Program Director of Engagement

Program Director of Engagement

Location:

Notre Dame, IN, United States;

Employment type:

Full-time;
Department:
Provost;
Level: M1

For over 180 years, the University of Notre Dame has been a leading American research university, offering a distinct perspective in higher education. This Catholic institution, based in Notre Dame, Indiana, is driven by a powerful blend of faith and intellectual curiosity, consistently pursuing excellence in education, groundbreaking research, and service to society. Notre Dame fosters a welcoming and vibrant campus where students, faculty, and staff are united in their commitment to creating an inclusive community and making a difference in the world.

For individuals passionate about innovation, ethical leadership, and leveraging world‑class facilities and renowned academic programs, Notre Dame provides a dynamic and impactful career path.

Are you interested in joining a highly collaborative, talented team at an exciting time in the history of Notre Dame? Do you want to help advance a major strategic priority for the University focused on ethics, including AI ethics and the love ethic? Are you motivated to be part of a dynamic team that assists scholars, corporate, faith communities, and non‑profits leaders to tackle ethically complex issues?

Do you want to lead a public engagement campaign that will elevate Notre Dame's impact and reputation in ethics? If so, please apply to be the Program Director of Engagement for the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative (ND‑EI) and the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good (ECG).

Emerging from the University's Strategic Framework, ND‑EI is a collaborative cross‑campus initiative to establish Notre Dame as a premier university for research in ethics, offering superb training for future generations of ethicists and ethical leaders and directing all of our efforts toward guiding and strengthening public understanding of the most significant ethical issues of our time. The Institute for Ethics and the Common Good is the administrative flagship of the Ethics Initiative and serves as the primary home for interdisciplinary groups of faculty fellows, researchers, non‑profit and faith leaders, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate scholars studying questions that engage complex ethical challenges of our time and affect our ability to lead valuable, meaningful lives.

Over the next five years the ECG will execute three major grants: one from IBM to advance technology ethics, one from the John Templeton Foundation focused on love and its role in social transformation, and one from the Lilly Endowment Inc., to forward and expand DELTA, a faith‑based ethical framework which seeks to shape a Christian‑inspired vision of humanity in an AI‑driven world.

The DELTA grant is the largest private grant in Notre Dame's history.

Reporting to the Managing Director of the EI and ECG, the Program Director of Engagement will develop and lead the public engagement strategy and direction for the Institute. This includes responsibility for major components of the DELTA Network funded by a $50M grant from the Lilly Endowment, the Love Ethic Network funded by a $10M grant from the John Templeton Foundation, and the ND‑IBM Technology Ethics Lab funded by a $20M grant from IBM.

Each of these grants requires significant network‑building and public engagement deliverables. The program director will also advance the Institute's academic and mission‑driven reputation in the field of ethics by making more visible the impact research, teaching, formation, and network building has on complex ethical issues of our times.

To accomplish this, the Program Director of Engagement will lead the creation and deployment of a cohesive and integrated strategic branding and communications program to build awareness of Notre Dame's strength and commitment to virtue ethics and human formation and flourishing, including AI ethics. With University and Institute leadership, and in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, OPAC's Strategic Communications and ND Creative teams, the Program Director of Engagement will…