Assistant/Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Nutrition

University of Florida•Gainesville, FL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) at the University of Florida, in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, is seeking applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. This role will focus on developing a collaborative, externally funded, and internationally engaged research program centered on maternal and child nutrition, with a specific emphasis on improving health and developmental outcomes for women, infants, and young children in global and underserved settings. This is a 9-month, tenure-accruing position with a 70% research and 30% teaching assignment, based in Gainesville, FL. The faculty member will be expected to actively seek contract and grant funding to support their program. The position is part of a new initiative to seed a nexus in global health nutrition and food security between IFAS and the One Health Center of Excellence within the College of Public Health and Health Professions. The successful candidate will collaborate with faculty across the department and university, contributing to existing expertise in maternal and child nutrition, community and public health nutrition, nutritional sciences, food systems, food safety, food processing, and global nutrition.

Requirements

Hold a doctoral degree, or a foreign equivalent, in nutrition, public health nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, community nutrition, global health, epidemiology, public health, or a closely related field by the position’s start date.
Demonstrate the ability to develop a research program involving human populations.
Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations.
Demonstrate a commitment to excellence in scholarship, teaching, and student mentoring.
Applicants at the Assistant Professor level must show strong potential to secure external research funding and develop an independent research program.
Applicants at the Associate Professor level must demonstrate an established record of scholarly productivity, external funding, student mentorship, and teaching appropriate to rank.
Be supportive of the mission of the Land-Grant system.
Have a commitment to UF core values.
Be eligible to work in the US.

Nice To Haves

Experience conducting nutrition or public health research in low- and middle-income countries or other resource-constrained settings.
Experience in designing and implementing human nutrition interventions, community-based trials, randomized controlled trials, or longitudinal studies involving women, infants, children, families, or communities.
Experience conducting community-engaged, implementation, translational, or population-based nutrition research.
Experience working with international universities, governments, nongovernmental organizations, community organizations, or other local partners.
Experience using dietary assessment methods, nutritional biomarkers, anthropometric measurements, developmental or health outcomes, or food-security indicators.
Experience applying quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches, including nutritional epidemiology, meta-analysis, population-level modeling, data integration, or implementation evaluation.
Experience managing research activities across international sites, including ethical review, participant recruitment, research staff training, data quality assurance, and culturally appropriate community engagement.
Experience developing externally funded, interdisciplinary research programs addressing maternal and child nutrition, global health, or food and nutrition security.

Responsibilities

Develop a collaborative, externally funded, and internationally engaged research program focused on maternal and child nutrition.
Conduct research and integrative studies in global nutrition and health, public health nutrition, food and nutrition security, and maternal and child health.
Use interdisciplinary, systems-based, and population-level approaches in research.
Integrate primary data collection, epidemiology, intervention research, implementation science, dietary assessment, nutritional biomarkers, data science, and predictive modeling into research.
Engage in teaching responsibilities, including undergraduate and/or graduate courses.
Mentor undergraduate and graduate students.
Contribute to courses in nutrition, public health, global health, and food systems.
Engage in scholarly activities related to instruction, such as advising students, participating in curriculum revision, seeking funding for teaching programs, supervising research, publishing teaching-related scholarship, producing learning tools, and engaging in professional development related to teaching and advising.
Support and participate in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honors Program, distance and international education.
Be supportive of and engaged in all three mission areas of the Land-Grant system: Research, Teaching, and Extension.
Seek contract and grant funding actively to support their program.