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The School of Arts and Humanities is a unique academic school at UC San Diego. Established in 1963, it encompasses six academic departments, a wide range of interdisciplinary programs and research centers and nationally and internationally recognized faculty. We offer more than 100 undergraduate majors and graduate programs to explore the many facets of human experience. Students are supported and guided by preeminent thinkers in our faculty, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award and the MacArthur 'genius grant' Fellowship, whose teaching is consistently recognized in the top at UC San Diego and across the University of California. Faculty research is supported by Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Fulbright fellowships, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Uniquely poised on a scientifically-renowned campus, our students and faculty have unprecedented access to new thoughts, experiments and technologies that are reshaping the human experience.

The School of Arts and Humanities Mission: An Education for the Common Good.

• Our distinctive undergraduate majors and minors promote experiential learning in typically small class settings, integrate research with creative activity, and emphasize interdisciplinary thinking and social responsibility.

• Our graduate programs combine the best of theoretical and practical inquiry, and pursue opportunities for scholarly and professional engagement and bold artistic experimentation in state-of-the-art facilities.

• Our award-winning faculty connects the dots between teaching and research in order to produce exceptional academic scholarship and creative work marked by innovation and civic engagement.

• Home to a diversity of people and ideas, the School reflects a spirit of inclusiveness, a global perspective, and the cultivation of integrity, compassion, civility and ethical behavior as foundational to an education for the common good.

Vision and Values: Foundational, Transferable, Enduring.

As part of a comprehensive university, we pledge to educate the whole individual. We are committed to our students' life-long success, and their emotional, social, and ethical growth, with an eye to:

• stimulating creativity and critical thinking
• developing transferable skills for rapidly changing professional environments
• fostering mindfulness and a thoughtful interior life
• defining, evaluating, and conveying shared core beliefs
• cultivating an enduring ethic of caring, social engagement, and service.

Please visit: https://ah.ucsd.edu/about/mission-vision.html

The Assistant Dean for Strategic Engagement oversees and coordinates the management of the School's strategic initiatives involving internal relations, external sponsor outreach, high school outreach (including the partnership with SD Unified School District's VAPA (Visual And Performing Arts) program), events and community outreach, and partnerships with local community colleges, including continuing efforts with the Preparing Accomplished Transfers in the Humanities (PATH) program. Serves as a member of the Dean's Senior leadership team and as the Staff Equity Advisor for the School. Works in partnership with the Dean and leadership team to spearhead strategic initiatives, establish metrics, drive strategic decision-making and ensure results.

Designs a comprehensive set of strategic approaches aimed at external and internal opportunities for Arts and Humanities academic departments, institutes, centers and various other programs. In collaboration with the Senior leadership team, formulates and implements the external sponsor and extramural programs' strategic direction and business plan. Develops and implements a comprehensive community engagement program for Arts and Humanities that includes staff engagement, faculty engagement, external sponsor engagement, and the promotion of the School's identity. Leads efforts to identify and address education needs in the marketplace (including critical training and educational issues) and implements innovative approaches and solutions that align with the school's needs and strategies.

Strategic Advisor to Leaders in 6 Academic Departments: History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Theatre and Dance, Visual Arts, Institute of Arts and Humanities,, Institute for Practical Ethics, Center for Taiwan Studies, Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts,Mandeville Art Gallery.

• Hybrid work environment.

• Must be willing to travel domestically and internationally.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree in communication, public policy, marketing or related field, or eight to ten (8 - 10) yea

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