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Postdoctoral Teaching Associate

Employer
Northeastern University
Location
Massachusetts, United States
Salary
Salary Not specified
Date posted
Apr 14, 2021

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Position Type
Faculty Positions, Humanities, Other Humanities
Employment Level
Post-Doc
Employment Type
Full Time


Postdoctoral Teaching Associate

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
The Writing Program at Northeastern University, housed in the College of Social Science and Humanities and the English Department, is accepting applications from candidates holding a PhD to teach first-year and advanced writing, in both face-to-face and online modalities. This position is based in Boston. This is a benefits-eligible, nine-month 2021-22 academic-year appointment that carries with it a 3/3 teaching assignment and expectation of service and professional development. The appointment may be renewable. Applicants must have the PhD in hand at time of hire. Candidates may be eligible for hire as part-time lecturers for summer 2022 courses on a per-course basis

Responsibilities:
Postdoctoral Teaching Associates will join a Writing Program that is staffed by a mix of full-time Teaching Professors, PhD students, part-time lecturers, and tenure-stream faculty and was named a Conference on College Composition and Communication Writing Program of Excellence in 2015. Writing Program classes consist of First-Year Writing, including sections for multilingual writers, and discipline-specific advanced writing courses, including sections for business, health care, social sciences, and STEM. Teaching Associates will participate in faculty development opportunities, including program-wide workshops, peer-to-peer observations, teaching networks, topic-specific training, and mentoring. Candidates should have demonstrated commitment to fostering diverse and inclusive environments as well as to promoting experiential learning, which are central to a Northeastern University education.

Qualifications:
  • PhD in Rhetoric and Composition or related field. Applicants from STEM and social science fields who have experience teaching disciplinary communication will also be considered.
  • Evidence of commitment to writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines (WAC/WID) scholarship and pedagogies.



Preferred Qualifications:

  • Teaching experience in multiple levels of university writing courses.
  • Experience performing service at the department, college, and university level.
  • Experience in linking university to the surrounding community.
  • Knowledge of instructional technologies and the pedagogical and assessment practices those technologies support.
  • Experience teaching synchronously and/or asynchronously in online formats.
  • Experience working with a diverse student population


Salary Grade:
FAC

Additional Information:
The College of Social Sciences and Humanities is a leader in the Experiential Liberal Arts (www.northeastern.edu/cssh/about/deans-welcome). Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a dynamic and highly selective urban research university in the center of Boston. Grounded in its signature co-op program, Northeastern provides unprecedented global experiential learning opportunities. The College is strongly committed to fostering excellence through diversity and enthusiastically welcomes nominations and applications from members of groups that have been, and continue to be, underrepresented in academia.

Applicants should submit a CV and letter of interest stating their commitments to fostering diverse and inclusive classrooms, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a sample syllabus, along with the names of and contact information for three references. Candidates will be notified before their references are contacted.

To apply, please go to http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/faculty-positions and click on the link for full-time positions or full-time interdisciplinary positions or if viewing this description on the Northeastern University website, click “Apply to this job.” Review of applications will begin immediately. Applications received by May 31, 2021 will be assured fullest consideration.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


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