Director of Inclusive Teaching and Pedagogical Effectiveness

Position Specific Responsibilities/Accountabilities

Academic Affairs is expanding its pedagogical formation offerings (e.g. pedagogical intensives for all new faculty) and deepening existing commitments to teaching excellence (e.g. reimagining the assessment of teaching).As such this role will work under the guidance of the Associate Provost for Faculty Excellence and Mission Integration to:

• Collaborate with the Center for Faculty Development Office for Mission Engagement and Academic Affairs partners to ensure shared ownership and sustainability of faculty development and formation efforts learning communities institutes and retreats in support of teacher-scholar formation and Ignatian educational frameworks.

• Provide strategic coordination to ensure coherence alignment and momentum in teaching-related initiatives across Academic Affairs.

• Synthesize faculty-led work assessment findings and programmatic insights into clear documentation that supports institutional learning decision-making and mission alignment.

• Convene and facilitate collaborative processes that enable faculty chairs and academic leaders to engage in reflective mission-centered decision-making.

• Support follow-through on faculty- and leadership-endorsed initiatives by tracking implementation monitoring progress and closing feedback loops.

• Serve as a member of the Mission Integration team ensuring coordination and alignment of programs/initiatives with Mission Integration efforts across campus.

Critical & JusticeOriented Pedagogies

• Partner with faculty and staff subjectmatter experts to codesign adapt and refine faculty development experiences that align disciplinary expertise with Ignatian pedagogy inclusive and justiceoriented teaching practices and to facilitate engagement with multiple interpretations of accessibility including disability justice and universal design and pedagogical flexibility.

• Accompany academic departments and programs in translating inclusive and justice-oriented pedagogical commitments into curricular assessment and course-design practices that can be adapted within disciplinary contexts.

• Draw on substantial undergraduate teaching experience to serve as a thought partner in course (re)design pedagogical experimentation and reflective teaching practice.

• Support engagement with pedagogical wellness leveraging evidence-based practices from various domains to promote the success and wellbeing of students and educators.

Pedagogical Effectiveness

• Support the implementation of faculty-led teaching assessment recommendations into sustainable practices tools and supports that emphasize self-reflection formative feedback holistic review and alignment with LMUs mission and values. Monitor implementation progress and identify gaps risks or unintended consequences.

• Support individual faculty faculty leaders and faculty committees in translating equity-centered and missiondriven pedagogical commitments into concrete classroom practices across disciplines and career stages and in the formative evaluation of effective teaching.

• Coordinate the development and maintenance of structured templates and guidance for faculty self-reflection on teaching (e.g. for FSR retention tenure and promotion) and common peer observation tool aligned with course development and design learning culture and environment pedagogical strategies lifelong learning and improvement as a teacher.

Scholarship of Teaching and Institutional Impact

• Collaborate with departments and programs on assessment and reflection processes that support examination of student learning student experience learning outcomes and inclusive excellence goals and use those findings to guide programmatic improvement.

• Coordinate periodic review of the teaching assessment framework itself gathering feedback from faculty chairs and reviewers about clarity workload and impact.

• Document and assess the impact of faculty development and formation initiatives across Academic Affairs as an expression of LMUs Jesuit and Marymount mission supporting faculty flourishing transformative teaching and learning and institutional learning.

• Draw on national models and resources for teaching and learning to inform local practice while remaining responsive to LMUs context and culture.

Loyola Marymount University Expectations

Exhibit behavior that supports the mission vision and values of the university. Communicate and employ interpersonal actions that model high standards of professional responsible accountable and ethical conduct. Demonstrate a commitment to outstanding customer service.

Requisite Qualifications

• Typically a Masters degree in a related field and a record of scholarly achievementor equivalent experience. Incumbent will be expected to continue upgrading knowledge skills and abilities needed to keep abreast of regulation/policy changes.

• Advanced graduate degree from an accredited institution (masters required doctorate preferred).

• Demonstrated experience teaching undergraduate students (minimum of 3 years) with evidence of inclusive teaching practice and familiarity with access pedagogy and inclusive course design feminist and liberatory pedagogies and/or equitycentered assessment.

• Familiarity with Ignatian pedagogy and Jesuit Marymount educational traditions.

• Demonstrated experience in faculty development with the ability to help faculty translate inclusive and justiceoriented pedagogical commitments into concrete course design assignment design and assessment practices.

• Strong facilitation skills and experience working across disciplines identities and pedagogical traditions.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of this position.

Application materials should be submitted as PDFs uploaded via LMUs Employment portal no later than May 17 2026.

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Salary range

Please note that this position may not be eligible for visa sponsorship now or in the future.