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Senior Associate Director - Illinois Fire Service Institute (147486)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Champaign, IL

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Senior Associate Director

Illinois Fire Service Institute

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. We serve the state, the nation, and the world by creating knowledge, preparing students for lives of impact, and addressing critical societal needs through the transfer and application of knowledge. As the statutory fire academy for Illinois, the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) serves firefighters throughout Illinois and the world. World-class instructors deliver more than 14,000 class hours to students online, on campus and at regional training centers throughout the state. IFSI is operated as a continuing education and public service activity by the University of Illinois.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

PRIMARY POSITION FUNCTION/SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for the day-to-day direction of all academic training and education programs at the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI). In addition, this position provides executive decision-making authority, is responsible for the full direction of education and training operations and participates in the policy-making executive team. This position also is responsible for all aspects of the Institute in the absence of the Director.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Administrative:

  • Serve as the primary advisor to the Director regarding the Institute, including the academic and training program, program development, oversight of program delivery, and instructor supervision, with operational policy-making authority.
  • Participate in the Institute executive team for planning, programming, budgeting, and program execution oversight, policymaking, and decision-making.
  • Responsible for directing the day-to-day operations of the Institute’s academic and training programs, including program development, oversight of program delivery, and instructional staff, with operational policy-making authority.
  • Provide authoritative, detailed professional and technical knowledge on fire service operations.
  • Responsible for IFSI grant management and resources including the oversight of all phases of grants and serving as a Principal Investigator for IFSI grants.

Supervision:

  • Direct the selection and training process for academic field staff.
  • Determine academic staff representation of the Institute on national and State fire service certification standards committees.
  • In collaboration with the Director, manages resources, determines staff functions, and sets operating policies associated within the Institute.

Other Duties:

  • Provide internal staff and fire service instruction in a wide range of fire service subject matter, including presentations nationally and internationally.
  • Act as an executive representative and liaison with national fire organizations, the Illinois Fire Service, and the University of Illinois and represents the Institute on associated committees.
  • Coordinates with Institute research staff to guide research projects and works with other campus and private units to conduct fire-related research activities.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

  1. Broad understanding of the fire service in Illinois
  2. Broad understanding of firefighting education and training programs, courses, instruction, and online delivery methods
  3. Ability to lead and work with a wide variety of fire and non-fire individuals and organizations
  4. Demonstrated executive management and leadership abilities
  5. Visionary leadership
  6. Ability to begin achieving results rapidly, without significant time spent learning the job and building credibility
  7. Demonstrated record of performance? ability to lead and work well with others
  8. Practical problem-solver and team-builder
  9. Broad understanding of University organization and operations

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

  1. Bachelor's degree
  2. Minimum of 15 years fire suppression experience, preferably both volunteer and career
  3. Minimum of 3.5 years’ service as a Chief Officer in a department serving a community of over 50,000 people, budget experience (including operational training and equipment) exceeding $30 million, and supervision of 100 or more people
  4. Demonstrated experience in grant writing and management experience
  5. Experience teaching in hands-on firefighting training as field staff or equivalent
  6. Demonstrated experience in curriculum review and development and testing processes and procedures
  7. Demonstrated experience with IFSI programs, as Program Director, Program Manager or Regional Rep

Preferred:

  1. Master’s degree
  2. Demonstrated experience as an IFSI Directorate Director or equivalent
  3. Demonstrated experience in management of Illinois Terrorism Task Force grants
  4. Practical problem-solver and team-builder
  5. At least ten years’ experience as a fire service instructor
  6. Sound, fundamental understanding of and experience in firefighting, and hands-on firefighter training

TRAINING, LICENSE OR CERTIFICATIONS

Required:

  1. OSFM or CFPSE Chief Fire Officer Designation
  2. Instructor I and II certification

Preferred:

  1. CFPSE Chief Training Officer Designation
  2. Instructor III certification

SALARY AND APPOINTMENT INFORMATION

This is a full-time Academic Professional position appointed on a 12-month service basis. The expected start date is as soon as possible after the close of the search. Salary will be commensurate with experience.

To Apply:

Applications must be received by July 6, 2021. Apply for this position using the “Apply for Position” button below. If you have not applied before, you must create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu. If you already have a profile, you will be redirected to that existing profile via email notification. To complete the application process please provide:

  • cover letter
  • resume (months and years of employment must be included)
  • academic credentials (unofficial transcripts or copy of diploma may be acceptable) for all degrees attained (if you want to specifically spell out bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees here, you can)
  • names/contact information for three references

Applications not submitted through this website will not be considered. For further information about this specific position, contact Keri Frederick, klfreder@illinois.edu. For questions about the application process, please contact 217-333-2137.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Convictions are not a bar to employment. Other pre-employment assessments may be required, depending on the classification of Civil Service employment.

As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment

The University of Illinois must also comply with applicable federal export control laws and regulations and, as such, reserves the right to employ restricted party screening procedures for applicants.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Fire Service Institute Category:2-Administrative Title:Senior Associate Director - Illinois Fire Service Institute (147486) Open Date:06/09/2021 Close Date:07/06/2021 Organization Name:Fire Service Institute

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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