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Job Description

• Work with the faculty and administration to support the department’s continuing growth and excellence in research, teaching, and service.
• Manage departmental operations including faculty, staff, budget, facilities, and teaching schedules.
• Maintain and enhance the culture of scholarly collaboration and faculty governance in the department.
• Support faculty recruitment, hiring, mentoring, career success, and promotion.
• Manage faculty evaluations and applications for promotion.
• Provide leadership to support faculty enhancement of undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
• Manage undergraduate and graduate student affairs issues as they arise.
• Represent and advocate for the department internally and externally.
• Maintain an active program of scholarship commensurate with rank and administrative commitments.

Minimum required education and/or special licenses, registrations, trainings, or certifications

1. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Psychology or a closely related field.
2. Previously earned tenure and have a research record sufficient to warrant the award of tenure at ODU (a Carnegie R1 institution).

Minimum required level and type of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Previously earned promotion to full professor.
• A research program aligns with one of the three Ph.D. concentrations is our department: Health, Human Factors, or Clinical.
• A strong track record of successful leadership across research, undergraduate, and graduate administration.
• Candidates with a demonstrated commitment to mentorship, to fostering a climate of collegiality, and to contributing to faculty governance in prior leadership roles.