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Faculty Honorifics Coordinator / Project Manager

Employer
Michigan State University
Location
East Lansing

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Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution
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Job Details

Job no: 755675
Work type: Support Staff
Pay Grade: 13
Major Administrative Unit / College: Provost And Academic Affairs
Department: Provost Evp For Academic Affairs 10050692
Sub Area: AP- Professionals
Salary: Salary Commensurate with Experience
Location: East Lansing
Categories: Administrative/Business/Professional, Administrative Professionals- AP, Full Time (90-100%), Union
Working/Functional Title

Faculty Honorifics Coordinator

Position Summary

The Faculty Honorifics Coordinator creates pathways to elevate MSU both nationally and globally and provides opportunities for nominations for internal and external honors and awards. The coordinator builds internal and external alliances, nurtures cross functional collaborations, and creates partnerships that deliver avenues for the growth and recognition of MSU faculty and academic staff.

The coordinator works closely and partners with the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of Institutional Research, Office of Research and Innovation, University Communications, colleges, faculty, and other key stakeholder groups. The coordinator provides insight and synergies that cultivate and coordinate opportunities for faculty nominations. Providing direction and thought leadership this position will develop strategic goals and objectives for honorifics. Working closely with the Office of Institutional Research, the Faculty Honorifics Coordinator defines associated metrics to measure results, ensuring institutional goals are achieved.

Areas of responsibility:

  • Lead and coordinate MSU’s honorifics initiative across the institution.
  • Provide a comprehensive strategy designed to continually grow and improve the honorifics initiative and build internal/external engagement.
  • Develop and execute processes for nominating faculty, including collaboration with key stakeholders, track nominations and outcomes.
  • Conduct an environmental scan for opportunities and peer benchmarking – both short term and long term – for faculty and academic staff in concert with Institutional Research.
  • Helps develop potential pathways to advance faculty nomination and recognition culture to senior administrative leadership, key faculty, and academic staff.
  • Works with the faculty nominees and relevant partners (such as Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Dean’s Offices) to prepare effective nomination materials and strategy for support, including: developing templates of criteria and letter structures, drafting and/or revising nomination materials, outreach to internal and external nominators if appropriate, and submission of final nomination packages.
  • Work with campus wide leadership and communications to increase program profile, reputation, visibility, and support.
  • Partners with academic and administrative units to continue to innovate and enhance faculty nomination and recognition processes.
  • Collaborates with internal/external partners to implement changes designed to improve/increase program/project goals/objectives.
  • Reviews & analyzes outcome measures and recommends changes & enhancements that will innovate and invigorate the program.
    • Unit Specific Education/Experience/Skills

    The job requires: Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in Business Administration, Management or field related to the employing unit; three to five years of related and progressively more expansive work experience in project management, business analysis, facilitating/training with a focus on business management; workflow process analysis and implementation of strategic initiatives or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

    Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with structuring and developing datasets.
  • Strong written, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
  • Ability to self-prioritize workload including managing multiple projects at once
  • Provide consultation, feedback, and direction across with all facets of the university
  • Works independently and in a team environment.
  • Ability to work under pressure and prioritize.
    • Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

    Required Application Materials

    Cover letter and resume.

    Together-we-will StatementThe university is requiring all MSU students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with limited exceptions. Learn more at: https://msu.edu/together-we-will/Work Hours

    STANDARD 8-5

    Bidding Eligibility ends 1/18/2022 at 11:55 PM

    Advertised: Jan 12, 2022 Eastern Standard Time
    Applications close: Jan 25, 2022 Eastern Standard Time

    Organization

    Working at Michigan State University 

    Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.

    Together, we tackle some of the world’s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better—from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.

    We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.

    We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.

    The nation’s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.

    Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world—on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we’re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.

    In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.

    Top Distinctions

    U.S. News & World Report ranks MSU

    • 29th among the nation’s public universities
    • First in the nation for 19 years for graduate programs in elementary and secondary education
    • First in the nation for graduate programs in nuclear physics and industrial and organizational psychology
    • First in the nation for undergraduate program in supply chain

    Recognized for 11 consecutive years as one of the top 100 universities in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in its annual Academic Ranking of World Universities

    Ranks 46th among public universities for in-state students in Kiplinger’s 2013 edition of Best Values in Public Colleges

    Silver rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s STARS program, which measures and encourages sustainability in education and research; operations; and planning, administration, and engagement

    Member of the prestigious 62-member Association of American Universities

    Only university in the country with on-campus medical schools graduating allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) physicians, and veterinarians (DVMs)

    Among the largest single-campus residence hall system in the country with 27 halls in five neighborhoods and two apartment villages.

     

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