Faculty Talent Manager: Tickle College of Engineering - UTK

The Faculty Talent Manager in the Tickle College of Engineering is responsible for developing and maintaining comprehensive faculty talent management programs. This position drives faculty recruitment and retention efforts, external awards nominations, professional development, and compensation strategies.

Reporting to the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, the Faculty Talent Manager will develop strategies to attract, retain, and develop faculty talent within the Tickle College of Engineering. This role leads initiatives and creates the program for faculty professional development, oversees compensation structures and strategies, coordinates faculty external award nominations, and supports recruitment processes.

• Faculty Recruitment: Develop and implement strategies for attracting top-tier faculty candidates. Collaborate with departments to ensure alignment with institutional goals.
• Retention Initiatives: Design programs and initiatives aimed at retaining high-performing faculty members. Provide resources for career advancement and professional development. Utilize data-driven approaches to assess faculty needs and measure the effectiveness of talent management strategies.
• Professional Development: Organize workshops, seminars, and training sessions to support faculty growth in areas such as pedagogy, career planning, student mentorship, networking and collaboration, project management, and leadership skills.
• Compensation and Awards: Utilize data-driven approaches to assess compensation through including but not limited to compiling data on startup funds, curating salary surveys, developing/refining an award program, and retention strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in any field.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years combined experience in higher education, program development, program management, program analytics, and/or HR talent management.
• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: Ability to use databases and analytical tools. Skill in presenting data graphically. Proficiency in computer-based and online search tools to conduct effective searches for desired information. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Master’s degree in Human Resources or Higher Education Administration.
• Experience: 5 years working directly with higher education faculty on professional development.
• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:  Knowledge of methods of teaching in higher education and assessment of faculty teaching effectiveness. Knowledge of metrics used to evaluate faculty performance. Ability to use databases of faculty information to analyze faculty performance metrics. Ability to use on-line search tools and software to identify high performing faculty across the US. Knowledge of higher education faculty and compensation processes.

Work Location

• Location: Knoxville, TN
• Onsite

Compensation and Benefits 

• UT market range: MR09
• Anticipated hiring range: $65,000 - $70,000
• Find more information on the UT Market Range structure here
• Find more information on UT Benefits here

Application Instructions 

To express interest, please submit an application with the noted below attachments:

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• List of 3 Professional References

About The College

The Tickle College of Engineering is in the midst of an unprecedented period of growth and success including adding over 30 new faculty as part of ambitious cluster hiring campaigns led by Chancellor Donde Plowman and Dean Matthew Mench. Since 2021, the college has set records in research expenditures, enrollment, incoming student GPA, intellectual property development, and USNWR rank. New facilities include the state-of-the art Zeanah Engineering Complex, the University of Tennessee Manufacturing and Design Enterprise (TN-MADE) facility, and the Innovation South building which houses UTK’s Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility (FCMF). TCE currently has 208 Tenure/Tenure Track and 65 Non-Tenure Track faculty in its nine academic departments and offers 13 undergraduate, 16 MS, and 15 PhD degree programs. Affiliated with TCE and located in Tullahoma, Tennessee, the UT Space Institute is a hub of aerospace and defense research. The college is also home to eight research centers and three interdisciplinary institutes. With approximately 4,300 undergraduate and 1,500 graduate students, the college sits 29th among public universities in the most recent U.S. News and World Report graduate rankings. Faculty in the college have won 29 early career awards (NSF, DoE, DARPA, AFOSR, and ARO) since 2016. In FY24, the college had NSF HERD research expenditures of $121 million.