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

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 
December 15, 2018 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 Hassecahol, at (fhassenc /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.


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