Teaching Professor and Faculty Director of Strategic Initiatives

Teaching Professor and Faculty Director of Strategic Initiatives

Job No : 498455

Work Type : Faculty Full-Time

Location : Denver, CO

Categories : Faculty

Position Summary

The Teaching Professor and Faculty Director of Strategic Initiatives is a senior faculty leader who combines teaching excellence with strategic leadership in business development, donor cultivation, and institutional advancement.

Reporting to the Dean, this position serves as both master educator and institutional strategist-representing PSC's mission while cultivating relationships with donors, corporate partners, and alumni through capstone mentorship and experiential learning.

The ideal candidate brings national recognition, demonstrated excellence in education, entrepreneurial vision, and understanding of how professional education transforms lives. This position connects PSC's academic mission to revenue generation and donor engagement.

Essential Functions

Teaching Excellence & Mentorship Leadership

• Master Teacher & Capstone Facilitation : Teach 6 courses annually (calculated by credit hour across both credit and non credit), primarily capstone projects, internship supervision, and experiential learning courses that leverage existing online frameworks while providing high-touch mentorship to students at critical transition points in their professional development
• Experiential Learning Architecture : Design and facilitate transformative experiential learning experiences including experiential project-based learning, community-engaged capstone projects, and employer partnership experiences that prepare students for career impact and civic contribution
• Student Mentorship & Career Development : Provide individualized mentorship to capstone and internship students, leveraging extensive professional networks to create meaningful learning opportunities and career connections aligned with the 4D Experience framework
• Faculty Development Leadership : Serve as senior mentor to faculty colleagues on experiential pedagogy, student-centered teaching, assessment of learning outcomes, and integration of real-world application into curriculum
• Teaching Innovation & Scholarship of Teaching : Model excellence in teaching innovation, contribute to scholarship of teaching and learning, and bring national perspectives on best practices in experiential learning, professional education, career-focused pedagogy, or related fields relevant to PSC's program portfolio
• Program Quality & Accreditation Support : Contribute senior faculty expertise to program assessment, quality assurance, and continuous improvement initiatives across PSC's portfolio of professional education programs

Strategic External Relations & Partnership Development

Strategic Planning & Organizational Leadership

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Distinguished Teaching & Academic Leadership

Strategic Leadership & External Relations

Professional Stature & Innovation

Personal Qualities & Leadership Style

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Reporting Relationship & Key Collaborations

The position serves on the Dean's senior leadership team and participates in college-wide strategic planning, budget development, faculty affairs, and organizational decision-making.

This position holds full-time core faculty status in the Teaching Professorial Series with full participation in faculty governance at the rank of Teaching Professor. The Faculty Director works in close, integrated partnership with :

Work Schedule

While the University's administrative offices are open Monday - Friday, 8 : 00 am - 4 : 30 pm, faculty schedules vary from term to term and are based on courses taught, service commitments, and research agendas. The University's academic calendars are posted on the registrar's website (the law school is on a semester system and has a different academic calendar ).

Application Deadline

For consideration, please submit your application materials by 4 : 00 p.m. (MST) November 20, 2025.

Special Instructions

Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.

Salary Grade Number :

The salary grade for the position is UC.

Salary Range :

The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $145,000

The University of Denver has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The University may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate's sex or any other protected status.

Benefits :

The University of Denver offers excellent benefits , including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference. Learn more about the University of Denver .

Please include the following documents with your application :

1. Curriculum Vitae

2. Cover Letter

The University of Denver is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), marital, family, or parental status, pregnancy or related conditions, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. The University of Denver does not discriminate and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex (including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), marital family, and parental status, pregnancy, genetic information, military enlistment, or veteran status, and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance in any of the University's educational programs and activities, and in the employment (including application for employment) and admissions (including application for admission) context, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; the Americans with Disabilities Act; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Equal Pay Act; the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; the Colorado Protecting Opportunities and Worker's Rights ("POWR") Act; and any other federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances that prohibit discrimination, harassment, and / or retaliation. For more information, please see the University of Denver's Non‑Discrimination‑Statement .

All offers of employment are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check.

To apply, visit https : / / jobs.du.edu / en-us / job / 498455

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