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Department: Division of Academic Affairs

The Office of Academic Faculty Excellence is seeking a University Prestigious Awards Associate Director. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position. The Associate Director, University Prestigious Awards (ADUPA) advances Oregon State University’s efforts to increase faculty recognition through national and international awards, honors, fellowships, academy memberships, and other prestigious distinctions. Reporting to the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Excellence and housed within the Office of Academic Faculty Excellence (OAFE), this position serves as the university’s central resource for faculty recognition and awards support. The role provides organizational design, efficiency analysis, and process development for university wide faculty awards activities. The position develops and maintains strategic inventories of priority awards, analyzes and improves nomination workflows, recommends and implements solutions, develops communication plans, and provides training and assessment to strengthen institutional capacity for faculty recognition. The ADUPA collaborates with colleges, academic units, and university leaders to improve workflow, quality standards, and long term strategic planning related to faculty awards. This position plays an important role in advancing OSU’s strategic plan, Prosperity Widely Shared, by supporting faculty excellence and increasing the visibility and impact of OSU faculty. The role ensures long term institutional commitments to faculty recognition through sustained process design, capacity building, and strategic coordination.

Faculty Awards Coordination, Nomination Support, and Consultation

• Develop, maintain, and continuously evaluate a strategic, university wide inventory of high impact awards, honors, fellowships, academy memberships, and recognition pathways to ensure alignment with faculty accomplishments and institutional priorities. (Current awards can be found on the OSU website – over 1,000)
• Serve as a central liaison to colleges, academic units, and department leaders, providing guidance on award opportunities, nomination processes, workflow expectations, and candidate readiness.
• Identify, assess, and cultivate prospective candidates across colleges and career stages through systematic review of faculty accomplishments, benchmarking data, and long term readiness indicators.
• ADUPA will proactively research available awards available nationally and internationally, identify faculty, and encourage and assist colleges and departments to apply.
• Design, manage, and optimize nomination development and submission processes, including timelines, work plans, procedural steps, supporting materials, and internal review protocols to ensure efficiency and quality insuring consistency across colleges.
• Evaluate nomination materials for completeness, consistency, clarity, and alignment with award criteria, recommending improvements to strengthen competitiveness.
• Provide expertise for submission materials and documentation of submissions regardless of successful results.
• Coordinate and streamline external letter solicitation, internal review processes, and submission logistics to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to award requirements.
• Advance institutional visibility and recognition strategies by aligning awards efforts with OSU’s strategic priorities and identifying opportunities to elevate faculty accomplishments.
• Develop and deliver training, including workshops, information sessions, and individualized consultations, to build faculty and unit capacity for awards readiness and long term recognition planning.
• In addition to workshops, ADUPA will be available for college faculty meetings, New Faculty Orientation meetings, and Promotion & Tenure trainings.
• Partner with faculty and academic units to design long term recognition strategies by assessing award readiness, mapping award pathways, and recommending targeted activities that strengthen future candidacies and institutional competitiveness.

Awards Administration, Data Management, and Assessment

• Develop, maintain, and analyze awards databases, nomination records, tracking systems, and faculty recognition datasets to monitor progress, identify trends, and inform strategic decision making.
• Leverage Academic Analytics and other benchmarking tools to identify potential candidates, assess research productivity indicators, and uncover emerging recognition opportunities.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with peer institutions, professional societies, and award organizations to support process improvement, benchmarking, and external collaboration.
• Track and assess nomination activity, award outcomes, faculty recognition trends, and unit level engagement to inform continuous improvement and strategic planning.
• Prepare reports, briefing materials, and annual summaries for academic leaders and administrators, synthesizing data to support decision making and institutional strategy.
• Gather, analyze, and maintain information on peer institution practices, recognition programs, and national trends to support ongoing program enhancement and process refinement.

Service and Other Duties as Assigned

• Participate in OAFE, Provost’s Office, and university committees and initiatives, contributing expertise in process design, recognition strategy, and faculty support.
• Support unit planning, assessment, and continuous improvement activities, applying efficiency analysis and quality focused approaches to strengthen operations.
• Perform additional duties in support of faculty excellence, recognition, and institutional priorities as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution plus five years of professional experience OR Master’s degree plus three years of professional experience in higher education, academic administration, faculty affairs, faculty development, research administration, academic program management, advancement, fellowship advising, honors and awards programs, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, competing deadlines, and detailed processes.
• Experience collecting, organizing, analyzing, and reporting data through databases, spreadsheets, dashboards, or other tracking systems.
• Demonstrated commitment to advancing inclusive excellence and supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and career stages.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to drive work forward to produce clear results.
• This position is designated as a critical or security-sensitive position; therefore, the incumbent must successfully complete a criminal history check and be determined to be position qualified as per University Standard: 05-010 et seq. Incumbents are required to self-report convictions and those in youth programs may have additional criminal history checks every 24 months.

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctoral degree from an accredited institution.
• Experience supporting faculty nominations for awards, honors, fellowships, academy memberships, scholarly societies, or other forms of professional recognition, including knowledge of these opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships with faculty, academic leaders, and administrative partners.
• Experience using Academic Analytics or similar research productivity, benchmarking, faculty activity reporting, or research intelligence tools to support strategic decision-making, assessment, and reporting.
• Experience designing and delivering workshops, consultations, or faculty development programming.
• Experience in a research-intensive university environment, particularly at a land-grant, R1, or AAU institution.

Working Conditions / Schedule

• Salary Range: $75,000 - $85,000
• Anticipated Start Date: 2026-11-15
• Anticipated End Date:
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability, protected veteran, and other protected status.
• OSU will conduct a review of the National Sex Offender Public website prior to hire.
• OSU is a fair chance employer committed to inclusive hiring.
• We encourage applications from candidates who bring a wide range of lived experience including involvement with the justice system.
• If this position has “critical or security-sensitive” responsibilities and/or driving duties and you are selected as a finalist, your initial job offer will be contingent upon the results of a job‑related pre‑employment check (such as a background check, motor vehicle history check, sexual misconduct reference check, etc.). Background check results do not automatically disqualify a candidate.
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• Working for Oregon State University is so much more than a job! Oregon State University is a dynamic community of dreamers, doers, problem‑solvers and change‑makers. We don’t wait for challenges to present themselves — we seek them out and take them on.
• We welcome students, faculty and staff from every background and perspective into a community where everyone feels seen and heard. We have deep‑rooted mindfulness for the natural world and all who depend on it, and together, we apply knowledge, tools and skills to build a better future for all.

FACTS:

• Top 1.4% university in the world
• More research funding than all public universities in Oregon combined
• 1 of 3 land, sea, space and sun grant universities in the U.S.
• 2 campuses, 11 colleges, 12 experiment stations, and Extension programs in all 36 counties
• 7 cultural resource centers that offer education, celebration and belonging for everyone
• 100+ undergraduate degree programs, 80+ graduate degrees plus hundreds of minor options and certificates
• 35k+ students including more than 2.3k international students and 10k students of color
• 217k+ alumni worldwide

For more interesting facts about OSU visit: https://oregonstate.edu/about

Locations: Oregon State has a statewide presence with campuses in Corvallis and Bend, the OSU Portland Center and the Hatfield Marine Science Center on the Pacific Coast in Newport. Oregon State’s beautiful, historic and state‑of‑the‑art main campus is located in one of America’s best college towns. Corvallis is located close to the Pacific Ocean, the Cascade mountains and Oregon wine country. Nestled in the heart of the Willamette Valley, this beautiful city offers miles of mountain biking and hiking trails, a river perfect for boating or kayaking and an eclectic downtown featuring local cuisine, popular events and performances.

Total Rewards Package: Oregon State University offers a comprehensive benefits package with benefits eligible positions that is designed to meet the needs of employees and their families including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life
• OSU pays 95% of premiums for you and your eligible dependents.
• Free confidential mental health and emotional support services, and counseling resources.
• Retirement savings paid by the university.
• A generous paid leave package, including holidays, vacation and sick leave.
• Tuition reduction benefits for you or your qualifying dependents at OSU or the additional six Oregon Public Universities.
• Robust Work Life programs including Dual Career assistance resources, flexible work arrangements, a Family Resource Center, Affinity Groups and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Optional lifestyle benefits such as pet, accident, and critical care insurance, giving you peace of mind and the support you need to thrive in all aspects of your life.
• Future and current OSU employees can use the Benefits Calculator to learn more about the full value of the benefits provided at OSU.

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