Assistant/Associate Collegiate Professor and Assistant Director, Nutrition and Dietetics
About The Position
The Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise (HNFE) invites applications for a calendar-year, non-tenure-track collegiate faculty position at the assistant or associate professor level. Collegiate faculty members have a primary commitment to the department’s instructional mission, including graduate and undergraduate teaching, curricular and program development, innovative and inclusive pedagogy, and supervised experiential learning in professional work settings. The successful candidate will help enhance curricula and promote teaching excellence for the Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics (MSND) program, and will participate in department, college, university, and professional service activities. The anticipated responsibilities are 70% instruction and mentorship, 20% administration as assistant director of the MSND program, 5% pedagogical scholarship, and 5% service. The position includes teaching three to four courses per semester and helping the MSND director with program operations. The successful candidate will also support curricular innovation, teaching-and-learning scholarship, mentorship of students from diverse backgrounds and identities, professional development and scholarly activity, and expanded supervised-practice opportunities for dietetics graduate students.
Requirements
- Doctoral degree in nutrition or a closely related field.
- Registered Dietitian (RD) or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) credential.
- Demonstrated experience in professional practice; examples may include clinical, community, foodservice management, sustainability, extension, agriculture, industry, or education.
- Demonstrated experience instructing a broad scope of nutrition and nutrition-related courses.
- Demonstrated scholarship and/or leadership, such as peer-reviewed publications, professional-meeting presentations, invited presentations, or professional leadership roles.
- Experience in higher-education instructional and pedagogical activities, with strong potential to lead in the instructional mission.
- Excellent communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Two or more years of experience in dietetics practice.
- Experience in online instruction.
- Experience with accredited academic or healthcare programs.
- Demonstrated mentorship of nutrition and dietetics students or other healthcare students.
Responsibilities
- Teach multiple MSND and HNFE courses, typically three to four courses per semester.
- Assist the MSND director with the general operations of the MSND program as assistant director.
- Participate in curricular innovation and transformation.
- Engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning in HNFE.
- Mentor students from diverse backgrounds and identities.
- Continue developing professional capabilities and scholarly activities, including travel to professional conferences.
- Participate in department, college, university, and professional service.
- Enhance supervised-practice and other experiential-learning opportunities for dietetics graduate students.
- Contribute to graduate and undergraduate instruction, curricular and program development, and innovative and inclusive pedagogy.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
