Executive Director-Center for Global Leadership

The Center for Global Leadership champions curricular and co-curricular leadership development in cooperation with Academics, Student Life, Athletics, and HR to advance the ORU mission: To develop Holy Spirit-empowered leaders through whole person education to impact the world.

Key Center Functions

The Center for Global Leadership serves as a hub for uniting, leveraging, and driving leadership development across the university. The Executive Director:

• Champions leadership across campus as a member of the Leadership Oversight Committee
• Engages faculty and students in a dynamic exchange on the questions of leadership development for the 21st century from a Spirit-empowered perspective
• Helps shape and demonstrate a vibrant Spirit-empowered leadership ethos that equips students to impact the expanded Tulsa community and ultimately the world
• Embraces new technologies to bring leadership to bear in creative and transformative ways
• Envision and drive the leadership degrees of the future
• Advances university capacities to serve globally as the premier University for Spirit-empowered leadership development
• Fundraising capacities: Superb communication; relationship building; donor planning and implementation; individual and group presentations; and tracking and measuring effectiveness, among others
• Promotes Spirit-Empowered Leadership through original college research and publications
• Contributes to preparedness of ORU students and graduates to discover and implement solutions for the world's greatest challenges
• Works toward establishing a global network of Spirit-empowered leaders
• Contributes to the meaning and importance on Whole Person (Spirit, Mind, and Body) Spirit-Empowered Leadership for faculty and students
• Advances academic programs through Global Leadership Badges, Micro-credentials, and Degrees

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and advance all components for this dynamic new university Center, in the context of the university mission and University 5-Year Adaptive Plan
• Equip a diverse student population to understand and grow in personal and spiritual leadership capacities-with an emphasis in global awareness
• Work with the Leadership Oversight Committee to increase student capacities to recognize and respond to the greatest challenges of the day, through engagement, experiential learning, and hands-on leadership practice labs
• Uses independent judgement to develop and execute a comprehensive co-curricular leadership development program (with strategic business plan) in coordination with goals and objectives driven by the University 5-Year Adaptive Plan
• Demonstrates Spirit-empowered leadership with strong analytical, problem-solving, strategic planning, and implementation skills with minimal supervision
• Presents bi-annual co-curricular training workshops and seminars for ORU faculty and staff to strengthen leadership development through teaching, student advising, mentoring, service projects, and internships, etc.
• Plans and organizes leadership development conferences and events for ORU students, as well as prospective students
• Tracks and partners with national and international leadership organizations in ways that build the university leadership brand
• Advises on current university on-campus and online leadership majors and minors while recommending new badges, micro-credentials, degrees, and certificates that target market demand
• Oversees the incorporation and development of student assessment goals-created in conjunction with faculty, colleges, and the Leadership Oversight Committee
• Presents bi-annual co-curricular workshops and seminars for ORU faculty and staff to strengthen leadership development through teaching student advising, mentoring, service projects, and internships
• Serve as representative of the Center to prospective students and families at University-wide recruitment events
• Provide supervision to Center fellows/graduate assistants, and student workers
• Create baseline of student leadership development, track progress, and ensure database maintenance
• Provide oversight for a Center flagship publication
• Designs and facilitates leadership development workshops and conferences
• Builds an effective team of leaders within the Center by providing guidance and coaching to staff/subordinates, and develops and maintains exceptional Christian relationships with all constituencies of the university
• Actively participates in events and assigned duties that support the mission of the university
• Speak on behalf of the university and guest lecture, upon request to constituents
• Some travel, as well as evening and weekend work may be required
• Other duties as assigned

REQUIREMENTS

• In depth knowledge of leadership principles and best practices, including cross-cultural leadership experience
• Outstanding record of leadership knowledge abilities
• Proven thought leadership in an academic, organization, or ministry context
• Track record developing successful programs, strategies, and plans
• Excellent communication (oral and written)
• Experience in developing academic programs
• Graduate degree minimum in relevant field