Dean Ballas

Fulfill a design-for-good social mission—lead the creation and advancement of health equity to achieve health justice through emotive, engaging, and empowering visual communications.

Develop, integrate, and maintain comprehensive institution-wide brand and visual communication strategies across all university and health system touchpoints that reinforce, enhance, and further strengthen the MSM brand.

A community-focused design philosophy is an integral component of SCAD's heart and creative spirit. Shape a clear vision, champion, and cultivate a design for good culture through every SCAD touchpoint. Lead all aspects of SCAD SERVE, the university's social impact design studio, and unleash the ingenuity, academic resources, and creative brilliance of the SCAD community to address food insecurity, homelessness, clothing shortages, and environmental sustainability through meaningful design solutions that improve quality of life. Deliver at both strategic and tactical levels—conceptualize and offer a hands-on approach while implementing university-wide transformative community-focused design for good initiatives. Educate internal and external affiliates to ensure the SCAD community remains true to our design for good brand approach and values.

Provide vision and leadership that align with SCAD initiatives with a particular focus on communication arts (advertising, branding, graphic design, illustration, photography, and sequential art) and fine arts (painting, sculpture, and printmaking). Prepare and revise academic program plans, initiate academic integrity and quality, establish academic goals, promote and serve as a model for teaching achievement, advocate on behalf of student and faculty interests, and act as a liaison between students, faculty, and administration.

Guide partners and client service pursuit teams through the development of strategic communications for Deloitte’s most complex pursuits. Facilitate the concept, design and development of client proposals, presentations and related business development materials that distinguish Deloitte in the marketplace. Innovative solutions ensure visual storytelling reaffirms Deloitte’s visual identity and brand messaging.

Head of design and computer technology team. Accountable for: establishing/maintaining the creative philosophy, brand development, and all aspects of design/promotion reaching from traditional print and responsive web-based to social media and environmental solutions.