Full-time Lecturer in Biology
- Employer
- Tufts University
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Date posted
- Sep 2, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Science, Technology & Mathematics, Biology & Life Sciences
- Employment Level
- Non-Tenured Track
- Employment Type
- Full Time
The Department of Biology at Tufts University seeks a full-time faculty member beginning September 1, 2022. The lecturer’s responsibilities will include but not be limited to organizing and teaching the lecture portion of an introductory course (Bio 14 – Organisms and Populations, usual enrollment ~380 students) which is taught as an integrative course, highlighting linkages between evolution, ecology, and physiology. In addition, the successful applicant will teach a course in biostatistics (Biology 132) and either ecology (Biology 142) or a portion of an ecology laboratory course (Bio 51). Responsibilities will also include undergraduate advising and departmental service.
QualificationsQualified candidates must have a Ph.D. and show evidence of successful teaching in introductory and intermediate biology courses. We require experience or invested interest in developing inclusive classroom spaces through equitable mentoring and innovative evidence-based pedagogy that promotes success and career enhancement of underrepresented students in STEM. If desired, the successful candidate will have opportunity to engage in education research in collaboration with the Department of Education at Tufts, or potentially some other area of biological research.
This is an academic year, benefitted, non-tenure-track 2-year position and is renewable contingent upon performance. Lecturers at Tufts University are unionized (https://access.tufts.edu/collective-bargaining-agreements) with the potential for long-term careers with promotional advancement within the Lecturer ranks.
Application InstructionsApplicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, statement of commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ), sample syllabus, teaching evaluations if available, and two letters of recommendation. The DEIJ statement should demonstrate your knowledge of barriers facing under-represented groups in higher education and shed light on your own efforts and future plans to advance DEIJ in the biology curriculum. All application materials must be submitted via interfolio at apply.interfolio.com/91439
Please contact staff assistant to the chair/faculty Geneva Frank at Geneva.Frank@tufts.edu with any questions. Review of applications will begin January 5, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled.
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