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Posted Job Title
Associate Dean for Entrepreneurial Programs
Job Profile Title
Director E, Academic Affairs
Job Description Summary
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Penn Carey Law) is shaping the next era of legal education, and it seeks a senior-level, entrepreneurial leader who will help build that future. Around the world, demand for legal knowledge is growing on multiple fronts. Lawyers need continuing education that keeps pace with a rapidly changing profession, and they look to trusted institutions to build these programs. At the same time, business executives, compliance officers, technologists, and policymakers increasingly need fluency in the law, and they are seeking it in new formats, on new timelines, and from institutions they trust. Penn Carey Law is recruiting a senior leader to design and grow the programs that will serve this expanding global audience, carrying the reach of a world-class legal education far beyond the traditional classroom.
Penn Carey Law has retained Criterion Search Group, Inc., an executive search firm specializing in mission-driven leadership, to conduct this national search. Confidential inquiries should be directed to Criterion Search Group at administrator@criterionsg.com.
The Opportunity:
Penn Carey Law has the faculty depth, the brand, and the programmatic infrastructure to lead in serving the legal education market. It also enters this work at an opportune moment: through Penn Learning for Life, the University is investing in shared capabilities and streamlined support for program design and delivery, and it is building connections across the schools’ pre-college, professional, and executive offerings. This leader will be positioned to draw on that investment and to build collaborations with sister schools across the University, including the Wharton School, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Perelman School of Medicine, whose professional and online education operations are already running at scale. What Penn Carey Law needs now is a builder: someone who will make the most of University resources where they exist and create what the Law School needs where they do not.
The school seeks a senior leader to establish its next major avenue of growth by extending Penn Carey Law’s teaching to professionals, organizations, and learners around the world, beyond the traditional JD pipeline. This leader will take ownership of an existing portfolio: the Master in Law (ML) degree, continuing legal education, a substantial online course catalog, the pre-college summer academy, executive…