Position Available

Director of the Professional Personnel Development Center for Career and Technical Education

Beginning

July 1, 2013

Appointment conditions:

This is a fixed-term, multi-year appointment. Full University benefits apply. Penn State has a strong commitment to the diversity of its workforce. We encourage applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities:

The Director of the Professional Personnel Development Center for Career and Technical Education (PPDC), directs the externally funded PPDC and related projects, builds and maintains professional relationships with various local, state, and national Career and Technical Education (CTE) groups, manages administrative tasks related to the PPDC such as coordinating PPDC activities through the College of Education and the College of Agricultural Sciences, manages personnel, and provides relevant service to the field of CTE.

Required qualifications:

• Earned doctorate in Career and Technical Education, or a closely related field;
• Practical experience working in the field of CTE;
• Knowledge of secondary and postsecondary CTE;
• Experience in preparing CTE personnel; as well as working with local, state, and national CTE governmental offices and organizations;
• Experience writing and submitting external funded proposals;
• Experience managing and directing externally funded projects;
• Experience in supervising and managing personnel;
• Experience in and evidence of a commitment to working collegially and with individuals from diverse backgrounds.

The Pennsylvania State University

Penn State [http://www.psu.edu] is a comprehensive, multi-campus research university serving all regions of the Commonwealth, as well as the nation and the world in instruction, research, and service roles that require responsiveness to and support from society's public and private sectors. As a land-grant university, Penn State has responsibility for providing a wide array of programs in the professional and technical disciplines, as well as a balanced offering of undergraduate and graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Penn State shares with other major research universities the traditional responsibilities to discover, develop, preserve, and disseminate knowledge.

The College of Education

The College of Education [http://www.ed.psu.edu] at Penn State was established in 1923 to deepen and extend knowledge about the formation and utilization of human capabilities. It offers resident degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as an extensive outreach effort aimed at continuing professional development for educators at distant locations. The College's research program is also extensive; College faculty members secured over $46 million in external support during the past three years from a wide range of national and state government agencies, private foundations, and corporations. The College's location within a large, research oriented, land-grant university provides numerous opportunities for studying education from multidisciplinary perspectives in the context of a university-wide commitment to making life better for all citizens.

The College houses four academic departments: Curriculum and Instruction; Education Policy Studies; Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education; and Learning and Performance Systems. The departments offer seven undergraduate majors to more than 2,500 students and 12 graduate programs, under authority of the Graduate School, to nearly 1,000 students. Recent surveys rank the Penn State College of Education among the top colleges, schools, and departments of education in the United States.

Department of Learning and Performance Systems (LPS)

The Department of Learning and Performance Systems [http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/lps] includes three programs: Adult Education, Instructional Systems, and Workforce Education and Development.  All three programs offer separate degrees, but students, faculty, and staff collaborate on teaching, research, and service.

Workforce Education and Development

The mission of the Workforce Education and Development Program is to promote excellence, opportunity, and leadership among professionals in the workforce education and development field including, but not limited to, those employed in secondary or postsecondary education institutions, social services industries, employee groups, and private businesses. The Career and Technical Education emphasis focuses upon preparing individuals for Pennsylvania licensure as teachers and administrators as well as research in the field.  The program is located in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems in the College of Education at Penn State.

The Professional Personnel Development Center for Career and Technical Education

Established in 1978 by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), the Professional Personnel Development Center for Career and Technical Education at Penn State seeks to advance the field of CTE through research, development, outreach, and leadership to improve practice, provide access to high quality teacher and administrator education, as well as pre-service and in-service professional development. The activities of the PPDC are primarily centered upon secondary-level CTE through objectives annually established by PDE’s Bureau of Career and Technical Education.

Application procedures:

Applicants must submit a letter of application documenting qualifications for the position, a current résumé or curriculum vitae, copies of official graduate transcripts (where appropriate), copies of three scholarly publications or other professional writing samples (if available), and contact information for at least three references (name, mail and e-mail addresses, telephone numbers). Applications received by February 1, 2013, are assured full consideration; however, applications will be received until the position is filled.

Electronic submission of all materials is strongly preferred. Send application materials to cdf2@psu.edu.

Those who do not have access to electronic mail can direct hardcopy of application materials to:

Cynthia Fetters
Search Committee Support
411E Keller Building
University Park, PA  16802

This job announcement is also available in alternate format. Employment will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.