswick. The city of New Brunswick itself is a hub of governmental and legal activity, and also offers a vibrant theatre district, excellent restaurants, bustling coffee shops, and alternative music venues.
The majority of Rutgers-New Brunswick’s 29,000 undergraduates are in the School of Arts and Sciences either as full-time matriculants or for a portion of their undergraduate course work; undergraduates may also enroll in more specialized professional programs such as those offered by the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, or the School of Engineering. More than 60 percent of the undergraduate student body live on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campuses. The New Brunswick campus also is home to some of the University’s most renowned graduate programs in such areas as the arts and sciences, planning and public policy, engineering, pharmacy, and the fine and performing arts.
University Leadership and Governance
President Richard L. McCormick, an American historian, became the nineteenth President of Rutgers in December 2002. Over the past eight years, in conjunction with the senior leadership team he assembled, President McCormick has emphasized his commitment to two overarching aspirations for the University: to achieve even greater academic distinction, and to provide more significant service to communities beyond its campuses, particularly to the citizens of New Jersey. To this end, President McCormick has articulated five specific strategic goals for the University:
• To improve the quality of Rutgers’ academic programs, especially in areas of comparative advantage and opportunity, such as health sciences;
• To enhance the effectiveness of student services, the quality of residence halls, and the attractiveness and accessibility of the campuses;
• To improve Rutgers’ service to, and reputation among, all the relevant internal and external constituencies, including alumni networks, public schools, and New Jersey’s various racial and ethnic communities;
• To increase Rutgers’ resources to the levels of peer AAU public universities and manage those resources more strategically and efficiently; and
• To continue to develop an administration that will provide leadership for achieving Rutgers’ strategic goals
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Since 2003, cell biologist Philip Furmanski has served Rutgers as the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. In this capacity, Dr. Furmanski is the University’s chief academic and budget officer. He oversees undergraduate and graduate education, research, university budgeting, land grant programs, libraries, enrollment management, financial aid, student affairs, institutional research, continuing education, and the schools, faculties, centers, and institutes on the New Brunswick campus. Dr. Furmanski has made clear his commitment to make Rutgers one of the great state research universities.
Nominations/Applications/Inquiries
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey has retained the services of Auerbach Associates to assist with the search for the Director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership. Nominations and applications, accompanied by a letter discussing the candidate’s relevant experience and accomplishments, curriculum vitae, and the names of three references including their telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, should be submitted to:
Judith A. Auerbach and Kit J. Nichols
Auerbach Associates, Inc.
385 Concord Avenue
Suite 103
Belmont, MA 02478
617. 451.0095 (phone)
617. 489.9111 (fax)
Vicki@auerbach-assc.com (email)
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