Rice 360 Director of Education

Job Description

Special Instructions to Applicants: All interested applicants should attach a resume and cover letter in the Supporting Documents section of the application, preferably in PDF format to avoid any formatting issues.

About Rice: Boasting a 300-acre, tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has a 6-to-1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio and a residential college system that supports students intellectually, emotionally, and culturally through social events, intramural sports, student plays, lecture series, courses, and student government. Developing close-knit, diverse college communities is a strong campus tradition, which is why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life and best value among private universities.

Rice is also a wonderful place to work. Rice faculty, staff, and students share values that are essential to our success as a healthy community. Those values guide our decisions and behaviors and shape Rice’s culture. They come through in the way we treat each other and the welcome we extend to our visitors. These values can be recalled simply by our name — RICE — Responsibility, Integrity, Community, and Excellence.

Position Summary: The Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies (Rice360), a multidisciplinary institute at Rice University, is a leader in global health technology education, research, and implementation, with a distinctive focus on experiential and problem-based learning. Rice360’s 43 faculty members from 15 departments and five schools collaborate to develop highly effective, low-cost medical technology solutions addressing critical healthcare needs in underserved communities and educating a cadre of future leaders to continue to innovate and implement solutions.

Rice360 offers a number of award-winning experiential education programs, including a Global Health Technologies (GLHT) undergraduate minor and graduate certificate, international bidirectional internships and design competition, and post-baccalaureate fellowships. GLHT program participants engage directly in the design, prototyping, benchtop testing, clinical evaluation, and implementation of innovative new technologies.

Rice360 works closely with partners throughout the world, from low- and middle-income countries to the United States. Rice360 collaborators can be found within Rice University, the Texas Medical Center, and other educational and medical institutions in the U.S. and across the globe. Rice360 has staff located in Blantyre, Malawi; Nairobi, Kenya; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Lagos, Nigeria, who support in-country education and research partnerships.

The Director of Education, under the supervision of the Rice360 Co-Directors and Rice360 Executive Director, leads the Rice360 GLHT education programs and is responsible for the GLHT graduate certificate and GLHT undergraduate minor, notably teaching the introductory and capstone courses, curriculum development and maintaining accreditation, design project scoping and team mentorship, overseeing the international bidirectional internships, design competition, and research awards, and managing educational outreach efforts and partnerships across the invention education network.