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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri">Director</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri">Center for Advanced
Research on Language Acquisition</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri">Position Description</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-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"><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 class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;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 class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;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 class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;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">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/"><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 class=""><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 class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;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 class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;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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