Adjunct Professor and Faculty Director, CASE

Position Description

The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University invites applications for the position of Adjunct Professor and Faculty Director of its Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE).

CASE is a research and education center based at Fuqua. CASE, and its CASE Initiative on Impact Investing (CASE i3), prepares leaders and organizations with the business skills needed to achieve lasting social change.

The Faculty Director role is a critical position that includes being the primary instructor for CASE curricular offerings at Fuqua, Center leadership, student engagement, and external engagement/field-building. The role is full-time and in-person in Durham, NC.

REPRESENTATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Faculty and Teaching Leadership:

• Help shape Fuqua’s curriculum and faculty engagement in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and business as a force for good.
• Teach a portfolio of MBA courses including lecture-based and experiential learning offerings. Exact portfolio will be determined based on candidate’s experience, however, will draw from the following existing classes: Impact Investing; Social Entrepreneurship; CASE i3CP Consulting Practicum; Fuqua Sustainable Impact Student Investment Fund; Social Venture Capital.

Center Leadership:

• Identify emerging issues and opportunities in social impact and partner with CASE Executive Director to set the strategic direction for the Center maintaining CASE’s distinctive position at the intersection of education, research, and practice.
• Support a collaborative culture and develop capabilities of staff and other contributors.

Student Engagement:

• Provide faculty leadership for CASE co-curriculars, working with CASE staff to ensure MBA students have opportunities to deepen impact skills as a complement to courses. Current examples include CASE and CASE i3 Fellowships, Fuqua Impact Scholarship, and other non-credit events and initiatives.
• Mentor students interested in impact investing, social entrepreneurship, and corporate impact to provide advice and support on their academic and career journeys.

External Engagement and Field Building:

• Work with CASE leadership to fundraise, which can include serving as Principal investigator for and managing Duke Sponsored Research projects, leading executive education partnerships inside or outside of Duke, or other funded work.
• Maintain strong connections to the social impact and impact investing ecosystems, including acting as a field leader. Translate developments in the field into research, writing, programming, partnerships, and career opportunities for students.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
The strongest candidate would ideally bring a combination of:

• Significant knowledge of impact investing, social entrepreneurship, business for good, or adjacent fields from a practitioner’s and/or academic’s perspective.
• Prior MBA-level teaching experience.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to engage with both scholarship and practice.
• Credibility with practitioners, funders, investors, faculty, students, and alumni.
• Strong relationship-building and convening skills.
• Experience working collaboratively across organizational boundaries.
• Strategic judgment about what to preserve, what to evolve, and what to stop and the ability to translate ideas into programs and partnerships.
• Comfort operating in an academic environment without being constrained by purely academic ways of working.

Candidates should hold an advanced degree and/or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

Applicants should submit their materials electronically at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33409

The deadline for applications is December 4, 2026.

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