Instructor, Accounting

Company Description:

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of nearly 3,500 students and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in The Princeton Review's Best 385 Colleges, is one of the top 20 Southern regional universities in U.S. News and World Report's 2019 college rankings and is a top university in Forbes' list of America's best colleges. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world. Beginning in Fall 2020, Bellarmine's 22 athletic teams will compete in NCAA Division I, through an invitation from the ASUN Conference.

Bellarmine is located on a scenic 145-acre campus in the Highlands neighborhood and 46+ acres off-campus in Louisville, KY, which Forbes recently recognized as a "Top 15 City" for affordable living and National Geographic calls one of the "Best Small Cities in the U.S." Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population.

Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply.

Bellarmine is committed to core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Bellarmine will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of its increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential.

Job Description:

The W. Fielding Rubel School of Business at Bellarmine University invites applications for a position in the Department of Accounting: Instructor of Accounting. The Rubel School of Business is accredited by AACSB.

The position will primarily teach Principles of Financial Accounting and/or Principles of Managerial Accounting courses.  Additional courses will depend on the experience and expertise of the instructor. We seek an individual who is student-centered and enjoys teaching, advising, and mentoring, as well as interested in working with the student accounting organization, Bellarmine University Accounting Association.  In alignment with Bellarmine University's commitment to equity and inclusion, we seek an individual dedicated to and invested in equity and inclusiveness.

Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Accounting, Masters Degree with an Emphasis in Accounting, or a Masters of Taxation (with an undergraduate accounting degree). Graduate coursework must include at least eighteen (18) graduate accounting credits. A completed PhD. in Accounting also meets the requirements and PhD candidates at the ABD stage will be considered.
• Public and/or corporate experience
• CPA certification

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to teach upper division accounting coursework in any of the following areas is desirable:  Financial, Cost, Tax, and/or Systems.

Additional Information:

Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

Application Instructions:

Please submit a letter of interest, current curriculum vita, copies of unofficial graduate transcripts, statements of teaching philosophy and research and service interests; and contact information for three professional references. Review of applications will commence immediately and continue until the position is filled.

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