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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">ACLS Mission and Overview</span></p>\n<p>Formed a century ago, the<span> </span><a href=\"http://www.acls.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)</a><span> </span>is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS expands the forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship.</p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Job Summary</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">ACLS seeks an experienced academic in the humanities and social sciences to serve as <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Director, Intentional Design for an Equitable Academy (IDEA). </span>The Director will design, implement, assess and report on programs that advance ACLS’s mission to support scholars and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences by encouraging the adoption of forward-thinking, humane academic best practices and resilient infrastructure. Reflecting the general values and aims of ACLS, IDEA’s initiatives seek to help:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">broaden the range of scholarly perspectives in American academia</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">improve and strengthen academic culture and infrastructure by encouraging forward-looking practices and structures</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">support projects and fields of study facing underinvestment in the academy</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">make scholarship more accessible to the public.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">As a member of the senior staff, the Director will collaborate with colleagues within the organization and across ACLS networks, including member societies and member institutions; will curate and facilitate forums for circulating knowledge and collaboration that bridge groups across our ecosystem, and design initiatives that improve scholars’ futures while helping scholars to navigate current systems.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Unit scope</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program and Mellon Mays Graduate and Professional Initiatives</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Emphasizing mentoring, research support, and student cohort building, the Mellon Mays programs partner with member colleges and universities to identify and support students of great promise and to help them become scholars and professionals of the highest distinction. The Mellon Mays staff at ACLS are currently responsible for:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Coordinating annual grantmaking, programming, and reporting from 50 colleges, universities, and consortia in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship network</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Developing strategies for outreach to Mellon fellows to maximize engagement</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Designing programming that is responsive to the changing landscape of graduate education and Mellon Mays alumni needs that aligns with the mission and goals of ACLS</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Documenting and assessing the 35-year history of the program</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Intention Foundry</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">A forum for advancing equity within and across fields, in partnership with emerging scholars, ACLS member society leadership, and college/university interlocutors.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Digital Justice </span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Grant Program</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">This program promotes and provides resources for projects at various stages of development that strengthen the intellectual domain of digital humanities, with particular attention to improving accessibility and to ensuring the co-creation and preservation of an expansive and inclusive landscape of materials and stories.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Responsibilities of the Director include but are not limited to:</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">IDEA Program Strategy and Leadership </span></em></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Design and lead initiatives for our constituencies and partners (including learned societies, institutions of higher education, and thought leaders) appropriate to ACLS and aimed at transforming academic culture, policies, and practices.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Oversee the staff designing and administering IDEA programs and work with them on programming that integrates programs with other ACLS work.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Work with the President and the senior staff to help ACLS colleagues and ACLS networks (academic society executive directors and delegates, members of the University Consortium and Associates networks, fellows, past fellows, reviewers, and funders) work towards a more inclusive and vibrant ecosystem for the humanities and social sciences.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; 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and represent ACLS and its work to the Board and in external settings (conferences, gatherings, and other relevant convenings).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develop content for ACLS communications in collaboration with Communications team.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Collaborate with the Chief Development Officer in cultivating events and activities of varying tone and scale to foster the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of prospects and donors that align the funders’ identified areas of interest with emerging initiatives in the unit’s portfolio or ACLS’s broader priorities and capacities.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Support the President and other leadership on the engagement of select high-capacity donors and funders, including support for meeting preparation and follow up. Propose and plan development travel for other key principals and surrogates.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Management and operations</span></em></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Manage, guide, coach and develop direct reports and other unit members; provide guidance and strategic counsel to help advance their portfolio of initiatives or support work.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Direct the operations and oversee the budget of IDEA, including direct supervision of program officers, program associates and other staff.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Coordinate activities with other ACLS units as necessary, including Development and Finance.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Work with the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer to identify and drive solutions for various program-related organizational processes associated with technology, human resources, and financial services.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Qualifications:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">PhD in the humanities or social sciences</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Leadership, management and administrative experience: successful candidates will have served as department or program chair or center director at minimum, ideally as an associate dean or dean or vice provost or the equivalent</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Must have tenure or have had tenure at some point and held the rank of Associate or full Professor (not Assistant Professor)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Experience with the Mellon Mays programs a plus</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ability to multi-task and prioritize long-term projects and short-term assignments in a deadline-driven environment</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Excellent interpersonal skills and facility both for working collaboratively with a team and independently</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Analytical and creative problem-solving capacity</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ability to take initiative and respond flexibly to rapidly evolving and unexpected conditions</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ability to maintain clear and rational judgment in high pressure or complex situations</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Word and Excel; experience with using relational databases, such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM preferred</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Experience with grants management a plus</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Hybrid work schedule; must live within an easy commute of New York City</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Some travel required</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Serving faculty acceptable but must secure at least three years of unpaid leave with possibility of leave renewal</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Compensation and Benefits</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Base salary range: $175,000 - $200,000, commensurate with experience</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">ACLS offers a comprehensive benefits package; including medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and disability insurance; generous time off benefits; a retirement savings plan, including employer contributions; and professional development support. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>",
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