Assistant Professor - Sport Administration

UNC-Chapel Hill • Chapel Hill, NC

36d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a 9-month tenure track Assistant Professor faculty position to deepen and expand research and teaching in Sport Administration. We aspire to recruit a faculty colleague who will engage in innovative and impactful scholarship that will diversify and enhance our research, teaching, and public outreach missions, and who can translate this research to teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in sport law and other sport administration courses.

Requirements

• A juris doctorate (preferred)
• Collegiate level teaching experience in sport law is preferred.
• Experience working within the sport industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish a focused line of research, publish articles in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals at a rate commensurate with an R1 institution, and seek intramural/extramural funding to support research.
• Teach graduate and/or undergraduate courses (2/1 load) in sport administration including sport law and at least one other core undergraduate curriculum course (sport administration, sport economics/finance, sport marketing, sport facility and event management, sport revenue generation) or at least one graduate-level course ( NCAA governance and compliance, legal issues in college athletics, intercollegiate athletics administration, marketing college sport, college facility and event management, economics and finance in college athletics, research methods, and statistics).
• Serve as a research advisor / thesis committee member for undergraduate and master’s students in sport administration.
• Participate in departmental and university service and governance functions.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the department chair.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree