Professor, Creative Business Leadership

Our graduates are empowered to be proactive and pragmatic leaders, as well as exceptional designers of innovative business models and strategies that revolutionize the creative sector. As a full-time professor, you will inspire students to build and lead the enterprises and firms that advance the future of arts, culture, entertainment, technology, and design. You will also help advance students’ knowledge in strategic thinking, data-driven analysis, complex business concepts, innovative customer value generation, financial planning and management, and the design of agile business strategies.

This is your chance to work with remarkable students and faculty in a vibrant and entrepreneurial workplace woven throughout the historic district of Savannah, Ga. - a walkable, bikeable coastal city named one of TIME magazine’s “World’s 100 Greatest Places of 2021.” Savannah’s inviting climate and a culturally rich downtown provide a living laboratory for the study of art and design and a richly layered learning environment in which students, faculty, and staff flourish.

Minimum Qualifications:
  • M.B.A. in a closely related discipline
  • Professional experience in relevant fields

Preferred Qualifications: Experience teaching at the collegiate level

Certificates, licenses, and registrations: Academic and professional credentials to teach in a certain discipline

Work Hours:As noted in the Employment Agreement

ADA Tag:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Duties and responsibilities
  • SCAD prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment. In and out of the classroom, the professor is required to work toward the achievement of this mission. The professor is required to fulfill teaching assignments as determined by contact hours and as outlined in the Employment Agreement. The professor is required to meet teaching responsibilities and expectations as outlined in the SCAD Faculty Handbook.
  • For example: • planning and preparation for teaching; • maintaining an active and engaged classroom environment; • syllabus design, submission, and approval; • holding office hours and midterm grade reviews to provide feedback to students; • being available to students outside of regular class hours through extra help sessions, extended learning opportunities, and study (field) trips; • conducting course- and program-level assessment.
  • The professor is required to meet professional responsibilities and expectations as outlined in the SCAD Faculty Handbook.
  • For example: • modeling professionalism; • fulfilling grading and academic documentation requirements; • recording attendance; • following academic policies and regulations; • supporting academic assessment and institutional effectiveness efforts. The professor must be available to attend on-ground and virtual events upon request or as required, to support the academic department and the university. This participation might include: • faculty councils, • admission events, • curriculum assessment and development, • institutional effectiveness and accreditation support, • events, exhibitions or other publicity assignments. The professor must comply with all university policies. - (Essential)


Minimum Qualifications:

• Terminal degree (or equivalent) in the discipline or in a relevant field.
• Academic and professional credentials to teach in a certain discipline.
• Teaching experience at the collegiate level preferred.
• Experience in or knowledge of related professions.

Certificates, licenses and registrations:

Work Hours:As noted in the Employment Agreement.

ADA Tag: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Special instructions to applicants: