[Commlist] Associate Professor of Digital Strategies - Old Dominion University

Apologies for cross-posting. We begin reviewing applications on January 15.


The Department of Communications and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion 
University is seeking to hire a tenure-eligible Associate Professor of 
Digital Strategies for Fall 2019. The individual filling this position 
will play a leadership role in shaping the department’s growing public 
relations concentration, supervise graduate students on digital 
strategic communications projects and research, and will serve as the 
founding executive director of a student-led digital services firm that 
designs and implements multimedia campaigns for real-world clients.

We are seeking a scholar-practitioner with strong commitments to 
entrepreneurial research, community-engaged research, service learning, 
and enhancing diversity. The ideal candidate will have worked in digital 
strategic communications, audience cultivation and engagement via social 
media, public relations, crisis communications, or user experience 
design both in and outside of academia, for either private, public, 
non-profit or grassroots organizations, and maintains an active research 
agenda in one or more of those areas. The successful candidate will have 
a demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity. The 
candidate should possess strong networking and stakeholder cultivation 
skills, and possess the ability to develop interdisciplinary 
partnerships with other communication-related academic disciplines.

The candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Communications, Digital Media 
Studies, Public Relations, or a related field. They must have a research 
portfolio and track record worthy of tenure and the rank of Associate 
Professor at a Carnegie-designated High Research Activity institution. 
They must have a minimum of 5 years teaching experience at the 
University level (with experience teaching both undergraduate and 
graduate students strongly preferred).

We are interested in candidates whose research interests also intersect 
with qualitative research methods, organizational communications, media 
industries studies, platform studies, health or science communications. 
Grant writing skills would be a valuable asset. Digital campaign 
management experience is also an asset.

To be considered for the position, applicants must provide a letter 
outlining their experience and interest in the position, a CV, a writing 
sample, an example of a digital strategic communications 
project/campaign they have worked on, and a list of three references. 
References will not be contacted until the campus visit stage of the 
interview process. Evaluation of applicant packets will commence 
January 15, 2019 and continue until the position is filled. Interested 
applicants can do so at: http://jobs.odu.edu/postings/8839


<http://jobs.odu.edu/postings/8839>For questions, please contact the 
search committee chair, Dr. Fran Hassencahl, at (fhassenc /at/ odu.edu) or 
department chair, Avi Santo at (asanto /at/ odu.edu)


Old Dominion University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action 
institution. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with 
disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.


In response to a few questions I've received:

1) We are defining "digital strategies" broadly. We are casting a wide 
net for anyone who has done work in/research on strategic digital 
communication, including social media marketing, transmedia experiences, 
crowd funding, user experience design, social movement mobilization 
tactics, public relations, crisis communications, and/or user engagement 
for private, public, or non-profit sectors.
2) The digital strategies firm that we are hoping the candidate will 
serve as "executive director" for is still a work in progress. Indeed, 
we are looking for applicants with creative and community-engaged 
visions to help shape the firm's mission. At the moment, the only 
criteria we are firm on about the firm (see what I did there?) is that 
it will be student-run, connected to an interdisciplinary curriculum, 
and will work with real-world clients.

3) One does not need to already be tenured to apply. This is an 
Associate Professor position, but applicants who are advanced Assistant 
Professors can request that tenure be granted with their appointment or 
that tenure be deferred for a couple of years (while still coming on 
board as an Associate Professor).

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