Clinical Psychology Program Director – Department Chair

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Saybrook

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 1990

💸 Finance

🏠 Real Estate

🏪 Marketplace

Finance • Real Estate • Marketplace

Saybrook is a private equity and investment firm founded in 1990 that focuses on lower-middle-market companies with operational or capital-structure complexity. The firm operates dedicated private equity, infrastructure, and technology arms that target supply-chain, logistics, and real-estate-related opportunities; it also provides consulting and advisory services (turnaround, capital structure, ERP/systems) and invests in/operates marketplace platforms for warehouse space. Saybrook works with management teams, institutional investors, and transportation stakeholders to improve the flow of goods and deploy capital in infrastructure and technology solutions.

📋 Description

• Provide leadership to achieve the highest possible level of excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and service activities by members of the academic department. • Facilitate faculty and departmental goal setting annually. • Establish a culture in support of openness to change and innovation. • Oversee core and part-time faculty, facilitating equitable workload and contributions to departmental and university mission and goals. • Guide and coordinate faculty workload planning to support faculty, attending to faculty professional desires and life-work balance while ensuring department and student needs are met. • Monitor faculty engagement in courses to ensure quality teaching and effective communications with students. • Ensure quality instruction based on institutional learning objectives. • Maintain and implement processes for appointment, contract renewal, application for faculty rank, and professional development. • Evaluate core faculty annually; maintain open channels for feedback throughout the year. • Monitor adjunct faculty course engagement and course evaluations and provide appropriate guidance and supports. • Assess part-time faculty performance when determining reappointment. • Communicate and interact with Human Resource Services, Labor Relations, and the Office of General Counsel on personnel issues, when and as necessary. • Coordinate execution of the unit's educational programs with the faculty, and schedule courses and assign instructors to these courses in consultation with specialization coordinators, the faculty, and the dean's office. • Monitor course registrations and make appropriate adjustments in course schedules and instructor assignments in cooperation with other departments/areas/programs and the dean's office. • Communicate new academic policies and procedures as well as grading/evaluation due dates to all faculty. • Collaborate with Academic Affairs to deliver an effective faculty orientation program that includes a review of Saybrook University’s policies and LMS training. • Plan and administer the unit's budget in consultation with the dean’s office. • Manage budget expectations, and present departmental recruitment requests. • Approve faculty and FWS schedules, pay and expenses. • Serve as a central figure available to address questions, concerns, and communications from students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders with the expectation of a resolution of issues at the department level. • Keep your Dean informed. • Facilitate administrative and departmental faculty meetings and committees. • Follow through on faculty and student inquiries and requests as it relates to academic progress. • Lead the recruitment efforts, when resources are available, for replacement or net growth of faculty. • The chair is responsible for making certain that the diversity goals of the department and college are met by assuring a diverse pool of highly qualified candidates. • All core faculty are expected to play a key role in recruiting prospective students and processing student admissions. • Review and interview applications and use the systems in place to move applicants through the review process in a timely manner. • Develop relationships and maintain a system of regular communications with appropriate university and system partners. • Coordinate and engage in annual academic program and faculty review processes to follow accreditation requirements as well as external accrediting bodies as required. • Facilitate regular program reviews to maintain relevancy and pedagogical innovation. • Monitor curriculum and recommend curricular changes to the department faculty to meet the changing needs of students and the University. • Coordinate curricular changes initiated within the department before sending them on to the appropriate college and University committees. • Support curricular and course development processes for new and existing programs, to keep content and pedagogy fresh and relevant. • Regularly review and support degree program policies, coordinate catalog revision and update website managers with program changes. • Propose new initiatives, programs, and projects; organize and facilitate approval of new course offerings and learning outcomes; support the upkeep, relevance, growth and maintenance of the academic program. • Teach specific courses and serve on student research committees. • All faculty members at Saybrook University are expected to be available and responsive to students. • Course-level faculty engagement expectations are detailed in the faculty handbook. • Utilize university offered resources to maintain technology skills specific and appropriate to each program and process.

🎯 Requirements

• Doctorate (PhD or PsyD) in Clinical Psychology from a regionally accredited institution of higher learning • Minimum of 5 years of combined faculty and administrative experience, including leadership experience within a doctoral-level program • Direct experience leading an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited doctoral program • License or certification in appropriate discipline, as appropriate (i.e., clinical psychology, counseling, coaching, etc.) • Experience interfacing with institutional accreditors (e.g. WSCUC and HLC) and state regulatory/licensure bodies • Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills • Willingness to develop strong organization, delegation, and follow through skills • Experience leading projects and/or teams • Record of scholarship sufficient to support and facilitate faculty scholarly activity at the doctoral faculty level • Passion for innovative pedagogy and demonstrated teaching quality in online and hybrid environments. • Established record of meaningful service to department, university, discipline, and/or community.

🏖️ Benefits

• generous paid time-off • medical and dental insurance coverage • life and disability insurance • retirement plan with employer contribution • multiple flexible spending accounts • tuition reimbursement