Location: Waltham, MA
Job Description Summary
The Director of Programs & Design for Academic Innovation serves as a leader within the Badavas Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning and a strategic thought partner to the Executive Director and Associate Provost for Academic Innovation.
Reporting directly to the Executive Director, the Director helps build, facilitate, and advance the Center's portfolio of academic innovation initiatives. The role combines innovation design, program leadership, facilitation, team management, partnership development, and operational execution to transform ideas into impactful and scalable programs that advance Bentley's academic priorities.
The Director serves as a builder, facilitator, and integrator: someone who can help co-create new initiatives, facilitate collaborative design processes, connect stakeholders across the institution, oversee program implementation, and ensure programs are effectively designed, assessed, and continuously improved.
The ideal candidate brings expertise spanning pedagogy, learning science, learning design, faculty development, program management, facilitation, community-building, and emerging trends in higher education. They bring particular curiosity about and working knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching and learning, including its implications for pedagogy, course and assessment design, experiential learning, faculty practice, and the evolving roles of educators and learners.
The ideal candidate embraces a highly collaborative and co-creative approach to innovation, engaging faculty, staff, students, and partners as active contributors in the design, implementation, and evolution of new programs and initiatives. They are equally comfortable facilitating a faculty learning community, leading a design workshop, developing a new institutional initiative, or building partnerships that advance the Center's mission.
Essential Duties
Partner with the Executive Director to design, build, pilot, implement, and scale innovative programs and initiatives that advance Bentley's academic priorities and Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TIE) vision.
Co-create initiatives that strengthen teaching, learning, faculty development, interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential education, and student success.
Build structures, experiences, and communities that support faculty innovation, professional growth, and educational transformation.
Facilitate collaborative design processes that engage faculty, staff, students, and partners in the development of new programs and initiatives.
Design and support faculty development opportunities, communities of practice, and collaborative learning experiences that foster innovation and continuous learning.
Monitor emerging trends, practices, and innovations in higher education and provide recommendations that inform the evolution of Center initiatives.
Lead and support initiatives that explore the evolving role of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning, partnering with faculty and colleagues to design, pilot, assess, and scale pedagogically meaningful approaches to AI-enhanced learning, course design, assessment, and faculty development.
Contribute to the long-term growth and impact of the Center's portfolio.
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