Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Spanish

Employer: Westmont College
Location: Santa Barbara, California (US)
Salary: $70,540 to $78,847
Date posted: Oct 11, 2024

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Position Type: Faculty Positions, Humanities, Foreign Languages & Literatures
Employment Level: Tenured/Tenured Track
Employment Type: Full Time

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Westmont College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Spanish to begin in August 2025. A Ph.D. is required. Candidates must possess native/near-native fluency in Spanish, demonstrated excellence in teaching and broad training in Spanish language (all levels), and literature and/or linguistics. Ability to teach French or a second language is a plus, as well as interest in leading an established off-campus semester program in Mexico. It is essential that interested candidates possess the ability to teach, advise, and mentor undergraduate students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.

Westmont is a Christian liberal arts college. Candidates must support the character and mission of the college and demonstrate a desire to explore the relationship between their Christian faith and their teaching/scholarship. We seek faculty from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds who are committed to undergraduate teaching, scholarly activity, and the integration of faith. The college seeks to enrich its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, staff, and students. Diverse candidates from historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

Please visit https://www.westmont.edu/office-provost/open-positions for application instructions.

Anticipated Hiring Range: $70,540 to $78,847

The pay range posted for this job opening reflects what Westmont College reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will vary based on relevant factors such as work experience, education, training, skill level, rank, and market conditions.

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Westmont is a national liberal arts college in the evangelical Protestant tradition. We seek faculty invested in undergraduate teaching, a program of scholarly activity, and the mission of liberal arts education, whose work grows out of a vital and informed commitment to the Christian faith. Westmont is an EEO employer, seeking to be diverse in people and programs consistent with its mission. The college seeks to enrich its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff. Women, candidates from historically underrepresented groups, and international scholars are especially encouraged to apply.

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Westmont requires that all full-time faculty indicate full agreement with the Articles of Faith and support the standards enumerated in the statement on Community Life. Applicants will be asked to submit four brief (500 to 1500 words) statements describing their journey as a follower of Christ, their philosophy of Christian liberal arts education, their view of the relationship between their faith and their professional/scholarly work, and the experiences, perspectives, and skills they would bring to support Westmont's commitment to diversity as it reflects Christ's reconciling work in the world.

Westmont College does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, medical condition, religion, marital status, military status, or veteran status.

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