Associate​/Full Professor & Director - Institute Community Inclusion

General Summary

The College of Education and Human Development is seeking a tenured, equity-minded leader who can advance our college mission, in leading the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI). The Director will also hold a qualified Associate/Full Professor position in an academic unit within the College of Education and Human Development. The Director is responsible for providing overall direction and oversight for the ICI thereby implementing the ICI's mission and values.

The Director will work with senior staff to integrate operations, program development, strategic planning, academic and scholarly pursuits and external relationships across all interested partners and entities. The incumbent will be the public leader of the ICI and will help facilitate the integration of the activities of the ICI into the activities of the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD) and the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), as well as other institutes and centers of the University of Massachusetts Boston;

and coordinate all ICI activities occurring at Boston Children's Hospital. Specific areas of responsibility include strategic planning, organizational leadership and development, management of the ICI's diverse programs and functions. The Director will supervise the Associate Director and core senior faculty/staff. The Director serves as the director of the University Center on Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and holds an appointment at Boston Children's Hospital.

The incumbent is expected to lead with innovation, new ideas for future directions and growth, integrate with the college and be entrepreneurial in creating funding opportunities and partnerships that are not traditionally available. The incumbent will work in collaboration with the Associate Director and other senior leadership staff of the and will assume responsibility for the strategic development of new directions, develop and/or oversee the development of a portfolio of grants, contracts, fee for service and internal, as well as external funding;

and be responsible for the development and maintenance of relationships with external public and private entities, organizations and programs in and outside of the University and Hospital community. The ICI has a distributed workforce, and the Director needs to ensure that staff have shared identity / commitment to the mission and a collaborative work ethic across projects and regions.

• Oversee and direct the Institute for Community Inclusion's (ICI's) leadership structure (including strategic planning, organizational design and management); help set future directions for the ICI addressing high priority needs in research, training, service, capacity development, innovation and policy development across the life span of persons with disabilities; guide the ICI in the recruitment of staff and the development of new partnerships;
  
  and serve as the overall manager of all ICI activities at the planning, operational, implementation and financial levels.
• Work with funding entities (e.g., foundations, federal) and local/state/federal/international agencies and/or organizations in developing additional resources to support the mission and programs of the ICI; work with funding entities, professionals, educators, researchers, policy makers, community programs and providers of services, families, persons with disabilities, elected officials and public entities in addressing high priority needs and areas of interest in the research, training, technology, technical assistance, capacity development, policy development, program innovation and dissemination at the international, national, state, regional and local levels.
• Foster the creation, maintenance and advancement of collaborative working relationships with allied entities, including international, federal, state and local public and private agencies and organizations, trade associations, professional organizations, institutions of higher education and the private sector (businesses, community human service programs, consumer organizations as well as advocacy organizations);
• Manage the development of materials that will facilitate knowledge generation, capacity building and replication of promising or evidence based practices in the disability community; support the dissemination of materials and findings through academic vehicles (journals, peer reviewed publications, conference presentations, curricula development), ICI publications, public media, advocacy entities and formal pre-service and in-service training for professionals and leaders in the disability community nationally as well as internationally;
• Guide and advance the establishment of evidence-based practices that will insure the inclusion of persons with disabilities regardless of age or condition in community settings;
• Develop and expand the relationship of the ICI within CEHD academic departments, centers, and institutes as well as other Colleges at…