Assistant Director of Creative Technologies+Scholarship

Oregon State University-Cascades is seeking an Assistant Director of Creative Technologies and Scholarship.

This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position.
This position is located in Bend, Oregon.

Recommended Full-Time Salary:
$95,000 – $105,000

POSITION SUMMARY

The Assistant Director of Creative Technologies and Scholarship is broadly responsible for cultivating an inclusive, cross-disciplinary environment that serves students, faculty and staff across all OSU-Cascades programs. This role leads teaching and training to ensure safe and effective use of creative technologies within our campus’s STEAM-aligned classrooms, shops, and studios.

The Assistant Director actively builds and maintains partnerships both across the OSU-Cascades campus and externally, including collaborations with private-sector partners, community organizations, small shops, nonprofits, and other creative or technical groups, expanding the relevance and visibility of the maker and fabrication environments.

The position also collaborates closely with the OSU-Cascades research community, providing fabrication, prototyping, and conceptual support to research efforts. This may include traditional precision machining or low-tech fabrication support that helps engineering and non-engineering researchers alike, including Honors College students, feel welcomed, empowered, and supported in their research pathways.

The Assistant Director oversees lab technical staff, facilities management for machining, maker, and research spaces, and associated budget activities. The role will provide strategic and operational leadership for these spaces, and the services they provide as a defined program within OSU‑Cascades, translating campus and college priorities into short‑ and long‑term operational goals for facilities, staffing, training, and research support. In this capacity, the Assistant Director serves as the operational owner of a defined, campus‑wide creative technologies and research support program delivered through multiple shared facilities. The role has end‑to‑end responsibility for the integrated operation of these services, including facilities oversight, access models, staffing, training standards, budgeting, and external engagement, ensuring the spaces function collectively as a cohesive program serving instructional, research, and service needs across OSU‑Cascades.

The Assistant Director supervises staff supporting program operations, including classified and student employees, ensuring staffing levels, training, and scheduling are aligned with instructional, research, and service demands.

Minimum/Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a field related to engineering, manufacturing, industrial technology, applied sciences, creative technologies, or a closely related STEAM discipline; or an equivalent combination of education and experience demonstrating competency in fabrication, maker-space operations, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Demonstrated experience working in maker spaces, fabrication labs, or creative technology environments with a broad set of users.
• Demonstrated track record of cross-disciplinary engagement, supporting users from varied fields (e.g. Arts, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Design, Humanities)
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience fostering inclusive learning and working environments in hands‑on, technical, or creative settings.

This position is designated as a critical or security-sensitive position; therefore, the incumbent must successfully complete a criminal history check and be determined to be position qualified as per OSU Standard 576-055-0000 et seq. Incumbents are required to self-report convictions and those in youth programs may have additional criminal history checks every 24 months.

Preferred (Special) Qualifications

• Experience working in an Academic STEAM Ecosystem
• Experience building and sustaining external partnerships (e.g., industry, community organizations, nonprofits, small shops, or outdoor‑industry brands).
• Experience supporting research fabrication, prototyping, or laboratory work across multiple disciplines.
• Experience supervising students or staff in a learning‑focused, inclusive environment.
• Experience with facilities and/or lab management in machining, fabrication, or creative‑technology spaces.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering welcoming environments for novice learnings and non-technical users.

How to Apply

Detailed Position Duties and Link to Apply:
https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/18…↗↗