Faculty Position #4079

Assistant/Associate Professor, Career & Workforce Education

Department of Adult, Career & Higher Education

Effective August 7, 2010

The Department of Adult, Career & Higher Education at the University of South Florida is seeking a scholar/educator in career and workforce education for appointment to a 9-month tenure track position effective August 7, 2010. 

The Department of Adult, Career and Higher Education offers graduate programs in Adult education, Career and Workforce Education, and Higher Education. For more information about the department, visit our website at http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/departments/ache/ache.html. The Career and Workforce Education program seeks to understand and enhance the educational, organizational, economic, and social interplay of education-to-work factors and conditions affecting human learning and career development. The program operates a Master Arts in Career and Technical Education and a Ph.D. in Career and Workforce Education. These programs follow a cohort approach and are delivered primarily online. For more information visit our website at http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/departments/ache/
cte/CareerandWorkforceEducation.html

Responsibilities

We request applications from candidates whose work focuses on the assessment and evaluation of the impact of career and workforce educational interventions and policies. We are particularly interested in candidates who study organizational factors and linkages with curriculum and instruction, management supports, community contexts, and education-and-work articulation structures. Major responsibilities include teaching, advising, and contributing to the graduate programs in career and workforce education. The new faculty member will teach classes relevant to designing, implementing, and evaluating career and workforce education programs, and to curriculum and instruction in occupational contexts. Additionally, they will serve on and chair dissertation committees as appropriate to the rank, continue or begin to establish a record of scholarly productivity as appropriate to the rank, secure external funding in support of the program mission, contribute to program design, development, and operational activities, and provide service to the profession, University, and community.

Qualifications

Required:

• Earned doctorate in Career, Technical, Occupational, Workforce Education or closely related field
• Evidence of potential for teaching in Career & Workforce Education at the graduate level
• Evidence of potential for research and scholarly productivity in career and workforce education
• Evidence of involvement in professional organizations at the state, national, and/or international levels

Preferred:

• Experience directing or co-directing dissertation committees
• Established record of involvement in grant projects
• Experience delivering coursework via the Internet
• Teaching or related experience in a career and technical education or closely related program at the secondary or postsecondary level
• Experience promoting global perspectives and initiatives in workforce education and training
• Evidence of commitment in diversity and multi-cultural issues in workforce education and training
• Experience teaching in a graduate Career and Technical Education or related program at the university level

Salary:  Negotiable, competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

To Apply: Full consideration will be given to complete applications received by 5:00pm EST November 30, 2009.  Applications will be considered until the position is filled

Applications must be submitted electronically to https://employment.usf.edu

Please do not send materials via mail or email.

Application Process:

USF welcomes applications from qualified applicants who have knowledge of and experience with individuals representing diverse backgrounds and cultures. Applications should include a letter of intent describing your background and detailing your experiences relevant to each of the required and preferred qualifications for the position in each of the above areas, current vita, a copy of one or more recent research articles (maximum of four) presented at professional conferences or published in refereed journals, and the names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of four professional references. Please specify Position #4079. Position finalists may be requested to provide letters of recommendation from professional references and official university transcripts. Letters from references and university transcripts are not required at the time of application. References will not be contacted until advanced stages of screening, and candidates will receive prior notification.

The decision regarding the academic rank at which to hire new faculty is made based on university criteria for promotion; see Section B of USF Guidelines for Tenure and Promotion at http://files.acad.usf.edu/facprogdev/5464.pdf.

Questions about the position may be directed to Dr. Victor Hernandez-Gantes , Chair of the Search Committee, email address:  vhgantes@coedu.usf.edu

The University of South Florida is an equal opportunity, affirmative action, equal access institution. For disability accommodations, contact Christena DiBuono Stone at (813) 974-0020, stone@coedu.usf.edu at least five working days in advance of need.

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