Position Opening
Director of the Haas Center for Public Service
Stanford University
Stanford University is seeking an inspired national leader in the arena
of public service to carry the Haas Center for Public Service into the
next phase of its development. Established in 1984, the Haas Center
promotes, organizes and supports public and community service by members
of the Stanford community, especially students. The mission of the
Haas Center is to:
· Respond
effectively to community needs as identified by community members.
· Develop
in students requisite knowledge, skills and commitment for a lifetime of
effective participation in public life.
· Connect
community needs and academic scholarship in a way that expands students’
intellectual development and provides effective assistance to off-campus
communities.
The Haas Center is a highly visible organization that involves more than
2500 students each year in academic and co-curricular programs in the
local community, at the state and federal levels, and overseas. It
houses and advises more than 35 student organizations involved in
community service, public policy development, analysis and
implementation, and advocacy for solutions to persistent social problems,
and administers University-sponsored programs. The Center collaborates
with deans, department chairs, and faculty to build connections between
service and academic instruction and research across the curriculum. It
also serves as the campus base for Stanford in Washington and
Upward Bound.
The Director serves as the executive leader and manager of the Center,
responsible for establishing its vision in consultation and collaboration
with the Faculty Steering Committee, the National Advisory Board, the
Haas Unifying Board, and the senior administration of the University and
implementing these through effective practice. As chief
administrator of the Center, s/he is responsible for planning and
management of its programs and operation; the quality of service to
students, faculty, and community organizations; program planning;
budgeting and fundraising. The Director recruits, supports, leads and
manages a diverse permanent staff of 21, more than 30 part-time student
employees, and volunteer mentors.
Qualifications include: a passion for public service education, and deep
understanding of the role students, faculty, and higher education as a
whole can play in serving the public good; demonstrated and
inspired national leadership in the arena of public service, the
non-profit sector, and/or education-related public service programs;
ability to engage faculty in the pedagogy of service-learning in an
academic setting; experience in designing, implementing, and teaching
college-level service-learning courses highly desired; a desire to work
with and mentor university students, and to respond to their interests,
concerns, and challenges, especially related to public service; in-depth
understanding of the relationship between a research university and the
surrounding communities, and the implications of the relationships at the
national, state, and regional levels; professional or voluntary
experience in the community and demonstrated use of effective responses
to community needs; ability to represent Haas Center and its programs
effectively to diverse constituencies; proven ability to recruit interest
from and relate effectively to a wide variety of people of many
backgrounds, including an understanding and appreciation of cultural,
ethnic and individual differences; significant successful management
experience, including: financial management and planning; staff
recruitment, development, supervision and management; program planning,
design and implementation; and demonstrated successful experience in
fundraising and stewardship necessary to support a $2 million
organization. An advanced degree is expected.
Applications will be reviewed beginning January 15, 2000, and accepted
through the end of January. For a complete position description and
additional information about the Haas Center, see
http://haas.stanford.edu.
Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Applicants
should submit a letter describing their personal philosophy of public
service in education and resume to: Haas Center Director, c/o Ms. Suzanne
Schaffer, Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs, 459 Lagunita
Drive, Suite 6, Stanford, California, 94309. Equal Opportunity
Employer. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.
________________________________________
Troy Gilbert
Assistant to the Vice Provost for Student Affairs
Stanford University
(650) 725-6020
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