Chief Academic Officer jobs in Tucson, AZ

Plan and coordinate the postbaccalaureate training program activities that occur at the University of Arizona

• Match program participants to faculty members in the University of Arizona Cancer Center whose research is aligned with the participants’ long-term career goals.
• Plan professional development sessions, and as appropriate, teach the sessions or recruit appropriate University of Arizona staff or faculty members to lead these.
• Plan social events that allow the program participants to network with peers and role models.
• Plan a final, end-of-year event for the program.
• Partner with evaluation experts to assess the impact of this training program.
• Plan and implement a speaker series that brings faculty members from other universities to interact with the program participants, sharing their professional journeys and research projects.
• Make the necessary arrangements for the participants attendance at national conferences that are relevant to progress of the participants into cancer-relevant doctoral degree programs.
• As needed, assist the participants with preparing materials for presentations at the national conferences (e.g., poster presentation).
• Accompany participants to the national conferences, as needed.

Coordinating cancer education and cancer-relevant lessons for junior high and high school teachers

• Become familiar with the lessons that the University of Cancer Center has already created.
• Deliver the lessons to teachers upon request and collect them back after the lessons are complete.
• Maintain a record-keeping system and output metrics for outreach programs.

Plan and deliver a summer workshop to familiarize junior high and high school teachers with the cancer-relevant lessons developed by the Cancer Center.

• Advertise and recruit teachers who are not familiar with the Cancer Center lessons.
• Plan the schedule for the workshop, make room reservations in the Cancer Center.
• Instruct the teachers in lessons and/or recruit Cancer Center staff as instructors.
• Partner with evaluation experts to assess the impact of this training program.

Follow university practices for handling program expenses and monitoring the budget

• As needed, order supplies needed for operation of the program.
• Complete necessary paperwork related to program expenses (e.g., P-card reports, travel requests and travel reimbursement).
• Review budget reports provided by the University of Arizona Cancer Center’s business office, to ensure accuracy with program expenses.