Career-Track Assistant Professor Biological Sciences
Online applications must be received before 12:00am on:
January 8, 2025
If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details.
Available Title(s):
158-NN_FACULTY – Teaching Assistant Professor – Career, 159-NN_FACULTY – Teaching Associate Professor – Career
Business Title:
Career-Track Assistant Professor | Biological Sciences
Employee Type:
Faculty
Position Term:
9 Month – Summer
Position Details:
The School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University Tri-Cities invites applications for an Assistant Professor – Career Track (Teaching) position in Richland, WA, specializing in biological sciences. This position is a fixed-term, nine-month, three-year appointment, with the possibility of renewal. The successful candidate will have a teaching-focused role with a workload distribution of 80% teaching and 20% service.
Job Duties:
- Teaching (80%): The candidate will be responsible for teaching undergraduate courses in the field of Biology, with an emphasis on human anatomy and human physiology lectures and labs. Additional courses may include, but are not limited to, introductory biology and other upper-division biology courses. The candidate will develop and deliver effective instructional content that fosters an inclusive learning environment for a diverse student population.
- Service (20%): The candidate will contribute to the WSU Tri-Cities campus community through service activities, including student mentorship, participation in departmental committees, and collaboration with other units within the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Advance WSU Tri Cities efforts to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion among the faculty, staff and students in teaching, and community outreach.
Required Qualifications:
- A Ph.D. in Biology or a closely related field by the appointment date.
- Demonstrated potential or record of effective teaching in biology, with a commitment to student-centered pedagogy.
- Proven or potential dedication to fostering an inclusive and equitable educational environment in alignment with WSU’s land-grant mission.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both students and colleagues in written and verbal forms
Preferred Qualifications:
- Evidence of innovative teaching approaches that enhance the pedagogy of biology.
- A record of or potential for excellence in teaching diverse student populations.
- At least one year of post-doctoral experience in biology or a related field.
- Demonstrated ability to direct undergraduate students in research projects and/or mentor students in career exploration and guidance
Additional Information:
Area/College:
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Department Name:
College of Arts and Sciences
City, State, Zip:
Richland, Washington 99354
Department Links:
https://tricities.wsu.edu/cas/
https://tricities.wsu.edu/biology
Assistant Professor 9-Month Academic year Salary: $56,000.00 – $65,000.00
In accordance with RCW 49.58.110, the above salary reflects the full salary range per rank for this position. Individual placement within the range is based on the candidate’s current experience, education, skills, and abilities related to the position or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination. WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation and optional supplemental retirement accounts.
Benefits: WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation and optional supplemental retirement accounts. For a more detailed summary of benefits offered by WSU for Faculty visit: https://hrs.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-Benefit-Overview-for-Faculty-and-AP-1.pdf
Find total compensation information here: https://hrs.wsu.edu/managers/recruitment-toolkit/total-compensation/.
FTE: 100%
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible
This is a full time, career-track, 3-year position, with an anticipated appointment start date of August 16, 2025.
To Apply: Ensure that all the required and preferred qualifications that apply are addressed in your application submissions. Application materials should clearly communicate how the applicant meets all required qualifications and additional requirements.
Applicants must upload the following required documents to their online application.
- A cover letter addressing qualifications for this position as well as a response to the following prompt:
As a land-grant university, our university has a continuing commitment to ensuring equitable and meaningful inclusion in our classrooms, collaborations, and academic work. The successful candidate for this faculty position will have the experiences, knowledge, and skills to build their practice, pedagogy, curriculum, and service in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment. Using the job announcement for this position, please list at least three areas of responsibility you see as directly related to fulfilling this promise, and explain, in each case, how your past education and teaching experiences, and resulting knowledge and skills, have prepared you to do this work.
- Curriculum vitae
- Teaching statement that describes your teaching experience and philosophy, which may incorporate experience from formal or informal teaching and mentoring opportunities.
- Names, addresses, and contact information of at least three references who can address your history of and potential for excellence in research, teaching, and service (letters will be requested at a later time). At least one reference must be able to address your teaching experience, abilities, and/or potential.
External candidates, please upload all documents in the “Resume/CV” section of your application. Internal candidates, please upload all documents in the “Resume/Cover Letter” section.
If you have questions regarding this position, please contact the College of Arts and Sciences at:
Application Review: This position has been re-posted. For full consideration, please submit your application by January 8, 2025, by 11:59 p.m.
Background Check:
This position has been designated by the department to require a background check because it requires access to children or vulnerable adults as defined by RCW 74.34, engages in law enforcement, requires security clearance, interacts with WSU students in a counseling or advising capacity, has access to personal identifying and/or financial information, unsupervised access to university buildings/property, or other business-related need. A background check will not be completed until an initial determination of qualification for employment has been made.
Campus and Program Description
WSU Tri-Cities is committed to creating a student-ready campus, marked by academic excellence, career-connected learning, and social belonging. This commitment is informed by our belief that all students, faculty, and staff contribute value to our campus culture. We ascribe to an assets-based framework for understanding and celebrating difference and are deeply committed to closing equity gaps where they exist. We are proud that almost half of our students are first in their family to attend college and almost half of our students identify as students of color. We believe that this diversity is a great strength in the classroom and across the many co-curricular activities in which WSU Tri-Cities students participate and lead.
Furthermore, WSU, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Biology department value diversity amongst the faculty and as such we encourage applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. WSU is a land grant, multi-campus, state university. The Lecturer position will serve on the TriCities campus located in Richland, Washington.
WSU acknowledges that its locations statewide are on the homelands of Native American peoples, who have lived in this region and have been caretakers of the land from time immemorial. The Morrill Act of 1862 established our land-grant institution by providing public and federal lands that are traced back to the disposition of Indigenous lands, often taken by coercive and violent acts, and the disregard of treaties. For that, we extend our deepest apologies. We owe our deepest gratitude to the Native peoples of this region and maintain our commitment towards reconciliation. And as a land-grant institution, WSU is deeply committed to the land-grant mission, its Memorandums of Understanding with Native tribes in the region, and a tradition of service to society.
To read the full WSU land acknowledgement, please see https://wsu.edu/about/wsu-land-acknowledgement/.
Time Type:
Full time
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WSU employs only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
WSU is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact Human Resource Services: 509-335-4521 (v), Washington State TDD Relay Service: Voice Callers: 1-800-833-6384; TDD Callers: 1-800-833-6388, 509-335-1259(f), or hrs@wsu.edu.
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