Job description:
The Center for Integrative Leadership is a partnership between the Humphrey Institute and the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and includes faculty from several other colleges of the University. The center's mission is to transform individuals, groups, organizations, and society through integrative leadership to foster collective action to advance the common good. The center's vision is to be world-renowned for research, instruction, personal and organizational development, outreach, and problem solving that integrates efforts across academic disciplines and social sectors. The person selected for this position will have a significant role in helping to achieve this vision, in part through a demonstrated ability to integrate teaching, research, and service activities.
Employment responsibilities:
The Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota seeks applications to fill a tenured position at the Associate or Full Professor level in leadership studies.
The successful candidate must have strong and demonstrated teaching, research, and public engagement interests in leadership studies or in fields directly relevant to leadership studies. Candidates must be willing and able to contribute to the University's new Center for Integrative Leadership, teach in the Institute's core curriculum, provide leadership to its master's degree programs, demonstrate a willingness to help prepare students for careers in public affairs, and function collaboratively in a multi- and inter-disciplinary college, and with external constituencies.
Essential qualifications:
A Ph.D. or equivalent foreign degree is required in leadership studies, public policy, public administration, management, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, communication, economics, urban planning, or related fields with a focus on leadership.
Preferred qualifications:
An interdisciplinary social science background that includes institutional, political, and cross-cultural knowledge and competence is highly valued. The Institute is especially interested in candidates who have a demonstrated interest in leadership as it relates to institutional, social, and organizational change. Professional experience in leadership positions is highly desirable. We seek someone whose approach to teaching and research is innovative and inclusive in terms of race, gender, class and ethnicity.
Appointment details:
Applications should include a curriculum vita, the names and addresses of three references, a sample of recent research, and a brief account of research, a brief account of research and teaching interests and experience, and a statement detailing fit with the position. Applications will be reviewed beginning December 10, 2007. The position will remain open until filled. Please submit applications online to: https://employment.umn.edu and reference requisition number 149928. Adress cover and reference letters (if not submitted online) to: Associate Dean John M. Bryson, Chair of CIL Search, c/o Human Resources, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 152 HHH Center, 301 - 19th Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
Email: lanex025@umn.edu.
Salary will be commensurate with experience. Benefits include health, dental, faculty life/disability insurance, retirement, and social security. The starting date for this appointment is August 25, 2008, or as soon thereafter as possible.
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