Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry
About The Position
The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation invites applications for Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry. At Virginia Tech, Collegiate professors are full members of the faculty whose responsibilities are focused on teaching. The successful candidate will join Virginia’s only four-year Society of American Foresters-accredited forestry program and will play a highly visible, student-facing role in sustaining core forestry instruction, field-based education, professional preparation, and workforce connections. We seek an educator with broad forestry expertise, a strong background in forest operations, and the ability to connect classroom and field laboratory instruction with contemporary forestry practices and employer expectations.
Requirements
- Doctorate by time of appointment in forestry, natural resources, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated professional or academic expertise sufficient to teach the above-listed courses, with emphasis on forest operations courses.
- Demonstrated commitment to deliver high-quality, field-based and experiential undergraduate education.
- Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.
- The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.
Nice To Haves
- Professional forestry credentials
- Operational experience, or substantial engagement with forest industry, agencies, consulting, or land management organizations.
- Experience as instructor of record for undergraduate field or laboratory courses.
Responsibilities
- Approximately a 3:3 teaching load, with appropriate consideration of the additional time demands of field laboratory courses.
- Teaching assignments may include FREC 2214 Introduction to Land and Field Measurements, FREC 3714 Forest Harvesting, FREC 3724 Forest Boundaries and Roads, FREC 3734 Forest Fiber Supply, FREC 4004 Professional Skills in Natural Resources, FREC 4714 Harvesting Systems Evaluation.
- May contribute to a first-year experience course, forestry courses for non-majors, a forestry capstone course, or study-abroad experiences.
- Approximately 5–10% of effort may support pedagogical or disciplinary scholarship and collaborative research.
- Contribute to curriculum development and revision.
- Student mentoring.
- Experiential learning.
- Engagement with forestry employers and stakeholders.
- Participation in Forestry Extension activities is possible but not required.
Benefits
- Endorses and encourages participation in professional development opportunities and university shared governance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
