Associate or Full Professor and Department Chair - Educational Leadership & Counseling
$100,000–$100,000 year
On-siteKingsville, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Conduct graduate and doctoral teaching in educational leadership and counseling across face-to-face, hybrid, and online modalities while providing academic advising and mentoring students. Serve as Department Chair, managing planning, budgeting, scheduling, and personnel operations; lead accreditation, assessment, and program review activities; and conduct faculty evaluations. Maintain an active research program through publications, presentations, and external grant seeking while fostering a culture of scholarly productivity. Support student recruitment and retention, represent the department on university committees, and advance shared governance initiatives. This tenure-track role balances 50% teaching and 50% chair duties within the Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling at Texas A&M University–Kingsville.
Required Qualifications
- Earned doctorate in a discipline related to Educational Leadership, Counseling, or a closely related field from an accredited institution
- Tenured Associate Professor or Professor
- Demonstrated excellence in graduate teaching, scholarship, and service
- Record of academic leadership, planning, administration, and budget oversight
- Experience with faculty/staff evaluation processes
- Record of leading accreditation and program review efforts
- Evidence of grant writing and/or external funding experience
- Demonstrated commitment to addressing the educational needs of all student populations and collaborative leadership
- Ability to perform the essential duties of the position, including travel to meetings and university events as needed
- This position is security sensitive
- This position will require export-control authorization prior to starting employment
- This position requires compliance with state and federal laws/codes and Texas A&M University System/TAMU policies, regulations, rules and procedures
- All tasks and job responsibilities must be performed safely without injury to self or others in compliance with System and University safety requirements
Desired Qualifications
- Three or more years of experience supervising personnel and managing budgets
- Experience with fundraising and external partnerships
- Experience in online graduate education
- Experience with curriculum revision and culturally responsive pedagogy
- Experience teaching doctoral courses and chairing dissertations
- Experience in K–12 leadership
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and leadership skills
- Ability to build trust through transparent communication and shared decision-making
- Ability to work collaboratively with faculty, staff, students, and university leadership
- Knowledge of accreditation, assessment, budgeting, and higher education administration
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