Description:
The Assistant Director works with and reports to the Director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, supporting many facets of the Center’s operations, with a special focus on the planning and management of student research and engagement activities. This work involves collaboration with other Center staff and academic personnel of the program, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students. The Assistant Director supports graduate and undergraduate student experiences in the humanities by enhancing research excellence and public humanities programming for those audiences. The Assistant Director also contributes to many other aspects of the Center’s mission to support innovative research, education, and vibrant community engagement.
Job Description
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Program Planning
- Collaborates with Center leadership on long-range planning, mission, and program development, including new projects and initiatives.
- Serves as a representative of the Center to the College, the Office of Graduate Studies, the university, to St. Louis, and to the broader humanities community.
- Develops and maintains collaborations with others in the humanities community.
- Develops programming to enhance the research capacities of graduate and undergraduate students (including and in particular Center graduate and undergraduate fellows).
- Works with others on planning and executing all the Center’s signature annual events.
Student Engagement (Graduate and Undergraduate)
- Helps to build and maintain programs engaging with WashU graduate and undergraduate students, including but not limited to experiential learning, skills training, professional development, individual and collaborative research, curricular opportunities, etc.
- Works with other Center staff and partners to develop the Center’s public humanities programming for students.
- Identifies/pursues appropriate collaborative research opportunities that will advance the core missions of the Center and student engagement efforts.
- Collaborate with the Office of Graduate Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences and other key campus constituencies.
- Assists in developing a public humanities certificate for graduate students.
- Advances the strategic planning efforts of Arts & Sciences and the broader university through programs aligned with those goals and specific areas such as digital transformation, social justice, literacies, and environmental issues.
- May supervise staff.