Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry
About The Position
The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech invites applications for a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry. Collegiate professors are full members of the faculty with responsibilities focused on teaching. The successful candidate will join Virginia's only four-year Society of American Foresters-accredited forestry program and will have a visible, student-facing role in sustaining core forestry instruction, field-based education, professional preparation, and workforce connections. The ideal candidate will possess 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 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.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.
- Must 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
- Carry approximately a 3:3 teaching load, with consideration for the additional time demands of field laboratory courses.
- Teach specific courses such as 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, and FREC 4714 Harvesting Systems Evaluation, depending on program needs and candidate expertise.
- Potentially contribute to a first-year experience course, forestry courses for non-majors, a forestry capstone course, or study-abroad experiences within the teaching workload.
- Support pedagogical or disciplinary scholarship and collaborative research (approximately 5-10% of effort).
- Contribute to curriculum development and revision.
- Engage in student mentoring.
- Facilitate experiential learning.
- Engage with forestry employers and stakeholders.
- Participate in Forestry Extension activities (possible but not required).
Benefits
- Full members of the faculty
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
