Director of UCLA Writing Programs/Academic Administrator

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Job #JPF10859

• WRITING PROGRAMS / L&S Humanities / UCLA

Position overview Position title: Director of UCLA Writing Programs

Salary range: $131,906-$185,208

Application Window

Open date: March 6, 2026

Next review date: Sunday, Apr 5, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Sunday, Apr 5, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

Position description

UCLA Writing Programs seeks an experienced writing program administrator to lead the unit. We welcome candidates who possess a record of outstanding composition teaching and administrative excellence (multiple direct reports, curricular innovation, faculty development, campus student success initiatives, gift stewardship, fiscal and enrollment management), and who are committed to student success and higher education access. The position is an Academic Administrator with an 11/12 appointment, given that the Writing Programs director carries substantive duties during the summer months related to summer courses, fall enrollments, and course staffing. The director supports and manages personnel actions for Writing Programs? faculty, who come from a range of writing and academic backgrounds.

Employing approximately 40 full-time lecturers (represented non-Senate faculty) and 5-10 teaching assistants (also represented employees), UCLA Writing Programs (https://wp.ucla.edu/) is a vibrant and complex campus unit that offers first-year through advanced writing courses, as well as ESL and TA mentoring and professionalization courses. The Director of Writing Programs shapes the overarching vision, mission, and administration of UCLA Writing Programs and its subsidiary programs and initiatives (i.e., first-year composition, the Professional Writing Minor, the Graduate Certificate in Writing Pedagogy, TA training, writing and oral skills courses for multilingual students and international graduate students, writing placement and international teaching assistant assessment, the Undergraduate Writing Center, summer sessions offerings, outreach to the campus and greater Los Angeles community).

Basic Requirements include:

• A Ph.D. is required by the start date of July 1, 2026

Preferred fields as follows: Rhetoric & Composition, Writing Studies, Applied Linguistics or other discipline relevant to the position

• 5 years? experience and excellence in college-level teaching of required writing courses and/or tutoring of college-level writing, using teaching practices informed by current evidence-based pedagogy and scholarship
• 3 years? leadership and administrative experience related to writing or ESL programs, writing centers, and/or WAC/WID initiatives

Additional Qualifications

• Proven ability to support & promote faculty development among composition and ESL specialist faculty who come from a range of writing and academic backgrounds
• Success in teaching and supporting first-generation undergraduate students, students from groups historically underrepresented in higher education, and multilingual students

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a large public research university
• Experience in writing, language and/or program assessment
• Experience in establishing and assessing learning outcomes
• Knowledge of seminal research and current developments related to writing programs, writing centers, multilingual students, professional writing, and/or WAC/WID initiatives.

Appointment begins on July 1, 2026. To apply, access the recruitment via Recruit (https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10859) . Complete applications should be received by April 5, 2026.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• A Ph.D. is required by the start date of July 1, 2026. The preferred fields are as follows: Rhetoric & Composition, Writing Studies, Applied Linguistics or other discipline relevant to the position.
• 5 years? experience and excellence in college-level teaching of required writing courses and/or tutoring of college-level writing, using teaching practices informed by current evidence-based pedagogy and scholarship
• 3 years? leadership and administrative experience related to writing or ESL programs, writing centers, and/or WAC/WID initiatives

Additional qualifications

• Proven ability to support & promote faculty development among composition and ESL specialist faculty who come from a range of writing and academic backgrounds
• Success in teaching and supporting first-generation undergraduate students, students from groups historically underrepresented in higher education, and multilingual students

Preferred qualifications

• Experience at a large public research university
• Experience in writing, language and/or program assessment
• Experience in establishing and assessing learning outcomes
• Knowledge of seminal research and current developments related to writing programs, writing centers, multilingual students, professional writing, and/or WAC/WID initiatives.

Application Requirements

Document requirements

• Curriculum Vitae - A current CV that includes the courses you've taught and any tutoring experience that you may have.
• Cover Letter - A cover letter that clearly articulates your teaching and leadership experience in writing programs/centers/WAC/WID initiatives.
• UCLA Mission Statement - As the nation's premier public research university, UC's mission is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. We have a particular responsibility to the people of California which we express in the excellence of the education we provide, the impact of the research we do, the comprehensive, life-saving medical services we provide, and the public service mission we are devoted to. The University of California promotes the social mobility of its students, equips them with the tools and experience that furthers their ambitions, and regards their accomplishments across the life span as evidence of the profoundly positive impact of higher education.

The UCLA campus has expressed these goals in its strategic plan as follows:

Deepen our engagement with Los Angeles

Expand our reach as a global university

Enhance our research and creative activities

Elevate how we teach

Become a more effective institution

Prompt for candidates for recruitment:

Reflecting on your personal and professional experiences, highlight your past contributions and future commitments to advancing UCLA's mission as embodied in the 2023-28 strategic plan. These accomplishments and ambitions may be discussed in the context of describing your teaching, scholarship, and service

• Statement of Teaching - A statement of teaching. 1-2 page statement of teaching.

Reference requirements

• 3-4 required (contact information only)

References will be contacted later in the process of this recruitment.

Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10859

Help contact: alizarraga@english.ucla.edu

About UCLA

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

• ?Misconduct? means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.
• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy (https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000385/SVSH)
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Job location

Los Angeles, CA