Job Description

About the Department
The Poole College of Management actively engages with industry and academia to create an innovative and collaborative intellectual environment that fosters learning, scholarship, and service. We’re deeply rooted in NC State’s history as a university that excels at science, technology, engineering, and math.

Our college’s student body — over 4,000 students — hails from across North Carolina, the United States, and the world. Our faculty are thought leaders and field-tested experts with enduring ties to the world of business.

Poole College of Management has four academic departments: Accounting, Business Management, Economics, and Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. We offer bachelor’s degrees in accounting, business administration, economics; master’s degrees in accounting, business administration (MBA), economics, management (including specialized degrees); as well as a doctoral degree in economics. Among our non-degree programs, we offer Executive Education and graduate certificates.

The college houses six initiatives fostering research, learning, and corporate engagement: Business Analytics Initiative, Business Sustainability Collaborative, Enterprise Risk Management Initiative, Entrepreneurship Clinic, Entrepreneurship Collaborative, and Supply Chain Resource Cooperative. The college is fully accredited by the AACSB.

To learn more about our College, visit: https://poole.ncsu.edu

To learn more about Our Employee Value Proposition, please visit: You Belong Here
Essential Job Duties
The Department Head serves as the department’s academic leader and administrative officer, responsible for providing intellectual and organizational leadership and managing academic, research, and program activities.

Key Responsibilities
Build a dynamic department with a strong reputation for excellence in teaching, student success, and impactful research.
Foster an environment that supports a shared vision, encourages a productive and innovative faculty and staff, and promotes collaboration.
Create an intellectually stimulating atmosphere that welcomes faculty, staff, and students with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds.
Guide faculty and staff in enhancing undergraduate and graduate programs and outreach activities to meet the evolving needs of students and stakeholders.
Oversee the department’s academic affairs, personnel, finances, and physical facilities.
Effectively deploy resources to achieve the goals of the department and the College.

Additionally, the Head will represent and advocate for the Department within the Poole College of Management and the University, engage with alumni and other stakeholders, and help attract external support for educational programs, research initiatives, and centers.

This is a 12-month position, reporting directly to the Dean of the Poole College of Management.
Other Responsibilities
Qualified candidates should possess and exemplary scholarly research record in one or more of the following areas: Information Technology, Analytics, Supply Chain Management and/or Operations, as well as evidence of classroom excellence at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
Qualifications
Minimum Education and Experience
Qualified candidates will possess the required doctor’s degree, an equivalent degree, or equivalent professional experience and the credentials to be appointed at the rank of Professor with tenure in the department.
Other Required Qualifications
Possess an exemplary scholarly research record as well as evidence of classroom excellence at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
Ability to support and mentor faculty and staff at all career stages.
The ability to manage budget priorities to balance a diverse array of needs within the Department.
An excellent record of scholarship and teaching.
Effective communication skills and team-building capabilities.
A record of outstanding professional achievement in their field.
Preferred Qualifications
Preference will be given to candidates that can demonstrate an ability for highly effective administrative leadership and management of a multi-function department, and an understanding and appreciation of the evolving mission of the land-grant university system. This includes an understanding of the opportunities and constraints facing faculty and departments in public research and education institutions.
In addition, experience with personnel management and participatory decision-making is also preferred.