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Two positions at the rank of Assistant Professor | Department of Global Communications

 
 

The American University of Paris invites applications for two full-time positions in the Global Communications Department at the rank of Assistant Professor. The department is looking for candidates with a strong background in the following areas: politics and new media (convergence culture), social movements, globalization, comparative media and web journalism.

 

The Institution: Founded in 1962, located on the Left Bank in central Paris, the AUP is a small university with a liberal-arts core, dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences in an international, multicultural environment. With values rooted in the American Higher education system, AUP is accredited in the USA by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. It is also recognized by the French Ministry of Education.

 

The Department: Dedicated to the international, comparative study of communications and media, AUP’s Department of Global Communications offers a BA degree with different specializations — plus an innovative and expanding MA program in Global Communications. The Department has seven full-time faculty, 12 part-time faculty, 125 undergraduate majors and 60 full-time MA students.

 

Post 1 - Responsibilities: new faculty would be expected to take responsibility for courses in Global New Media and Social Movements. Teaching would also include introductory-level to MA-level courses in the following areas: convergence culture and social movements, web culture, game theory and critical journalism studies. Ability to teach courses in social networking and new media and public relations and society would be a plus. Commitment to scholarship, excellence in teaching, student advising, university service, and liberal arts pedagogy required.

 

Post 1 - Qualifications: Ph.D. in communications or journalism by time of appointment (August 1, 2010). Clear capacity for research and strong teaching record. European Union citizenship or legal right to work in France is a decided advantage. Fluency in French a plus. Additional languages a strong plus.

 

Post 2 – Responsibilities: applicants for the second position will develop master Online Journalism at AUP, designing and teaching courses for a new digital-journalism major (practical and critical-theoretical courses) and coordinating internships for journalism students. Course areas will include reporting, editing, publishing, NGO or public-interest and investigative reporting, also cultural reporting and criticism. The successful candidate will manage the department website, a student online journalism blog and digital radio broadcasts/podcasts. He/she will also continue contributing to online publications as a journalist. Experience in the management of academic programs an advantage

 

Post 2 - Qualifications: Demonstrated excellence in online journalism for large audiences. Reporting and editing experience. Cutting-edge practical knowledge of digital journalism. Interpersonal skills and professional participation in coordination of student internships. Experience designing and editing print and web publications. The successful candidate must be able to multi-task between program design management and maintenance, teaching practical courses, mentoring students, and furthering her/his own journalism career. Fluency in French and English obligatory. Relevant graduate training (Ph.D. preferred) and academic publishing a plus.

 

Applications: Please send brief cover letter, statement of research interests, one writing sample, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of reference to Dr. Justin McGuinness, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Global Communications, The American University of Paris, 6 rue du Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris, France. E-mail inquiries welcome (comsearch@aup.fr) but applications MUST be sent by mail.

 

Review of applications will begin November 1, and continue until the positions are filled.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant/Associate Professor | Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development

 
 

Chartered as a liberal arts college in 1962, the American University of Paris is today an urban, independent, international university located at the confluence of France, Europe, and the world. We aim to provide the finest American undergraduate and graduate programs to students from all national, linguistic, and educational backgrounds, and to take our place as a renowned global center for innovative interdisciplinary research.

 

Ours is an academic culture of engagement, global citizenship, and community that fosters in students and faculty alike a critical sense of commitment to and responsibility for a world of interdependence. In the multilingual, multicultural learning environment of The American University of Paris, students develop a capacity for ethical and political judgment that is alert to cultural diversity. In the living laboratory that is Paris, in the exceptional space of the AUP classroom, students and faculty of 100 different nationalities meet to articulate civic values and negotiate difference, as together they question, reflect upon, and work toward creative solutions to real-world challenges.

 

With an eye to building two signature interdisciplinary programs—an undergraduate program in “Science, Technology and Society,” and a new Master’s program in Sustainable Development Practice—AUP currently invites applications for a position at assistant or associate professor rank, beginning fall 2010, in the Science Department.

 

You will have the opportunity to create a new undergraduate program, drawing upon new pedagogies of science teaching, as well as to contribute actively—with a group of colleagues from different disciplines--to the development of the new Master’s program. You will be called upon to develop and teach at both levels courses in several aspects of environmental science, e.g. climate change, energy, water, sustainability, as well as those of your own devising. You will take part in departmental curricular development and renewal, student advising, and university service. You will work with student activist groups on campus to build an increasingly green environment, as well as environmental awareness at AUP.

 

To succeed in this role you will need to hold a Ph.D. in a natural science and demonstrate the potential for high-quality, innovative, interdisciplinary research at the international level. You will need to love teaching, and be able to demonstrate a record of successfully having done so as a graduate student or ranked professor. You will receive special attention if you speak fluent French and hold European Union working papers (although neither is a requirement for the job), have experience in policy formation or environmental activism, and show evidence of strong moral commitment to global sustainability.

 

If this sounds like the job for you, kindly submit:

· A letter of interest demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence and active learning in a diverse liberal arts environment

· A statement of teaching philosophy, including your areas of teaching interests and experience

· A statement of research interests and experience

· A curriculum vitae

· Two letters of recommendation, and contact information of two additional referees who may be contacted if the application is shortlisted.

 

Applications must be sent by email to: sc-search@aup.fr

 

Review of applications will begin November 15, 2009 and continue until the position is filled.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Full-Time Faculty Position - Entrepreneurship and Marketing | Department of International Business Administration

 
 

The Division of International Business Administration at The American University of Paris seeks a faculty member to teach courses in Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the undergraduate level. The ideal candidate will hold a doctorate in Entrepreneurship or Marketing, have recent publications and/or conference presentations, be able to teach comfortably in both disciplines, have experience living and/or working in more than one country, and speak fluent English.

 

 

Qualifications


(1) Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship or Marketing (or a closely related area),

(2) record of recent publications,

(3) fluency in English, and

(4) ability to teach both Entrepreneurship and Marketing courses.

 

 

Application procedure


Qualified applicants should forward their application package electronically to the Department Chair, Diane Hamilton, at dhamilton@aup.edu.

 

Applications should include:

(1) cover letter indicating teaching experience in each discipline,

(2) CV,

(3) contact information for three references,

(4) recent student evaluation results (if available), and

(5) other pertinent documents as desired (e.g., relevant course syllabi).

 

Working knowledge of French would be an advantage but is not required.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Full-Time Faculty Position - Accounting | Department of International Business Administration

 
 

he Division of International Business Administration at The American University of Paris seeks a faculty member to teach accounting at the undergraduate level. The ideal candidate will have either a Ph.D. in Accounting or professional experience in the field, experience teaching both financial and managerial accounting, and speak fluent English.

 

 

Qualifications


(1) Ph.D. in accounting or professional experience in the field,

(2) fluency in English,

(3) ability to teach financial and managerial accounting courses,

(4) Knowledge of US GAAP and the movement of US companies towards international financial standards,

(5) sufficient understanding of the field to take the lead in development and maintenance of all accounting offerings.

 

 

Application procedure


Qualified applicants should forward their application package electronically to the Department Chair, Diane Hamilton, at dhamilton@aup.edu.

 

Applications should include:

(1) cover letter indicating teaching experience,

(2) CV,

(3) contact information for three references,

(4) recent student evaluation results, and

(5) other pertinent documents as desired (e.g., relevant course syllabi).

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Director of Admissions

 
 

Chartered as a liberal arts college in 1962, The American University of Paris is today an urban, independent, international university located at the confluence of France, Europe, and the world. We aim to provide the finest American undergraduate and graduate programs to students from all national, linguistic, and educational backgrounds, and to take our place as a renowned global center for innovative interdisciplinary research.

The University’s mission is to educate AUP graduates to communicate well in a world of many languages, to think critically about history, culture, the arts, science, politics, business, communication, and society, to develop creative interdisciplinary approaches to important contemporary challenges, to be both technologically and culturally literate in a world of swift-paced change, to understand the ethical imperatives of living in such a world, and to take their places as responsible actors in communities, civil societies, and countries around the globe.

AUP’s is an academic culture of engagement, global citizenship, and community that fosters in students and faculty alike a critical sense of commitment to and responsibility for a world of interdependence. In the multilingual, multicultural learning environment of The American University of Paris, students develop a capacity for ethical and political judgment that is alert to cultural diversity. In the living laboratory that is Paris, in the exceptional space of the AUP classroom, students and faculty of 100 different nationalities meet to articulate civic values and negotiate difference, as together they question, reflect upon, and work toward creative solutions to real-world challenges.

 

Location as Endowment:

Spread across eight buildings in Paris’ 7th arrondissement stretching from the Eiffel Tower to the Invalides, AUP has the remarkable advantage of its unparalleled location. The University shares this neighborhood with other American institutions, such as the American Library of Paris, and the American Church. This past year, AUP purchased its third building, known as Combes, a block from the Seine, and is actively pursuing opportunities to consolidate its real estate in central Paris. AUP’s substantial endowment has always been our location in the greatest city in the world, and, investing it wisely, we have attached our curriculum to the histories of the city—to Paris’s many centuries of art, culture, literature, politics, music, sociology and the like, to its monuments, libraries, neighborhoods, but also to the edgy new Paris of demographic shifts, rising multiculturalism, food that is other than French, urban renewal, and texts in many different languages.

 

AUP’s Academic Program:

AUP is a small, dynamic “world university” with a curriculum to match—one that focuses on the cross cultural and the comparative. The University’s curriculum is essentially American, although inflected by the international educational background of AUP’s diverse faculty body. The rigorous University curriculum is divided into four schools—Arts and Sciences, Communications and Film, International Business, and International Politics, Economics and Public Policy—which house 14 different undergraduate majors and 8 graduate programs. Interdisciplinary programs and minors flourish across all four divisions, driven by faculty research interests and scholarly passions. AUP is also host to an interdisciplinary Arts Arena, a Forum for Culture and Society, a Center for Writers and Translators, a Cahiers series, a Fine Arts Gallery space, and numerous lecture series, such as the Working Paper Series in the Social Sciences, and the AUP Public Lectures in the Humanities. AUP also enjoys partnerships with a global consortium of 22 American universities across Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa, as well as with liberal arts institutions in the US, and national universities across Europe. A transatlantic international curriculum is currently being designed in partnership with the Eugene Lang College of The New School in New York City.

 

Students:

AUP students come from virtually every educational system in the world, representing approximately 100 different nationalities each year. The entering class has brought 87 different languages and dialects into the University since 2001. The exceptional demographic diversity of the University community has a powerful impact on teaching and learning, and is the first reason students cite for choosing to get a degree at AUP. Along with all the other constituents of the University, students contribute handsomely to the culture of interdependence at AUP.

 

Faculty:

AUP’s faculty body is composed of 23 different nationalities, representing all continents of the world. Dedicated to teaching, the faculty is also richly productive, hosting high numbers of international conferences, study groups, research projects, and events each year. Faculty research tends to focus on the cross-cultural, the comparative, and the interdisciplinary, supporting the University’s mission of producing students for a world held in common. A shared curricular vision stretches across the four divisions at both graduate and undergraduate levels, one that looks toward global sustainability, conflict resolution, world governance, cultural translation, and address of social injustice by every disciplinary tool at our disposal, but most important of all, focuses upon the steady cultivation of our own and our students’ humanity. AUP has no separate graduate faculty—all faculty members who participate in graduate teaching also teach in the undergraduate program.

 

Admissions:

The American University of Paris seeks to enroll adventurous, open, intellectually curious, culturally competent, and linguistically adept (or motivated to become so) students who will make the most of the University’s vibrant, internationally diverse campus flavor and learning community. Given our unique mission, location, and target population, it is vital that our recruitment efforts and admissions policies are aligned, and that publications accurately describe the student population most likely to thrive at AUP.

As AUP seeks to meet the challenges facing all institutions of higher education, but most critically those recruiting globally, the University’s admissions function has been strategically redefined. The Admissions Office is in full, productive renewal, including the hiring of new leadership, hiring of new staff, the closing of the US office in Denver, the centralizing of a global admissions strategy in Paris, expansion into e-recruiting, social networking, and the use of technology to market the University’s unique educational product, even a complete refurbishment of the Admissions Office.

AUP seeks a dynamic, articulate, experienced leader to develop a new enrollment management strategy that will build upon the University’s exceptional curriculum, exceptional location, and uniquely international educational environment.

 

University Governance and Reporting Relationships:

AUP is led by the President, who is appointed by a 26-member Board of Trustees comprised of dedicated alumni, business leaders, nonprofit leaders, and people from a range of professions and walks of life. AUP’s Board Chair, Judith Ogilvie, is an alumna of the first class of graduates. Increasing numbers of alumni have joined the Board, bringing further passion and commitment to planning for AUP’s future.

In October 2008, Celeste Schenck became AUP’s twelfth president. Having served AUP for nearly 20 years in multiple capacities, President Schenck was a Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Dean for Curriculum Development, Vice President for Academic Innovation, Vice President for Development and Grants Management, Dean of the University and Provost before assuming presidential responsibility. Schenck is a scholar of women’s literature, editor of multiple series, and, more recently, co-author of books on women, culture, and development. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her doctorate from Brown University.

The Director of Admissions reports directly to the President, with whom he or she will work intensely and closely. The Director of Admissions serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet, along with the VP for Student Services, the VP for Finance and Administration, the Director of Development, the Academic Dean, and four faculty leaders of the four academic divisions. The Director also works closely with the Board Subcommittee on Enrollment.

 

Position Description:

AUP currently invites applications for the position of Director of Admissions. Key challenges for our next Director of Admissions will include:

 

Recruitment, Admissions and Office Management:

Energetic leadership of a team of recruitment and admissions professionals in an inspirational and creative manner in an increasingly competitive international environment

Establishment, in association with the President and senior staff members, of all recruitment and admissions targets across all categories of students for both fall and spring admissions cycles; meeting of all targets for student recruitment

Daily management of student admissions and financial aid processes, including full-time undergraduate and graduate students, visiting and transfer students

Daily management of all recruitment and admissions staff to ensure that an effective team-based approach to duties is successfully established; creation of a disciplined admissions process and function, and training of staff to ensure its implementation

Liaison with the Board, the President and Senior Staff to ensure that recruitment and admissions strategies, targets, and other issues are clearly communicated to all concerned

Management of effective relationships with other relevant offices within the University, including Student Affairs, the Registrar, Advancement and Alumni Affairs, Public Relations and Communications, as well as with faculty colleagues

 

Development of Strategy:

Development of a recruitment and admissions strategy that enrolls the kind of student most likely to flourish and to succeed at AUP.

Development of a recruitment and admissions strategy based upon agreed-upon student admissions targets, one that additionally supports AUP’s institutional strategic plan and objectives

Development of a strategy that seeks to diversify AUP’s traditional sources of student recruitment, all the while maintaining optimal ratios of degree-seeking to visiting students, undergraduate to graduate students; particular emphasis shall be placed on the development of strategies in prioritized geographic target markets

Communication and discussion of such strategy with Admissions staff to ensure effective planning and implementation.

 

Marketing and Communications:

Enhancement of international marketing and recruitment activities to promote the distinctiveness of studying at AUP

Development of appropriate marketing and communications plans to ensure that student recruitment and admissions targets are met

Management and implementation of marketing and communications techniques that support student recruitment in an international context, with a particular emphasis on developing new markets for student recruitment to AUP

Management of the individual marketing and communications plans of all Admissions staff.

Use of state-of-the-art on-line marketing techniques to ensure that AUP academic programs are presented to appropriate international target markets.

 

External Relations:

Leadership as a senior ambassador for AUP internationally in a range of contexts

Development of an international profile for AUP that supports the strategic goals of the University, with a sharp focus on student recruitment and admissions

Development, with AUP Senior Staff, of strategic institutional partnerships that provide innovative routes to increased student recruitment

Identification, with AUP Senior Staff, of key institutional partnerships to enhance AUP’s international positioning, notably in the area of academic partnerships.

 

Opportunities and Challenges:

You will have the opportunity, at AUP, to put your mark on the creation of a dynamic, technologically sophisticated, creatively and efficiently organized admissions team within a small, tightly knit community. You will work closely with the President, Board, and Senior Staff to broaden AUP’s recruitment and admissions reach, to articulate an enrollment approach that will support the institutional strategic plan, and to involve all of AUP’s constituencies in its implementation. To that end, you will work collaboratively and transversally with other directors in the Advancement and Outreach group, participate on the President’s Cabinet, and connect with faculty, students, alumni and staff across the University. You will use your languages and your cultural competencies to move between AUP’s vastly varying target markets, and to build new ones. You will rapidly come to share the excitement of members of the community for the University’s mission, and will communicate that enthusiasm to prospective students and their families, to schools, guidance professionals, administrators at partner institutions, and to governments. In short, you will have the satisfaction of experiencing the direct impact of your leadership and entrepreneurialism on the University’s forward motion.

Challenges include the vastness of AUP’s global “catchment” basin (our alumni live in 163 different countries), and the rapidly changing and increasingly competitive face of international education.

 

Qualifications:

To succeed in this role, you will need to hold a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent. In addition, you will need to have a minimum of five years senior admissions and/or international student recruitment experience at a successful university or its equivalent. You will need to demonstrate proven management and team-building experience. You will have demonstrable skills in marketing research, market planning, and development of admissions strategy. You will manifest awareness of the current international education landscape, with knowledge of contemporary trends and marketing techniques. You will have a proven track record in setting and meeting student recruitment and admissions targets in an international setting. You must be willing to travel. You must speak English and master French, and manifest adeptness in crossing cultural borders. You will receive special attention if you speak fluent French and already have the legal right to work in France (although the latter is not a requirement for the job), and show promise of thriving in AUP’s special environment.

 

If this sounds like the job for you, kindly submit:

(1) A letter demonstrating your interest in developing AUP’s admissions capacity in a highly competitive, international higher education environment

(2) A brief statement within the letter of your personal and professional approach to student recruitment in an international environment

(3) A review of your experience, including your strengths and weaknesses in light of the job description

(4) A curriculum vitae or resume

(5) A list of three referees, including email addresses and telephone numbers, whom the search committee may contact

Applications should be sent by e-mail to Susan Mackay, Office of the President: smackay@aup.fr 

 

Compensation: Open, depending upon experience, and competitive

 

Starting Date: As soon as possible

 

Review of applications will begin in January 2010 and continue until the position is filled.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Director of Development

 
 

Chartered as a liberal arts college in 1962, The American University of Paris is today an urban, independent, international university located at the confluence of France, Europe, and the world. We aim to provide the finest American undergraduate and graduate programs to students from all national, linguistic, and educational backgrounds, and to take our place as a renowned global center for innovative interdisciplinary research.

The University’s mission is to educate AUP graduates to communicate well in a world of many languages, to think critically about history, culture, the arts, science, politics, business, communication, and society, to develop creative interdisciplinary approaches to important contemporary challenges, to be both technologically and culturally literate in a world of swift-paced change, to understand the ethical imperatives of living in such a world, and to take their places as responsible actors in communities, civil societies, and countries around the globe.

AUP’s is an academic culture of engagement, global citizenship, and community that fosters in students and faculty alike a critical sense of commitment to and responsibility for a world of interdependence. In the multilingual, multicultural learning environment of The American University of Paris, students develop a capacity for ethical and political judgment that is alert to cultural diversity. In the living laboratory that is Paris, in the exceptional space of the AUP classroom, students and faculty of 100 different nationalities meet to articulate civic values and negotiate difference, as together they question, reflect upon, and work toward creative solutions to real-world challenges.

 

Location as Endowment:

Spread across eight buildings in Paris’ 7th arrondissement stretching from the Eiffel Tower to the Invalides, AUP has the remarkable advantage of its unparalleled location. The University shares this neighborhood with other American institutions, such as the American Library of Paris, and the American Church. This past year, AUP purchased its third building, known as Combes, a block from the Seine, and is actively pursuing opportunities to consolidate its real estate in central Paris. AUP’s substantial endowment has always been our location in the greatest city in the world, and, investing it wisely, we have attached our curriculum to the histories of the city—to Paris’s many centuries of art, culture, literature, politics, music, sociology and the like, to its monuments, libraries, neighborhoods, but also to the edgy new Paris of demographic shifts, rising multiculturalism, food that is other than French, urban renewal, and texts in many different languages.

 

AUP’s Academic Program:

AUP is a small, dynamic “world university” with a curriculum to match—one that focuses on the cross cultural and the comparative. The University’s curriculum is essentially American, although inflected by the international educational background of AUP’s diverse faculty body. The rigorous University curriculum is divided into four schools—Arts and Sciences, Communications and Film, International Business, and International Politics, Economics and Public Policy—which house 14 different undergraduate majors and 8 graduate programs. Interdisciplinary programs and minors flourish across all four divisions, driven by faculty research interests and scholarly passions. AUP is also host to an interdisciplinary Arts Arena, a Forum for Culture and Society, a Center for Writers and Translators, a Cahiers series, a Fine Arts Gallery space, and numerous lecture series, such as the Working Paper Series in the Social Sciences, and the AUP Public Lectures in the Humanities. AUP also enjoys partnerships with a global consortium of 22 American universities across Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa, as well as with liberal arts institutions in the US, and national universities across Europe. A transatlantic international curriculum is currently being designed in partnership with the Eugene Lang College of The New School in New York City.

 

Students:

AUP students come from virtually every educational system in the world, representing approximately 100 different nationalities each year. The entering class has brought 87 different languages and dialects into the University since 2001. The exceptional demographic diversity of the University community has a powerful impact on teaching and learning, and is the first reason students cite for choosing to get a degree at AUP. Along with all the other constituents of the University, students contribute handsomely to the culture of interdependence at AUP.

 

Faculty:

AUP’s faculty body is composed of 23 different nationalities, representing all continents of the world. Dedicated to teaching, the faculty is also richly productive, hosting high numbers of international conferences, study groups, research projects, and events each year. Faculty research tends to focus on the cross-cultural, the comparative, and the interdisciplinary, supporting the University’s mission of producing students for a world held in common. A shared curricular vision stretches across the four divisions at both graduate and undergraduate levels, one that looks toward global sustainability, conflict resolution, world governance, cultural translation, and address of social injustice by every disciplinary tool at our disposal, but most important of all, focuses upon the steady cultivation of our own and our students’ humanity. AUP has no separate graduate faculty—all faculty members who participate in graduate teaching also teach in the undergraduate program.

 

University Advancement:

AUP has grown and professionalized its advancement function substantially over the past seven years, building strong relationships with its alumni, creating regional chapters, hosting Global Alumni Weekends in Paris, publishing a biannual alumni magazine, installing Raiser’s Edge, and an exciting new AUP Alumni Online community. Dedicated alumni trustees support the University’s efforts to reach out to its alumni. Parents are being increasingly solicited for engagement and support. AUP has also demonstrated the capacity to fundraise substantially for major projects. A mini-campaign for AUP’s Campus in the 7th to renovate facilities and purchase real estate is currently underway as the first step in a multi-year campaign for the University’s fiftieth anniversary.

 

Alumni Relations:

AUP has a dedicated, engaged alumni community of 9,500 members living in 163 different countries around the globe, a fact that can make fundraising a challenge. That said, AUP alumni are deeply engaged with the University, returning to campus as speakers, providing internships for AUP students, and supporting the University in its efforts to maintain contact with and extend our reach to active alumni worldwide.

 

University Governance and Reporting Relationships:

AUP is led by the President, who is appointed by a 26-member Board of Trustees comprised of dedicated alumni, business leaders, nonprofit leaders, and people from a range of professions and walks of life. AUP’s Board Chair, Judith Ogilvie, is an alumna of the first class of graduates.

In October 2009, Celeste Schenck became AUP’s twelfth president. Having served AUP for nearly 20 years in multiple capacities, President Schenck was a Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Dean for Curriculum Development, Vice President for Academic Innovation, Vice President for Development and Grants Management, Dean of the University and Provost before assuming presidential responsibility. Schenck is a scholar of women’s literature, editor of multiple series, and, more recently, co-author of books on women, culture, and development. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and her doctorate from Brown University.

The Director of Development reports directly to the President, with whom he or she will work intensely and closely. The Director of Development serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet, along with the VP for Student Services, the VP for Finance and Administration, the Director of Admissions, the Acting Academic Dean, and four faculty leaders of the four academic divisions. The Director also works closely with the Board of Trustee Committees on Development and Alumni Affairs.

 

Position Description:

AUP currently invites applications for the position of Director of Development, overseeing both advancement and alumni functions.

 

Key challenges for our next Director of Development will include:

Hands-on, entrepreneurial, and creative leadership of a relatively young development function

Energetic management and growth of the University’s Advancement Office, including development of its small, but dedicated and productive staff

Strategic oversight of the Annual Fund, Alumni, and database functions of that Office performed by its staff members

Articulation of the University’s fundraising plan in alignment with strategic goals and priorities of the University for academics, scholarships and the Campus Plan

Responsibility for mounting and implementing a multi-year campaign for AUP’s 50th Anniversary

Identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of major donors in close collaboration with the President and the Board, as well as Development staff

Demonstration of a capacity to fundraise “multilingually,” that is, according to American standards and practices of fundraising, but inflected by a European or Middle Eastern, African, or Asian sensibility (less overt, more tacit, and subtle in approach)

Enhancement of a culture of giving and volunteer engagement

Effective communication with a variety of different constituencies

 

Opportunities and Challenges:

You will have the opportunity, at AUP, to put your mark on the creation of a dynamic, technologically sophisticated, creatively and efficiently organized development team within a small, tightly knit community. You will work closely with the President and members of the Board to broaden AUP’s circle of major donors, to articulate a broad, multi-pronged development plan for the campaign, and to involve all of AUP’s constituencies in its implementation. To that end, you will work collaboratively and transversally with other directors in the Advancement and Outreach group, participate on the President’s Cabinet, and connect with faculty, students, alumni, and staff across the University. You will pioneer new ways to bring globally mobile alumni into a virtual community, and parents and other constituencies into a gradually widening base of support for the University. You will use your languages and your cultural competencies to move between different fundraising environments, slowly but surely building up an increasing circle of alumni, friend, and corporate donors. You will rapidly come to share the excitement of members of the community for the University’s mission, and will communicate that enthusiasm with alumni, donors, and granting institutions. In short, you will have the satisfaction of experiencing the direct impact of your leadership and entrepreneurialism on the University’s advancement capacity.

Challenges include the vast globalization of AUP alumni across 163 different countries, the lack of a native culture of giving to one’s alma mater, and the relative youth of the institution.

To succeed in this role, you will need to hold a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent; the successful candidate is likely to have a Master’s degree as well. You will have had an absolute minimum of four to five years of experience in development in non profit and higher education contexts, and will be able to show evidence of job experience and success in several areas, such as annual fund, planned giving, major gifts, and campaign operations. Campaign experience is a must. You will need to provide evidence of your capacity to become the University’s chief fundraiser by presenting your track record of gifts secured. You will show evidence of strong writing and communication skills, as well as meticulous organizational capacity. You must demonstrate by some means that you understand the differences between university fundraising in an American context and fundraising in other regional contexts, including your ability to “shift gears” when required. You must be willing to travel frequently. You will receive special attention if you speak fluent French and hold European Union working papers (although the latter is not a requirement for the job), have experience in organizing multi-year fundraising campaigns, and show promise of thriving in AUP’s special environment.

 

If this sounds like the job for you, kindly submit:

(1) A letter demonstrating your interest in developing AUP’s advancement capacity in an international, highly diverse environment

(2) A brief statement within the letter of your personal and professional approach to development

(3) A review of your experience, including your strengths and weaknesses in light of the job description

(4) A curriculum vitae or resume

(5) A list of three referees, including email addresses and telephone numbers, whom the search committee may contact

Applications should be sent by e-mail to Susan Mackay, Office of the President: smackay@aup.fr 

 

Compensation: Open, depending upon experience, and competitive

 

Starting Date: Negotiable

 

Review of applications will begin in December 2009 and continue until the position is filled.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Information Services Counselor: U.S. Focus | Office of Admissions

 
 

POSITION OVERVIEW:

 

Responsible for the management of enquiries, application and other prospective student data, the support of information and marketing activities central to the admissions function at AUP, and the specific function of providing data support to marketing and recruitment activities in the USA. As this is the first university contact in many cases, this position involves promoting a positive, nurturing relationship with prospective students and parents. The geographical focus of this position will be the USA.

 

 

DUTIES:

 

Data management

 

The joint management of the admissions database in liaison with the Information Services Counselor – World focus, and other relevant colleagues;

Provides data support for all staff focused in recruitment, admissions and marketing activities in the USA;

Produces application/enrollment statistics and answers enquiry and enrollment requests for US region– undergraduate and graduate.

Ensures efficient handover of applicant files to the Registrar at orientation;

 

Marketing and communications support

 

Maintains mailing lists for marketing and recruitment of all prospective students (PML, CIS and others) and ensures the execution of all communications campaigns in association with relevant Admissions Counselors and the Marketing and Information Services Counselor – World focus;

Manages enquiries (from all sources) for the USA, in association with all relevant colleagues;

The support of all relevant marketing activities and promotional initiatives implemented with Admissions Counselors - USA territory;

Responsible for editing, updating and producing acceptance packages for all students from the USA;

Coordinates with print-house where necessary;

Serves as campus contact for the in-house distribution of documentation;

 

Activities

 

Working well within the Admissions team through collaboration and sharing information so as to ensure the processing of applications.

Providing support, where necessary, to the Information Services Counselor – World region for updating admissions information on the AUP website and updating the undergraduate admissions section of the AUP Academic Catalog;

Responsible for a limited admissions territory dealing with certain files from inquiry to enrollment.

Aiding in the implementation of the ERP system and dedicated to improve processes especially in line with changes in Admissions policy or priorities

Other duties as assigned by Supervisor

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

 

Bachelors degree or equivalent

English, with fluency in French

High level of IT literacy, including familiarity with database organization and management

Experience in international education and international qualifications, ideally with some hands-on marketing background

Creative, with some experience of written communications

Excellent interpersonal skills, clear communicator and confident with people

 

 

CANDIDATES FOR THIS POSITION SHOULD APPLY TO GERALDINE OJALVO, E-MAIL: GOJALVO@AUP.FR

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Information Services Counselor: World Region | Office of Admissions

 
 

POSITION OVERVIEW:

 

Responsible for the management of enquiries, application and other prospective student data and the support of information and marketing activities central to the admissions function at AUP. As this is the first university contact in many cases, this position involves promoting a positive, nurturing relationship with prospective students and parents. The geographical focus of this position will be the world, not including the USA.

 

 

DUTIES:

 

Data management

 

The development, management and execution of an ongoing enquiry function that maximizes the potential for international student recruitment to AUP;

The joint management of the admissions database in liaison with the Information Services Counselor – US focus, and other relevant colleagues;

Produces application/enrollment statistics and answers enquiry and enrollment requests for Rest of the World region – undergraduate and graduate;

Ensures efficient handover of applicant files to the Registrar at Orientation;

 

Marketing and communications support

 

Maintains mailing lists for marketing and recruitment of all prospective students (PML, CIS and others) and ensures the execution of all communications campaigns in association with relevant Admissions Counselors and the Information Services Counselor – US focus;

Manages enquiries (from all sources) for World territories, in association with all relevant colleagues;

The support of all relevant marketing activities and promotional initiatives implemented with Admissions Counselors - World territories;

Responsible for editing, updating and producing acceptance packages for all students from the Rest of the World territories;

Responsible for tracking and maintaining minimum required levels of in-house documentation;

 

Activities

 

Working well within the Admissions team through collaboration and sharing information so as to ensure the processing of applications.

Responsible for updating certain aspects of admissions information on the AUP website, in liaison with the E-Recruitment Coordinator and updating the undergraduate admissions section of the AUP Academic Catalog;

Responsible for a limited admissions territory dealing with certain files from inquiry to enrollment.

Aiding in the implementation of the ERP system and dedicated to improve processes especially in line with changes in Admissions policy or priorities

Other duties as assigned by Supervisor

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

 

Bachelors degree or equivalent

English, with fluency in French

High level of IT literacy, including familiarity with database organization and management

Experience in international education and international qualifications, ideally with some hands-on marketing background

Creative, with some experience of written communications

Excellent interpersonal skills, clear communicator and confident with people

 

 

CANDIDATES FOR THIS POSITION SHOULD APPLY TO GERALDINE OJALVO, E-MAIL: GOJALVO@AUP.FR

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

REGULATIONS GOVERNING EMPLOYMENT IN FRANCE

 

Citizens of France and other European Union countries automatically have the right to reside and work in France.

 

If the successful applicant for a full-time faculty position is a citizen of some other country, The American University of Paris will apply for a visa to allow the person to live and work in France, but cannot obtain immigrant visas for spouses and dependents.

 

Applicants for part-time faculty positions and for administrative positions must have French or EU citizenship, or hold a valid French Carte de Résident.

 

 
 
 
 

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