Educational Leadership and Foundations, Full-time Professorial CFS faculty (tenure equivalent)
About The Position
The McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University invites applications for a Continuing Faculty Status track (tenure track equivalent) faculty position in the department of Educational Leadership and Foundations (EDLF) beginning August 1, 2027. Starting rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Our mission is to expand education vision and empower educational leaders to improve practices, policies, and systems that create high-quality and equitable learning environments, by developing students' knowledge, skills, and dispositions in a faith-based, intellectually rigorous, and inspiring learning environment, collaborating with and supporting current educational leaders, and producing high-quality scholarship by study and by faith. The EDLF Department offers the following degree programs: MEd in School Leadership EdD in Educational Leadership PhD in Educational Inquiry, Measurement, and Evaluation This position will potentially teach and mentor students in all three programs. As a professorial faculty position, this position will have a 2-2-1 teaching load (or equivalent negotiated 15-credit teaching load), have an expectation to maintain a strong research agenda, and mentor master's and doctoral level students on theses and dissertations.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Educational Leadership or a related field (must be completed by the start date)
- Demonstrated excellence or clear potential in teaching graduate-level courses in educational leadership content areas
- Strong record or clear potential for high-quality research in school leadership
- Demonstrated excellence or clear potential in mentoring and advising graduate students on evaluation and/or research projects
Nice To Haves
- Experience working as a school leader, school teacher, or university administrator or in educational policy settings
- Deep methodological expertise in specialized quantitative or qualitative methods
- Deep understanding and ability to teach educational foundations (e.g., philosophy of education, ethics, multiculturalism, equitable education)
Responsibilities
- Teach courses in school leadership and/or education research and related topics at the graduate (masters and doctoral) level, with the possibility of some undergraduate teaching
- Mentor doctoral students in research
- Advise doctoral degree candidates
- Engage in high levels of research activity and publication
- Demonstrate a pattern of leadership at the department, school, and university levels
- Fulfill committee assignments and other citizenship activities inside the university, community, and profession
Benefits
- Starting rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
