The Department of Social Work at Utah State University (USU) invites applications for a tenure-track, nine-month, appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. Located at the USU flagship campus in Logan, Utah, this position is part of department, college, and university wide clusters of searches designed to foster interdisciplinary scholarship and creative activity, and to increase curricular and research coverage of areas that reinforce USU’s institutional priorities around justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Department of Social Work at USU actively pursues social justice and empowerment for all, and especially historically marginalized groups and individuals, through education, research, and community engagement. Thus, the Department of Social Work seeks to hire an individual whose research uses a social justice lens to study one or more of the below areas: culturally-responsive practice, substance use and misuse, criminal justice, rural social work practice, or other areas of expertise that further the USU land grant mission.
This appointment, in the USU Department of Social Work, has a start date of August 1, 2024. This tenure-track position has a role assignment of 50% research, 40% teaching, and 10% service.
The candidate will be expected to 1) teach graduate and undergraduate social work courses linked to the requested areas of expertise and to departmental needs; 2) mentor undergraduate and graduate students in research; 3) engage in individual and collaborative research and scholarship; 4) secure external funding to support research activities; and 5) provide service to the department, college, and the social work profession.
Minimum Qualifications: Candidates should have 1) an MSW from a CSWE-accredited social work program; 2) two years post-MSW practice experience; and 3) a PhD in social work or closely-related field at the time of appointment.
Preferred Qualifications: The department desires a candidate who has 1) teaching experience at undergraduate and graduate levels; 2) teaching experience with online and distance education technology; 3) demonstrated record of scholarly activity; 4) demonstrated capacity for securing external funding; and 5) expertise in advanced generalist social work practice, particularly in the areas of culturally-responsive practice with a focus in substance use and misuse, criminal justice, or other areas of expertise that further the USU land grant mission.
Please contact the search chair, Dr. Derrik Tollefson (derrik.tollefson@usu.edu) with any other communication regarding this position.
Your online application will include:
Documents #2-5 will be uploaded in the section "Other Documents 1-10"
Review of applications will begin October 18, 2023 and continue until the position is filled.
**Document size may not exceed 10 MB.**
Employees typically work indoors and are protected from weather and/or contaminants, but not, necessarily, occasional temperature changes.
The Department of Social Work offers CSWE-accredited bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a dynamic interdisciplinary college. Please visit www.usu.edu for more information about the University, College, and Department.
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