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Director, Philip Rauch Center for Business Communication and Professor of Practice in Business

Employer
Lehigh University
Location
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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Lehigh University’s College of Business invites applications for the position of Director of the Philip Rauch Center for Business Communication (RCBC) and Professor of Practice in Business.  The Director will be an educator and administrator who will lead the development and implementation of courses, programs, and services that support excellence in business communication.  The Director will be a collaborative leader who shares Lehigh’s passion for transforming undergraduate students into young professionals ready to effectively deliver evidence-driven, persuasive communications across a variety of complex, often data-intensive business situations.  This is a full-time, twelve-month, non-tenure track position.

 

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, the Director will:

  1. Design, coordinate, teach, assess, and continuously improve two business communications courses in the undergraduate business core curriculum, i.e., BUS 003: Business Communications I and BUS 203: Business Communications II.  The Director will collaborate with faculty teaching prerequisites to the business communication sequence and with professional development staff in the Undergraduate Programs Office to ensure an integrated core experience for students. Teaching load will be up to 6 credits per semester each academic year.
  2. Lead and oversee processes and programs to support the application, reinforcement, and continuous improvement of undergraduates’ business communications skills beyond business communication courses, including both curricular support (i.e., coordinating assessment rubrics for use by business faculty in core and major courses, engaging peer tutoring (TRAC Fellows) within Undergraduate Programs, etc.) and co-curricular programming (e.g., workshops, seminars, coaching case competition teams, etc.).
  3. Manage operations and budget for the Rauch Center for Business Communication, including hiring and oversight of faculty to teach the business communications core course sequence.  The Director will also serve as a member of the Associate Dean's leadership team in the College of Business Undergraduate Programs Office.
  4. Represent the College of Business to constituencies internal and external to Lehigh, and promote communications-related program accomplishments to external audiences in a variety of venues.
  5. Participate in professional networks/associations external to Lehigh to promote the College of Business, engage in the exchange of best practices, and gain ongoing professional development.  The Director will also network and conduct ongoing benchmarking/research to lead best practices with regard to business communications and pedagogy.

Qualifications:  

Master’s (required) and/or doctorate in business, business communications, or a related field, with relevant experience.  Must demonstrate very strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with evidence of professional communications excellence in business organization(s).  Applicants should also provide evidence of teaching effectiveness in corporate, training, and/or higher education settings and have experience in: 

  • Leading with a strategic point of view, including planning that integrated various perspectives, garnering consensus, and implementing for results; 
  • Leveraging contemporary technology to accomplish communication purposes; 
  • Overseeing and allocating resources;
  • Networking/interacting with diverse others to achieve desired results, including forming and sustaining effective partnerships with key constituencies; 
  • Accomplishing work with/through others in positive, collaborative work environments, preferably in a higher education context.

To Apply:  Please apply at Academic Jobs Online at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/18956.  Candidates should submit a cover letter, vita/resume, philosophy of teaching statement, evidence of teaching/training effectiveness, and at least three references and/or letters of reference.  Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.  Inquiries could be addressed to Associate Dean Katrina Zalatan, College of Business, kaz409@lehigh.edu.  

About Lehigh:  Lehigh University is a coeducational, non-denominational, private university that offers a distinct academic environment of undergraduate and graduate students from across the globe. Lehigh presently offers majors and programs in five colleges: The College of Arts and Sciences, The College of Business, The College of Education, The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, and The College of Health. The university serves more than 5,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students. The College of Business and Economics is home to approximately 1,700 undergraduates including two interdisciplinary programs with the Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.  Lehigh’s College of Business and Economics’ undergraduate programs are consistently ranked among the nation’s finest, ranking 24th in Poets and Quants 2021 ratings for the best business programs for undergraduates.

 

Located in eastern Pennsylvania, the campus is situated on more than 2,350 acres in close proximity to both New York City and Philadelphia. Lehigh Valley International Airport is 15 minutes from campus.

 

Lehigh University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Lehigh offers excellent benefits including domestic partner benefits. Furthermore, Lehigh University has in place an infrastructure to address faculty dual career and work life balance matters. Please visit: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inprv/faculty/worklifebalance.html.

 

 

Lehigh University is a 2010 recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant.
Read more at http://www.lehigh.edu/luadvance/

 

Organization

Read our Diversity Profile Founded in 1865, Lehigh University is a premier coeducational, nondenominational, private residential research university that offers a distinctive academic environment for undergraduate and graduate students from across the globe. Lehigh University’s annual report from 2013 provides an overview of the intellectual activity across campus as well as a financial report. It is posted on our website at http://www.lehigh.edu/annualreport/ .

Lehigh offers more than 90 undergraduate programs and majors featuring more than 2,000 courses in four colleges: The College of Arts and Sciences, The College of Business and Economics, The College of Education and The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. Lehigh confers a total of 12 degrees at the undergraduate and advanced degree level. We have 482 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty and approximately 200 adjunct faculty and lecturers and 10 full-time visiting faculty. With approximately 4700 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students, a small student-to-faculty ratio allows students to work closely with professors. About 69% of all full-time faculty are tenured, and 99% of full-time tenure-track faculty hold a doctorate degree or the highest degree in their field.  We have 1,215 staff members supporting the academic, research and administrative functions.

Located in Pennsylvania’s scenic Lehigh Valley, the campus is in close proximity to both New York City and Philadelphia. Lehigh is situated on over 2,300 acres on four campuses. The Asa Packer Campus, Mountaintop Campus, and Murray H. Goodman Campus are contiguous and feature more than 153 buildings with 4.3 million-plus square feet of classroom, laboratory, office and living space. The campus also has 180 acres of playing fields and half of the campus is preserved as open space.

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