The Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University is hiring a Programs and Operations Manager which will include many project-management-like responsibilities ! This is a 12-month, full-time, permanent, on-site professional faculty position (more details below and linked-to). Review Date is May 26th. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to lead the operations and programming of a mission-driven center at a large R2 university. Furious Flower has strong partnerships with JMU Libraries and their collections are housed in JMU Libraries Special Collections, so library / archives experience is a plus!
Galen
See Programs and Operations Manager - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
The Programs and Operations Manager at the Furious Flower Poetry Center is a 12-month, AP Faculty Position that reports directly to the Center's Executive Director. The Programs and Operations Manager supports the Executive Director's vision and strategic plan with internal and external stakeholders, manages and executes a vision-aligned portfolio of programs and events designed to engage the Centers' stakeholders; researches, secures, and manages appropriate grants in support of the Center's needs, produces content and conceptualizes campaigns for the effective marketing and promotion of Center activities, and oversees the day-to-day running of the Center.
About Furious Flower: Located at James Madison University and housed in the College of Arts and Letters, Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation's first academic center for Black poetry. Conceptualized by Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin in 1994, for more than 25 years, Furious Flower has reached thousands of poets, educators, students, and poetry lovers through its decade-defining conferences, groundbreaking media and anthologies, workshops, reading series, and seminars. Under the current leadership of Executive Director, Lauren K. Alleyne, Furious Flower continues to impact literary communities on local, regional national and international levels, creating platforms for Black poets to engage new audiences, and for all audiences to experience Black literary culture.
This is an on-campus position; remote work is not available for this role.
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Galen Talis
Professor & Librarian
James Madison University
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