Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the vision, growth, positioning, and sustainability of graduate education across the College.
• Lead graduate program portfolio management, including innovation, assessment, renewal, quality improvement, and new program development.
• Advance interdisciplinary, hybrid, online, low-residency, and professionally oriented graduate models aligned with evolving student, workforce, and industry needs.
• Support innovative curricular frameworks integrating creative practice, research, entrepreneurship, professional preparation, and experiential learning.
• Ensure academic rigor, market relevance, and alignment with institutional priorities and strategic opportunities.
• Collaborate with graduate directors and faculty to support academic excellence, interdisciplinary engagement, and graduate program quality.
• Support faculty creative practice, scholarship, exhibitions, publications, sponsored research, and externally funded initiatives.
• Advance institutional growth in grantsmanship, applied research, public scholarship, and sponsored partnerships.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive graduate culture grounded in shared governance, innovation, experimentation, and student success.
• Provide strategic leadership, coordination, and oversight for institutional centers, institutes, and interdisciplinary innovation initiatives.

Requirements

• Terminal degree in a relevant discipline represented within the School.
• Distinguished record of creative practice, teaching, scholarship, or professional achievement.
• Demonstrated progressive academic leadership experience.
• Experience managing academic operations, budgets, and faculty affairs.
• Strong communication, strategic planning, and collaborative leadership skills.

Preferred

• Experience in art and design higher education or interdisciplinary creative environments.
• Experience with industry partnerships, sponsored projects, or creative entrepreneurship initiatives.
• Experience with enrollment strategy, program innovation, or workforce-aligned academic development.