Red Deer College
Red Deer, AB, Canada
Red Deer College is hiring for Dean, Donald School of Business to support us in our transition to Red Deer University. While we recognize that we are in unprecedented circumstances as the world navigates through this pandemic, we are balancing our responsibility in pandemic planning as well as institutional continuity for the long term. To that end, we look forward to having you on our team.
The role of the Dean, Donald School of Business (DSB) is to contribute to strategic leadership of the College and to provide leadership to their School in support of a learner-centred environment. At Red Deer College (RDC), Deans are members of RDC’s Senior Administration team and report directly to the Vice President Academic and Research. As leaders within the academic portfolio, Deans play a significant role in the governance of the institution as a whole, in addition to their specific School. In collaboration with the Vice President Academic and Research, Associate Deans, and other Senior Leaders, Deans implement College and School goals to ensure that an effective learning environment is maintained. The Dean plays a key role in creating and maintaining a network of communication that facilitates integrated planning to support the overarching institutional strategic direction. In addition, the Dean may carry out other roles and projects as requested by the Vice President, Academic and Research.
The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader with a PhD in a related field, will have experience in a post- secondary environment, and will have a learner-centred mindset. They will have the ability to effectively manage the needs of their faculty, their students, and their School, while developing effective relationships with their fellow Senior Administrators. The ideal Dean is a mentor to their Associate Dean and an experienced manager of budgets, personnel, and fundraising/external relationships.
The Dean will be a leader to the Donald School of Business and will maintain responsibility for making complex decisions in an environment of shifting priorities and fiscal constraint. Under the Dean’s leadership the School will contribute to the long lasting, positive impact that the continued success of RDC, soon to be RDU, will have on the entire Central Alberta Community.
For 56 years, Red Deer College (RDC) has proudly served its learners and communities.
In 2018, RDC received approval to become a university, offering its own degrees. The College continues to grow programs across a breadth of credentials as it transitions to become a comprehensive regional teaching university during the next three to five years. Once this transition is complete, RDC will officially be known as Red Deer University. RDC offers more than 100 programs (including degrees, certificates, diplomas and skilled trades programs). With impressive new facilities that have opened recently, the College educates approximately 7,500 full-and part-time credit students and more than 34,000 youth and adult learners in the School of Continuing Education each year.
Our main campus is strategically situated on 290 acres of Alberta’s natural landscape along the Queen Elizabeth II Highway. We have also expanded our learning and performing arts space into the heart of downtown Red Deer through our Welikoklad Event Centre and the Donald School of Business.
Red Deer College is hiring for Dean, Donald School of Business to support us in our transition to Red Deer University. While we recognize that we are in unprecedented circumstances as the world navigates through this pandemic, we are balancing our responsibility in pandemic planning as well as institutional continuity for the long term. To that end, we look forward to having you on our team.
The role of the Dean, Donald School of Business (DSB) is to contribute to strategic leadership of the College and to provide leadership to their School in support of a learner-centred environment. At Red Deer College (RDC), Deans are members of RDC’s Senior Administration team and report directly to the Vice President Academic and Research. As leaders within the academic portfolio, Deans play a significant role in the governance of the institution as a whole, in addition to their specific School. In collaboration with the Vice President Academic and Research, Associate Deans, and other Senior Leaders, Deans implement College and School goals to ensure that an effective learning environment is maintained. The Dean plays a key role in creating and maintaining a network of communication that facilitates integrated planning to support the overarching institutional strategic direction. In addition, the Dean may carry out other roles and projects as requested by the Vice President, Academic and Research.
The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader with a PhD in a related field, will have experience in a post- secondary environment, and will have a learner-centred mindset. They will have the ability to effectively manage the needs of their faculty, their students, and their School, while developing effective relationships with their fellow Senior Administrators. The ideal Dean is a mentor to their Associate Dean and an experienced manager of budgets, personnel, and fundraising/external relationships.
The Dean will be a leader to the Donald School of Business and will maintain responsibility for making complex decisions in an environment of shifting priorities and fiscal constraint. Under the Dean’s leadership the School will contribute to the long lasting, positive impact that the continued success of RDC, soon to be RDU, will have on the entire Central Alberta Community.
For 56 years, Red Deer College (RDC) has proudly served its learners and communities.
In 2018, RDC received approval to become a university, offering its own degrees. The College continues to grow programs across a breadth of credentials as it transitions to become a comprehensive regional teaching university during the next three to five years. Once this transition is complete, RDC will officially be known as Red Deer University. RDC offers more than 100 programs (including degrees, certificates, diplomas and skilled trades programs). With impressive new facilities that have opened recently, the College educates approximately 7,500 full-and part-time credit students and more than 34,000 youth and adult learners in the School of Continuing Education each year.
Our main campus is strategically situated on 290 acres of Alberta’s natural landscape along the Queen Elizabeth II Highway. We have also expanded our learning and performing arts space into the heart of downtown Red Deer through our Welikoklad Event Centre and the Donald School of Business.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada
University of Alberta
Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences - Department of Renewable Resources
Endowed Chair in Forest Growth & Yield Assistant/Associate Professor
Competition No. - A108241128 Closing Date - Will remain open until filled.
The Department of Renewable Resources, in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada, invites applications for a candidate to serve as the Endowed Chair in Forest Growth & Yield. This is a tenure-track position; appointment as the Chair will be for five-year terms, renewable based on performance relative to the operating terms and objectives of the endowment. The Chair position is funded by industrial partners within the forest sector who are committed to working with the successful candidate in the development of a research program that will inform approaches to ensure sustainability of Alberta’s timber resource through developing an understanding of the impacts of climate, site, treatments, and other factors on forest growth. The research will include, for example, understanding the long-term outcomes of emerging approaches to harvest planning and silviculture. It is expected that the focus of the research program will be in Alberta, encompassing a variety of commercial forest types; e.g., areas dominated by varying mixtures of broadleaf (mainly aspen and balsam poplar) and conifer (mainly white spruce, black spruce, or lodgepole pine) tree species. Knowledge arising from the research should be incorporated into operational trials and to improvement of locally-relevant models of forest growth and yield. Through knowledge exchange, the research results will contribute to development of best practices recommendations, regulations and policy.
The successful candidate's research will complement existing strengths of the Department in forest management, tree improvement and genetics, silviculture, forest ecology, conservation biology, reclamation, and soils. It is expected that the successful candidate will proactively develop collaborative relationships with colleagues in the department, across UofA, at other institutions, and will engage with organizations in the forest sector that have a vested interest in growth and yield (e.g., Forest Growth Organization of Western Canada (FGrOW), Alberta Agriculture & Forestry, Canadian Forest Service). Applicants must be willing and able to interact with industrial and government (federal, provincial) professionals in the development, transfer and application of research that supports the goals for ecological, economic and social sustainability of forests. The successful applicant will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and actively contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Applicants who are Registered Professional Foresters, or who have the credentials to obtain that designation in Alberta, will be favourably considered.
The Faculty emphasizes excellence in teaching; therefore evidence of novel approaches and interest in non-traditional teaching methods is expected. Teaching responsibilities may include courses in forest mensuration, growth & yield, biometrics, stand dynamics, forest management and related forestry courses. Effective supervision of graduate students and participation on graduate student committees is also required.
An application package, including a cover letter, description of research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae , teaching dossier, and names of three referees should be submitted (upload as a single PDF file) online.
The Committee welcomes applications at any time and will begin considering candidates on March 21, 2020, continuing until the position is filled. Candidates selected for an interview can expect to be informed within a month. Additional information about the Renewable Resources Department and our research, undergraduate and graduate programs is available at: http://www.rr.ualberta.ca/
To assist the University in complying with mandatory reporting requirements of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (R203(3) (e)), please include the first digit of your Canadian Social Insurance Number in your application. If you do not have a Canadian Social Insurance Number, please indicate this in your application.
University of Alberta
Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences - Department of Renewable Resources
Endowed Chair in Forest Growth & Yield Assistant/Associate Professor
Competition No. - A108241128 Closing Date - Will remain open until filled.
The Department of Renewable Resources, in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada, invites applications for a candidate to serve as the Endowed Chair in Forest Growth & Yield. This is a tenure-track position; appointment as the Chair will be for five-year terms, renewable based on performance relative to the operating terms and objectives of the endowment. The Chair position is funded by industrial partners within the forest sector who are committed to working with the successful candidate in the development of a research program that will inform approaches to ensure sustainability of Alberta’s timber resource through developing an understanding of the impacts of climate, site, treatments, and other factors on forest growth. The research will include, for example, understanding the long-term outcomes of emerging approaches to harvest planning and silviculture. It is expected that the focus of the research program will be in Alberta, encompassing a variety of commercial forest types; e.g., areas dominated by varying mixtures of broadleaf (mainly aspen and balsam poplar) and conifer (mainly white spruce, black spruce, or lodgepole pine) tree species. Knowledge arising from the research should be incorporated into operational trials and to improvement of locally-relevant models of forest growth and yield. Through knowledge exchange, the research results will contribute to development of best practices recommendations, regulations and policy.
The successful candidate's research will complement existing strengths of the Department in forest management, tree improvement and genetics, silviculture, forest ecology, conservation biology, reclamation, and soils. It is expected that the successful candidate will proactively develop collaborative relationships with colleagues in the department, across UofA, at other institutions, and will engage with organizations in the forest sector that have a vested interest in growth and yield (e.g., Forest Growth Organization of Western Canada (FGrOW), Alberta Agriculture & Forestry, Canadian Forest Service). Applicants must be willing and able to interact with industrial and government (federal, provincial) professionals in the development, transfer and application of research that supports the goals for ecological, economic and social sustainability of forests. The successful applicant will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and actively contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Applicants who are Registered Professional Foresters, or who have the credentials to obtain that designation in Alberta, will be favourably considered.
The Faculty emphasizes excellence in teaching; therefore evidence of novel approaches and interest in non-traditional teaching methods is expected. Teaching responsibilities may include courses in forest mensuration, growth & yield, biometrics, stand dynamics, forest management and related forestry courses. Effective supervision of graduate students and participation on graduate student committees is also required.
An application package, including a cover letter, description of research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae , teaching dossier, and names of three referees should be submitted (upload as a single PDF file) online.
The Committee welcomes applications at any time and will begin considering candidates on March 21, 2020, continuing until the position is filled. Candidates selected for an interview can expect to be informed within a month. Additional information about the Renewable Resources Department and our research, undergraduate and graduate programs is available at: http://www.rr.ualberta.ca/
To assist the University in complying with mandatory reporting requirements of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (R203(3) (e)), please include the first digit of your Canadian Social Insurance Number in your application. If you do not have a Canadian Social Insurance Number, please indicate this in your application.
