Are you interested in joining a highly collaborative, talented team at an exciting time in the history of Notre Dame? Do you want to help advance a major strategic priority for the University focused on ethics and the common good? If so, please apply to be the Associate Director of Research and Public Engagement for the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative (ND-EI) and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS).
Emerging from the University’s new Strategic Framework, ND-EI is a collaborative cross-campus initiative to establish Notre Dame as a premier university for research in ethics, offering superb training for future generations of ethicists and ethical leaders and directing all of our efforts toward guiding and strengthening public understanding of the most significant ethical issues of our time. The NDIAS is a University-level research institute that will play a signature role in the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, with an anticipated major rebrand in the coming year. The Institute convenes an interdisciplinary group of faculty fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate scholars each year to study questions that engage complex ethical challenges of our time and affect our ability to lead valuable, meaningful lives.
Working closely with the Institute’s faculty director and managing director, the associate director serves on the Institute’s leadership team to help to advance the mission and strategic objectives of the ND EI and the Institute, including to make Notre Dame the premiere destination for the research and study of ethics. This position leads the newly formed Research and Public Engagement team, supervising up to three staff members to expand and enhance faculty, postdoc, and graduate student research and scholarship that is interdisciplinary in nature and related to foundational and applied areas of ethics, including technology ethics, virtue ethics, business ethics, and more. He/she is responsible for leading and expanding the Distinguished Graduate Fellowship program that supports doctoral students with exceptional academic records whose research, teaching, and career interests centrally involve important ethical questions and values embedded within them. In this capacity, the associate director leads weekly seminars, an annual retreat, provides opportunities for doctoral fellows to network, supports their career development and prepares fellows for job talks and public lectures.
The associate director will work with Institute leadership to identify resources to expand the doctoral fellows program through benefaction and grant writing. Liaising with campus collaborators such as the Graduate School, professional schools, and the Office of the Provost, the associate director creates and implements a strategic plan to develop pathways for graduate students interested in ethics. He/she assists in forwarding an ambition plan to make Notre Dame a renowned and sought-after university for educating and training the next generation of ethicists. He/she is the administrative lead for receiving and placing postdocs within the ND EI’s and Institute’s research ecosystem. Finally, the associate director is responsible for developing and overseeing a process by which the research and scholarly outcomes that are supported through the Institute are properly tracked, assessed, captured, and utilized to grow the Institute’s and Notre Dame’s research impact and reputation in ethics. He/she is responsible for internal academic reporting and works with the faculty director to publish findings, best practices, and outcomes related to research in ethics. As a vital member of the Institute leadership team, the associate director will report to the managing director.
This is a limited term position for three years with the intention to make it non-limited once funding is secured.
