Job Description
Director of Engaged Scholarship and Pedagogy
with Assistant Teaching Professor title OR Assistant Research Professor title
Read full description here: https://csj.georgetown.edu/about/work-at-the-csj/
Job Overview
As a part of the country’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university reporting to the President’s Office through the Division of Student Affairs, the Center for Social Justice (CSJ) animates the University’s Jesuit values and mission through its work in research, teaching, and service. A component of the work includes keeping with Georgetown University’s mission to educate people to be reflective lifelong learners and responsible and active participants in civic life and service to others and consistent with the university’s Catholic and Jesuit identity and its institutional commitment to pursuing justice and the common good.
The Director of Engaged Scholarship and Pedagogy (DoESP) grew out of CSJ’s previous positions of Director of Research and Evaluation and, before that, Evaluation Specialist. In this iteration, the DoESP oversees and leads the CSJ’s research and teaching pillars of work and accompanying portfolio of programming utilizing our preferred applied pedagogies: immersion, dialogue, community-engaged teaching, and community-based research. The DoESP serves on the Center’s leadership team and has a visible and vocal presence on the University’s “Main Campus” as the CSJ supports our University’s commitment to engaged scholarship and pedagogies for social change. This position comes with an affiliated Assistant Teaching Professor title with a 3-year renewable term.
Work Interactions
CSJ’s Director of Engaged Scholarship works with students, faculty, staff, senior leadership, relevant University units, and diverse Washington, DC-based and global partners in various facets of its portfolio.
For research work, the position communicates with the Provost Office and the Institutional Review Board (IRB); and collaborates with the Center for Fellowships and Research (CRF) and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, as well as other relevant units depending on the work.
For pedagogy work, the DoESP may partner with the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNLDS); Lauinger Library’s Digital Scholarship colleagues; The Red House; The Capitol Applied Learning Lab (CALL); the Office of Mission and Ministry, or other relevant units depending on the work.
This position’s manager is the CSJ’s Executive Director; the DoESP is jointly supervised by CSJ’s Executive Director and CSJ’s Faculty Director. This position works with the entire Center for Social Justice professional team, and serves on the CSJ’s leadership team. This position supervises/manages three professional team members at the CSJ, one Justice Graduate Intern (JGI), and potential undergraduate Federal Work Study employees.
Work Mode Designation
This position has been designated as Hybrid. Please note that work mode designations are regularly reviewed in order to meet the evolving needs of the University. Such review may necessitate a change to a position’s mode of work designation. Complete details about Georgetown University’s mode of work designations for staff and AAP positions can be found on the Department of Human Resources website: https://hr.georgetown.edu/mode-of-work-designation.
Requirements and Qualifications
● Ph.D., Ed.D. or terminal degree required
● Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a higher education setting (This time can overlap with the applicant’s post-graduate education.)
● Strong record of and commitment to engaged scholarship and/or advocacy-based research, pedagogies for social change, and/or a mission-driven higher education experience
● Demonstrated experience leading co-curricular, experiential learning activities, including familiarity with content creation and curation, logistics, compliance, risk, and basic budgeting
● Experience working with higher education students and familiarity with university culture
● Experience providing an established comfort in communicating with a broad array of constituents, including faculty, staff, senior leadership, students, and community partners with diverse/interfaith/non-faith identities, while navigating faith-based contexts
● Commitment to marginalized communities, and significant evidence of diversity, inclusion, and justice work in career to date and plans to stay current in these commitments
● Demonstrated experience creating strategic partnerships across departments and stakeholders
● Capable project manager and team leader, able to track progress and meet deadlines, build consensus, motivate others, hold themselves and others accountable and meet benchmarks to complete long-term projects on time
● Demonstrated evidence of success in a supervisory role
● Ability to work independently and to handle complex tasks simultaneously
● Strong written and oral communication and group facilitation skills
Preferred Qualifications
● Fluency with learning management software (e.g., Canvas)
● Contributor to or producer of scholarship in a relevant field
● Knowledge of Ignatian Pedagogy or the global landscape of the Jesuit network, or experience in Jesuit education
● Working knowledge of community-based organizational landscape in Washington, DC
Engaged Scholarship (Research and Research Support)
As an engaged scholar, the DoESP has a visible campus presence in deepening the University’s commitment to engaged and public scholarship. This position leads and oversees community-engaged and social justice-based research activities of the CSJ, including consultations with faculty, staff, students, and community partners regarding potential research opportunities (including those that may be grant-funded); initiating and/or facilitating academic-community partnerships using participatory approaches; and serving as a liaison to the University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB); Center for Research and Fellowships; the Office of the Provost; and other relevant campus units. The DoESP serves as an intellectual and academic resource to CSJ’s team.
The DoESP facilitates the annual processes for CSJ’s undergraduate research fellowships, including, but not limited to, the Andretta Research Fellowship, Education and Social Justice (ESJ) Research Fellowship, and others. (All aspects of the ESJ fellowship are co-led and shared with a colleague from the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.) The DoESP is responsible for recruiting applicants; receiving and reviewing student applications/proposals; identifying and preparing review committee members; facilitating review meetings and interviews; communicating with applicants; providing support through the entirety of the fellowship period; and working with student researchers to present their work to the broader GU community. The DoESP is the lead planner of the CSJ’s annual Global Social Justice Research Symposium.
When this position comes with the title of Assistant Research Professor, there is an expectation of peer-reviewed scholarly publications and presentations at relevant conferences.
Engaged Pedagogies for Social Change
The DoESP is responsible for the Center’s portfolio of teaching and learning programming for faculty, staff, and students.
The DoESP acts as a consultant, partner, critical friend, and pedagogical specialist for Georgetown faculty in their learning and utilization of pedagogies for social change, social justice-infused methods, and other forms of engaged teaching and learning.
The DoESP supervises team members responsible for programming for students, faculty, and staff which utilizes immersion, dialogue, and community-based teaching and learning (including critical reflection) as pedagogies for social change.
Immersion relates to the trips and wrap-around programming offered to students, faculty, and staff to engage deeply with community partners in social justice issues, offered through or supported by the CSJ. Dialogue relates to CSJ’s preferred method of racial justice work on campus with students, faculty, and staff. Community-engaged teaching and learning refers to the mission-based curricular interventions that simultaneously support community-based needs and student learning outcomes in credit-bearing spaces.
The DoESP is also responsible for oversight of CSJ’s portfolio of credit-bearing opportunities for students, which includes and is not limited to:
● the 1-credit, pass/fail, asynchronous, online course UNXD 130 CBL Social Action, taught each Fall and Spring semester;
● the 1-credit, pass/fail, asynchronous, online course UNXD 030 CBL Intersections of Social Justice (and its iterations on the graduate level);
● the suite of community-based learning (CBL) courses offered by diverse faculty each semester;
● three 1-credit pass/fail courses (UNXD 230, 231, 232) created to wrap around the Education and Social Justice Research Fellowship, co-taught with a campus partner from the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
- Oversight of this portfolio could include teaching the course(s), assessing student leading learning outcomes, supporting CSJ staff members to create and teach a course, and keeping the courses current and engaged.
When this position comes with the title of Assistant Teaching Professor, there is an expectation of consistent and compelling work with faculty peers on curricular development that uses engaged pedagogies, as well as participation in teaching and learning initiatives across the University and within professional networks.
Supervision
The DoESP oversees the “Research and Teaching” pillars of the Center for Social Justice, which includes direct supervision of three full-time professional team members: Associate Director, Racial Justice Initiatives; Assistant Director, Immersion Programs; and Assistant Director, Community Engaged Learning. These three team members utilize engaged pedagogies for social change, including immersion, dialogue, and community-based learning.
This position directly may supervise one Justice Graduate Intern (JGI, Master’s-level graduate student employee) and indirectly supports the JGIs assigned to this position’s direct reports (~4). This position sustains CSJ’s “high-touch” supportive, supervisory culture which prioritizes the full-person growth and thriving of professional team members, JGIs, and student leaders.
At Georgetown, managers take on their supervisees’ portfolios if that person is on leave or a position is unfilled.
CSJ Activities
The DoESP participates as a full member of CSJ’s leadership team, with CSJ’s Deputy Director and CSJ’s Executive Director.
The DoESP collaborates with all CSJ programs around CSJ’s needs and participates in CSJ activities including staff meetings and committees, and in the shared responsibility of student organization advising. This position represents CSJ in University-wide activities, such as cross-unit committees, and models engaged University citizenship, through diverse participation in the life of the University, as well as participation in the wider professional fields to which they belong.
This position represents CSJ in-person and virtually in external professional settings, potentially including and not limited to: The Research Universities Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN); conferences of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU);
This position serves the University strategically on committees and working groups.
This is a full-time, 12 month academic administration position. Questions can be directed to CSJ’s Executive Director, Dr. Andria Wisler, at csj@georgetown.edu. Questions will be compiled and responses posted at csj.georgetown.edu/about/work-at-the-csj/.