"Dean of School of Communication & Information"

Position Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Dean of School of Communication & Information for the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. The Dean reports to Rutgers–New Brunswick Chancellor Francine Conway and is a member of the chancellor's leadership team. As the school's chief executive and academic officer, the Dean has overall responsibility for defining the school's strategic vision and priorities, developed in concert with the school's faculty and staff in support of the Rutgers–New Brunswick Academic Master Plan (AMP).

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

• Recruits, retains, and supports a faculty of national and global prominence.
• Fosters educational and research programs of the highest quality; attracting, retaining and fostering the success of an outstanding student body.
• Facilitates connections between theory and practice in both research and teaching.
• Fosters and supports externally funded research; engaging in significant development and fundraising to support strategic priorities; and ensuring the short and long-term economic health of the school.
• Serves as the school's primary ambassador, advocate, and spokesperson to external constituencies including alumni, donors, and the greater community.
• Engages a dynamic community of faculty, students, and staff to address the most pressing challenges in communication, information, and media today.
• Provides leadership, support, and mentorship to the school's faculty and staff and is responsible for and stewards the operations and infrastructure of the school.
• Works in concert with other Deans and with Rutgers-New Brunswick and university wide leadership to ensure Rutgers achieves its mission and is prepared to continue to do so into the decades ahead.
• Works together on cross-school collaborations that further the goals of the Academic Master Plan and expand new opportunities for research, teaching, and community engagement.
• Provides leadership for recruiting and retaining excellent students, faculty, and staff.
• Maintains a strong national and global reputation.
• Nurtures student success.
• Fosters communication and collaboration across the school.
• Assures overall effectiveness of the school, its programs, institutes/centers, and services.
• Builds upon the strengths of the school's faculty, staff, and students to enhance their impact on society and in their respective fields.
• Provides leadership in forging key partnerships and collaborations with other schools and units within Rutgers and with external constituencies.
• Oversees strategic planning, faculty and staff development, academic programming, fundraising, and facilities.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Top candidates will have distinguished themselves as scholars in one or more of the disciplines comprising SCI, with demonstrated leadership and strengths as researchers, teachers, and contributors to their academic and scholarly communities.
• The expectation is a record of research, teaching, and service appropriate to an appointment with tenure at the rank of distinguished professor.