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Director of the School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Employer
University of Arizona
Location
South Tucson, Arizona, US
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 18, 2021

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Sector
Academic / Research
Field
Conservation science
Discipline
Climate Change
Salary Type
Salary
Employment Type
Full time
The University of Arizona seeks a Director of the School
of Natural Resources and the
Environment
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Location: Tucson,
Arizona

The Position:
The University of Arizona
(UArizona) School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE)
seeks an enthusiastic, innovative, growth-minded, and
entrepreneurial Director to lead one of UArizona's largest and most
complex schools. The new director will build upon a tradition of
excellence to grow SNRE's reach, profile, and programming, working
closely with nine college academic unit heads, academic unit heads
in other colleges, seven associate/assistant deans, the Extension
Director, Director of International Initiatives, Associate Vice
President for Advancement, Advocacy, Alumni Affairs and Corporate
Relations, the Dean of the Rogers College of Law, and the Vice
President & Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences. The School houses more than 250 employees, including 36
faculty (including four Extension specialists), 78 staff members,
292 undergraduate majors and 76 graduate students. Current course
enrollment is >3100 undergraduate and >300 graduate students
annually. The directorship will be accompanied by a Tenured
Professorship commensurate to the rank and qualifications of the
applicant.
SNRE's teaching, research, and extension programs address
today's critical natural resources and environmental challenges.
The School's teaching and research program areas include Natural
Resources; Conservation Biology; Climate Change and Society;
Ecology, Management, and Restoration of Rangelands; Fisheries
Conservation and Management; Global Change Ecology and Management;
Geographic Information Science and Technology; Watershed Management
and Ecohydrology; Water, Society & Policy; and Wildlife
Conservation and Management. SNRE contributes to UArizona's Land
Grant Mission through its Cooperative Extension Programming, which
includes Animal Foraging Behavior and Distribution; Climate Change
Adaptation Planning; Climate Services; Community-Based Sustainable
Rangeland Livestock Production; Improving Range Management on
Public Lands: Planning, Analysis, and Monitoring; Noxious, Invasive
Plants; and Rangeland and Natural Resource Ecology and
Management.
Outstanding UArizona benefits include health, dental, and vision
insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; sick
leave, and holidays; UArizona/Arizona State University/Northern
Arizona University tuition reduction for the employee and qualified
family members; state and optional retirement plans; access to
UArizona recreation and cultural activities; and more!
The University of Arizona has been recognized for innovative
work-life programs. For more information about working at the
University of Arizona and relocation services, please click
here.

Duties and Responsibilities:
The School
Director, who will have both College and Extension appointments,
must be a proven entrepreneurial and innovative leader with
demonstrated excellence and outstanding achievements warranting
appointment as Full Professor. Reporting directly to the VP and
Dean, the Director is responsible for:

Building and leading all aspects of the School.
Driving additional excellence in enrollment, programming,
advancement, and partnerships.
Increasing and maintaining connections with private, state, and
federal agencies.

Working with commercial and governmental partners in funded
projects.
Partnering with donors and community organizations to secure
philanthropic funding.

Leading financial and budget administration for the
School.
Recruiting diverse students and faculty.
Advocating for an inclusive
environment.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Exemplary communication and interpersonal skills.
Collaborative leadership with impeccable integrity.
Proven innovative and entrepreneurial leadership and management
skills.
Experience with finance and budgeting in a growth-oriented
environment.
Experience overseeing undergraduate and graduate instructional
programs.
Experience with Cooperative Extensions and relating these
activities to all external stakeholders and user groups.
Leadership focused on diversity, equity, and
inclusion.

Minimum Qualifications:

A terminal degree.
Track record of successful leadership, management, and
accountability for an academic or research organization.
History of successfully working with a broad diversity of
stakeholder groups, such as federal and state agencies,
non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.
Experience in an all-funds activity-based environment.
Experience with advocacy efforts and with effectively
interacting with alumni, corporations, and advisory board
members.
Evidence of securing and maintaining philanthropic
support.

About the School of Natural Resources and the
Environment:
The School of Natural Resources and
the Environment (SNRE) is a world leader in pursuing science
that informs how environmental change impacts arid and semi-arid
systems and how best to adapt to environmental challenges. The
School is a cohort of students, faculty, and staff who take great
pride in a focus on problem-driven research, teaching, and
extension encompassing all aspects of environmental stewardship.
SNRE research answers important questions about how ecosystems
respond under environmental or human pressures and develops
strategies to help mitigate the effects of these pressures, helping
to create and maintain healthy and sustainable ecological
systems.
The SNRE's undergraduate and graduate educational programs are
interdisciplinary and focused on real-world problems and
experiences, preparing students for the demands of leadership
positions in natural resource science and management. SNRE offers a
variety of degree options that allow students to tailor their
degrees to suit their interests and career goals. Students are at
the heart of the School, as they develop their projects, fieldwork,
and complete their academic course work, they gain both the
theoretical and the practical skills they will need to be the
resource managers of the future.
SNRE is unique among its peers in terms of the breadth of focus
and depth of expertise, integrating across the boundaries of
biology, physical science, resource management, and international
resource issues. SNRE is unmatched in the number and diversity of
partnerships it has established with organizations in Tucson,
County, State, and Federal agencies that foster an atmosphere of
collaboration and collegiality.
In addition, SNRE is focused on actively building a diverse and
welcoming environment for all. It is the School's goal to ensure
that the SNRE community respects and embraces diversity, and to
encourage and support activities and conversations that promote a
genuine climate of mutual respect, empathy, and
inclusion.
SNRE offers
Bachelor of Science,
Master of Science, and
Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Natural Resources, and a Master
of Science degree in
Water, Society & Policy. SNRE offers the advantages of a
large research university while providing a more intimate setting
for students to explore working with natural resources and applying
science to real-world conservation.

The Environment and Natural Resources 2 Building
(ENR2)
The School of Natural Resources and
Environment is located within a new facility completed in 2015. The
Environment and Natural Resources 2 Building (ENR2) is part of the
University of Arizona's commitment to environmental sustainability
and interdisciplinary research and studies that focus on earth
science, environmental programs, and natural resources. The
building contains offices, classrooms, auditoriums and gathering
rooms for public programs, in addition to a café and a stunning
central courtyard that foster circulation and
gathering.

About the College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences:
With an education and research portfolio
that stretches from soil sciences to resource management to
retailing, and from beneath the soil to outer space, the University
of Arizona's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) offers
20 undergraduate degree programs across four schools and six
departments. CALS research touches on nearly every aspect of modern
life and has played a pivotal role in Arizona's and the global
economy throughout its 134-year history.
Uniquely positioned in the southern Arizona desert to offer
solutions to problems affecting much of the world in the 21st
century, the College continues to build on its heritage of
advancing the frontiers of science to improve the human
condition.
The College's Strategic Plan can be found HERE.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is committed to
these Four Strategic Intents:

Be a leading economic development engine for Arizona.
Produce employable graduates, who can do jobs that do not yet
exist and create new jobs.
Be the most effective, efficient, responsive, flexible, and
financially sustainable enterprise on campus.
Be the most sought-after place to be a part
of.

College Leadership: Shane C. Burgess, MRCVS,
FLS
Dr. Shane Burgess serves as the Vice President
for the Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and
Cooperative Extension and the Charles-Sander Dean of the College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Under Shane's leadership, the division launched the Yuma Center
of Excellence in Desert Agriculture and the Gary and Barbara
Pasquinelli Career Center. He also led the College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences in the creation of new undergraduate degrees in
Biosystems Analytics and Technology, Food Safety, Nutrition and
Food Systems, and Personal and Family Financial Planning.
A "first-generation student," Shane graduated with distinction
as a veterinarian in 1989 from Massey University, New Zealand. He
has worked in and managed veterinary clinical practices in
Australia and the United Kingdom, with services in horses, farm
animals, pets, wild and zoo animals, and emergency medicine and
surgery. He did a radiology residency at Murdoch University in
Perth, Western Australia, where he co-founded Perth's first
emergency veterinary clinic concurrently, and he has managed
aquaculture facilities in Scotland. Shane did his Ph.D. in
virology, immunology, and cancer biology, conferred by University
of Bristol Medical School, U.K. while working full time outside of
the academy between 1995 and 1998.

About University of Arizona:
Established
in 1885, the University of
Arizona (UArizona), the state's land-grant university, is a
member of the prestigious Association of American Universities.
Recognized as a global leader, and classified as a Carnegie R-1,
UArizona conducts more than $687 million in annual research
expenditures and is currently ranked in the top 40 among all public
universities surveyed. UArizona produces graduates who are
real-world ready through its 100% Engagement
Initiative. The UArizona is advancing the frontiers of
interdisciplinary scholarship and entrepreneurial partnerships and
benefits the state with an estimated economic impact of $4.1
billion annually. With a total faculty of 3,144, UArizona currently
enrolls 36,503 undergraduate students in more than 300 majors, in
addition to 10,429 graduate and professional students.
Located in the city of Tucson, with a campus size of 392 acres,
UArizona offers students a wide range of activities and academic
opportunities. This includes three levels of intramural sports and
more than 30 fraternities and sororities, and many other student
organizations. The Arizona Wildcats NCAA Division I teams compete
in the Pac-12 Conference. Classified as a highest research
institution, UArizona involves both undergraduate and graduate
students in research projects. The University has a wide range of
graduate programs, including the
Eller College of Management, the College of Veterinary Medicine,
the
James E. Rogers College of Law and a
College of Medicine.
The University of Arizona values its inclusive climate because
it knows that diversity in experiences and perspectives is vital to
advancing innovation, critical thinking, solving complex problems,
and creating an inclusive academic community. As a Hispanic-serving
institution, UArizona translates these values into action by
seeking individuals who have experience and expertise working with
diverse students, colleagues, and constituencies. Because UArizona
seeks a workforce with a wide range of perspectives and
experiences, the institution provides equal employment
opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran
status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic
information. As an Employer of National Service, UArizona also
welcomes alumni of AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other national
service programs and others who will help advance the institution's
Inclusive Excellence initiative aimed at creating a university that
values student, staff, and faculty engagement in addressing issues
of diversity and inclusiveness.
The University of Arizona demonstrates diversity in every area
with 24% of graduates being students of color. In fact, the
graduate programs demonstrate exceptional diversity as enrollment
is the most diverse among all public institutions belonging to the
Association of American Universities. UArizona is ranked #1 in the
number of PhDs awarded to Native American students and #9 in the
number of PhDs awarded to Hispanic
students.

Why Consider the Opportunity?

Excellence. Highly productive and committed
faculty and staff.
Impact. Opportunity and support for
entrepreneurial growth and development.
Location. Tucson offers unparalleled
opportunities for partnerships and research. It is the epicenter
for issues related to the School.
Exceptional facilities. The School is in a
modern, advanced environmental science building built in 2015.
Professional development. The Division is
committed to the development of its faculty and staff.
Innovation. Autonomy to manage and lead the
School, including all finances.
Support. The School has a dedicated support
team, including dedicated budget and development
officers.

To Apply:
Confidential review of
applications will begin immediately and continue until the position
is filled; parties who apply before or by November 9, 2021
will be given first consideration. Interested candidates
should submit a curriculum vitae and a letter of interest. To apply
online, go to: https://theapplicantmanager.com/jobs?pos=su259

For more information or to offer recommendations or
nominations:
Stephanie
Rivas-Fowler
Senior Consultant

Summit Search
Solutions, Inc.
Direct: (530) 677-9945

srivasfowler@summitsearchsolutions.com

At the University of Arizona, we value our inclusive climate
because we know that diversity in experiences and perspectives is
vital to advancing innovation, critical thinking, solving complex
problems, and creating an inclusive academic community. As a
Hispanic-serving institution, we translate these values into action
by seeking individuals who have experience and expertise working
with diverse students, colleagues, and constituencies. Because we
seek a workforce with a wide range of perspectives and experiences,
we provide equal employment opportunities to applicants and
employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender
identity, or genetic information. As an Employer of National
Service, we also welcome alumni of AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and
other national service programs and others who will help us advance
our Inclusive Excellence initiative aimed at creating a university
that values student, staff and faculty engagement in addressing
issues of diversity and inclusiveness. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Keywords: School Principal, Location: Tucson, AZ - 85721

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