Assistant/Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management

Renewable Term/Tenure-Track Appointment

School of Design Strategies

Parsons School of Design

Start date: July 1, 2024

Parsons School of Design, a college of The New School, acknowledges the ancestral and traditional territories of The Lenape People on which our faculty, staff and students work, learn, and create. We recognize that New York City has the largest urban Indigenous population in the United States.

We invite candidates for a renewable term or tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management in the School of Design Strategies. This appointment will begin July 1, 2024.

Candidates should articulate ideas to collaboratively discover and prototype next-generation teaching, learning, and practice of one or more of the following areas: leadership, project facilitation, design research methods, strategy, and social and/or sustainable innovation. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research or professional/creative practice relates to issues of equity and inclusion in the teaching, learning, and pedagogical practices of strategic design and management.

The New School is strongly committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and particularly seeks applications from members of underrepresented groups, as well as candidates who share this commitment.

Responsibilities

The work of this faculty member is divided between (1) teaching, (2) scholarship or professional/creative practice, and (3) university service. The standard teaching load is five courses––or the equivalent––per academic year. Within their field of expertise, the faculty member will be expected to teach undergraduate, including First Year, as well as graduate courses, to majors and non-majors. They will hold regular office hours, and participate in extracurricular teaching activities such as critiques, review panels, thesis supervision, independent study, and advising. University service includes program, Parsons, and New School assignments on committees and task forces, and as program directors or associate directors with a reduced teaching load in graduate and undergraduate programs, including the undergraduate First Year. All faculty are expected to be engaged with scholarship or professional/creative practice at a level commensurate with their faculty rank.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION

• Graduate degree, or equivalent professional experience, in business, design, or related field.
• Active/current professional practice or creative/critical scholarship with evidence of significant creative and professional achievement.
• Experience in professional/creative practice that centers anti-racism, intersectional understandings of justice (including but not limited to racial justice, social justice, and environmental justice), inclusion and/or sustainability in the areas of design, business, and/or management, financial management, supply chain management, operations, marketing, innovation, and strategy.
• Two years teaching at college, university, community-based, and/or secondary education level with evidence of engagement with course and syllabus development/planning.
• Candidates seeking a position at Associate level must demonstrate equivalent teaching, research/practice experience, service and successful completion of academic review.
• Plans, suggestions, articulation of specifics to work collaboratively across Parsons and the University.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team, as a collaborator or lead.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, including the ability to meet deadlines, communicate and motivate effectively.
• Evidence of a commitment to educational equity in teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
• Evidence of cross-cultural communication skills in teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
• Demonstrated interest in/building the ability to mentor and support students from diverse backgrounds, to develop and nurture the individual student’s abilities, and a strong commitment to progressive education. This evidence can be in a candidate’s teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
• Evidence of a commitment to diversity and inclusion (in classroom, campus, community) in teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Demonstrated ability and interest to teach and lead these courses in the BBA Strategic Design and Management program: Financial Management, Global Professional Practices, Innovation, Strategic Management, and/or Marketing, Branding, and PR.
• Experience in higher education academic setting, with a working knowledge of curriculum development, student support, and management.
• Experience teaching English language learners, students from low income backgrounds, and first generation college students.
• University-level teaching that includes a combination of studios, seminars, and tutorials, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Experience with/commitment to curricular and community-building work for first-year college students; capacity to lead in the context of a first-year studies program.
• Understanding, proficiency and evidence of excellent design, visual and verbal communication skills.
  
  

WORK MODALITY

On-Campus Position: Faculty are expected to work on-campus due to the nature of the work in accordance with the University policies as set forth in the Full-Time Faculty Handbook.

SALARY RANGE

Assistant Professor: $94,000 - $109,000

Associate Professor: $108,000 - $123,000

Priority Application Deadline: February 29, 2024

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS

To Apply, Please Submit

• A current CV
• A cover letter: 1-2 pages summarizing experiences as related to the requirements of this job description
• A teaching statement: 1-2 pages describing artistic / design / research practice and teaching philosophy. Please include in the statement an articulation of your approach to inclusive pedagogy and demonstrated evidence of commitment to equity, inclusion and social justice.
• The names and contact information for three professional references
• 1 sample syllabus with assignments
  
  

Longlisted Candidates Will Be Asked To Provide

• 3-5 examples of student work mentored by the applicant
  
  

Please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/academics for a full list of programs.

We look forward to receiving your application!