Executive Director-Center for Global Leadership

Company: Oral Roberts University
Location: Tulsa
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

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 FunctionsThe 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
• Envisions and drives 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 of Whole Person (Spirit, Mind, and Body) Spirit-Empowered Leadership for faculty and students
• Advances academic programs through Global Leadership Badges, Micro-credentials, and DegreesDuties 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 on 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
  • Use independent judgment 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
  • Demonstrate Spirit-empowered leadership with strong analytical, problem-solving, strategic planning, and implementation skills with minimal supervision
  • Present 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
  • Plan and organize leadership development conferences and events for ORU students, as well as prospective students
  • Track and partner with national and international leadership organizations in ways that build the university leadership brand
  • Advise on current university on-campus and online leadership majors and minors while recommending new badges, micro-credentials, degrees, and certificates that target market demand
  • Oversee the incorporation and development of student assessment goals created in conjunction with faculty, colleges, and the Leadership Oversight Committee
  • 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
  • Design and facilitate leadership development workshops and conferences
  • Build an effective team of leaders within the Center by providing guidance and coaching to staff/subordinates, and develop and maintain exceptional Christian relationships with all constituencies of the university
  • Actively participate 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 assignedREQUIREMENTS
    • In-depth knowledge of leadership principles and best practices, including cross-cultural leadership experience
    • Outstanding record of leadership knowledge and 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
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