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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Director</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Position Description</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Job ID # 306957</span></i></p>
<h4><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Position Overview</span></h4>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">The CARLA Director provides overall academic leadership for the
</span><a href="http://www.carla.umn.edu" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: rgb(102,0,102)">Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)</span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">, one of 16 National
Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The CARLA Director plays a vital role in shaping the Center's mission, serves as Principal Investigator of the center's foundational Language Resource Center grant and other major grants,
seeks additional funding consistent with the center's overall mission, supervises the Center’s administrative and programmatic staff, carries out research, provides oversight of summer institutes and workshops focused on second language acquisition and teaching,
and directs the dissemination of the Center's work to the broader academic and language teaching community in the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Education and Human Development, the University, and across the country.</span></p>
<h4><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Position Duties</span></h4>
<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">1. Academic leadership (40%)</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Provide ongoing leadership and direction for the scholarly and pedagogical content of CARLA's projects and professional development programs including the Center's Language Resource Center projects such
as conferences on immersion education and language teacher education (international); the CARLA summer institute program (international); the Minnesota Professional Development Consortium workshops (regional); the CARLA presentation series (campus-wide); and
other special events.</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Continue/develop a sustainable program of research and publication directly related to CARLA’s mission.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Serve as Principal Investigator for CARLA's USDE Title VI LRC Program grant, shaping quadrennial proposal content and supervising the directors of LRC projects.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Oversee the Center's budgets, working closely with the CARLA Executive Assistant Director to make budgetary decisions.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Oversee overall content of professional development initiatives, to maximize collaboration and broad dissemination to the language teaching community, both nationally and locally, especially in partnership
with the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Language Center and with the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD).</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Design and supervise program evaluation and reporting for program analysis and improvement.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Report regularly to the Associate Vice President and Dean of Global Programs and Strategy Alliance, serve on GPS Directors Board and International Program Committee.</span>
</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">2. Research and advising for instructors of language programs in CLA (25%)</span></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">In collaboration with the CLA Language Center Director and Directors of Language Programs, provide research expertise to instructors of CLA language programs.</span></a></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Provide SLA expertise and support for professional and curricular development projects in CLA.</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Facilitate collaboration with the Language Center leadership to cultivate research opportunities for CLA language instructors, graduate students, and staff.</span></p>
<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">3. Grant-seeking and resource-seeking (15%)</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Identify Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from funding organizations whose missions coincide with those of the Center, and supervise the writing of proposals in collaboration with academic partners and Center
staff.</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Write research and professional development proposals on topics in the Director's own areas of expertise.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Partner with CARLA Executive Committee members in their grant-seeking and grant-delivery efforts, acting as consultant to meet their needs for professional development work in connection with their grant
projects.</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Work with the GPS Alliance Senior Development Officer to create and carry out a development plan for the Center that engages the resources of community partners.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Work with CARLA Executive Assistant Director to create and deliver a dissemination and publicity system to maximize the Center's connections and community good will for the mission of the Center.</span>
</li></ul>
<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">4. Disseminate the Center's resources and professional development work (15%)</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Teach a weeklong CARLA summer institute annually on a topic related to the Director's own areas of expertise. (For background information see:
<i><a href="http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/index.html</a></i>)
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Present the Center's work at state and national professional conferences to a wide audience of language teaching professionals.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Meet with other Language Resource Center directors and coordinators annually at the ACTFL Conference, collaborating with them to maximize resources through strategic partnerships.</span>
</li></ul>
<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">5. Supervise CARLA personnel (5%)</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Supervise CARLA's Executive Assistant Director, who is responsible for project execution, budget management and monitoring, and the summer institute program, and program staff, who are responsible for
designing and delivering academic projects the Center is funded to carry out.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Supervise the heads of CARLA projects.</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Organize and participate in Center searches for program staff, and oversee their hiring and layoff, in accordance with grant funding.</span>
</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Required Qualifications</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Ph.D. or Ed.D. in areas related to second language acquisition and teaching</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Demonstrated scholarship, background and experience in language education</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Knowledge about key national and international issues related to language education</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Documented evidence of management ability, organizational and interpersonal skills, and strong public relations skills</span>
</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Preferred Qualifications</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Demonstrated leadership and professional involvement in foreign language education</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Demonstrated success in writing, procuring, and managing grants</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Demonstrated interdisciplinary team-building success in academic and/or non-academic settings</span>
</li></ul>
<h4><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Position Details</span></h4>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">100%, 12-month, annually-renewable, Professional and Academic Administrative (P&A) position - Education Program Manager 4</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Salary range - $80,000-$106,000 annually (depending on qualifications)</span>
</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Application Instructions</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></span></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Applications </span><u><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">must</span></u><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"> be submitted online at:
</span><a href="http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/employment/" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/employment/</span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">The job ID # is </span><span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">306957</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">. In the online system, you will be given the opportunity to complete an online application
for the position and attach a cover letter and résumé. </span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Please list the names and contact info of your references at the end of your résumé.</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></span></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Required Documents</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Resume or CV <b>including a list of 3 professional references</b></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Cover Letter</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Review of applications will begin on
<b>March 1, 2016</b>.<b></b></span></p>
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