Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice - Fargo, United States - North Dakota State University

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Position Information

Emergency Management - 9 mo. Assistant Visiting Professor of Practice

The NDSU Disaster Resilience and Emergency Management Program is actively engaged in, and committed to, the advancement of the study of disasters, the furtherance of community resilience, and the advancement of the emergency management profession and discipline at the local, state, national, and international levels. DREM is a program in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Disaster Resilience, and Emergency Management. The department is a dynamic and growing element within the School of Design, Architecture, and Art, which offers degrees in: Landscape Architecture; Disaster Resilience; Emergency Management; Architecture; Interior Design; Visual Arts; Art Education; and Apparel and Retail Merchandising. We are committed to collaborative efforts among faculty within the School, at the college and university level, and with external partners. Our facilities are in downtown Fargo, boasting a 94 Walk Score and an 86 Bike Score. NDSU is a Land Grant and a Carnegie-designated research (R1) institution.

The Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice position is a 9-month, full-time, benefitted faculty position starting in August 2024. We are seeking candidates with focused research and foundational abilities involving community resilience. The successful candidate will be required to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels with a particular emphasis on: disaster mitigation, community resilience; hazard risk, and vulnerability assessment, systems thinking, and spatial analysis. Other activities include program and departmental governance, advising students, and other service obligations within the university and scholarly communities.

Minimum Qualifications

A doctoral degree in disaster science, community resilience, emergency management, or a closely related discipline.

Demonstrate potential to develop an individual area of expertise and a focused research agenda supporting the furtherance of designing disaster-resilient communities.

Effective oral and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications

Successful teaching experience, including instructional design, curriculum development, course delivery, and assessment in face-to-face, online, and hybrid learning environments.

Ability to teach courses focused on disaster mitigation, community resilience, hazard, risk, and vulnerability assessment, systems thinking, spatial analysis, or geographic information services.

Demonstrated knowledge of emergency management principles, processes, and practices and the ability to apply design thinking to solve complex resilience problems.

Record of individual research, grant writing, and publication in disaster science, community resilience, emergency management, geospatial technology, and analysis, designing for a changing climate, or ecological analysis.
To Apply

Complete the electronic application.

Provide the following documents as electronic PDF attachments

Cover Letter

Teaching Philosophy

Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Transcripts

Contact information for three references

Screening will begin 3/21/24

Land Acknowledgement

We collectively acknowledge that NDSU, a land grant institution, on the traditional lands of the Oceti Sakowin (Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda) and Anishinaabe Peoples in addition to many diverse Indigenous Peoples still connected to these lands. We honor with gratitude Mother Earth and the Indigenous Peoples who have walked with her throughout generations. We will continue to learn how to live in unity with Mother Earth and build strong, mutually beneficial, trusting relationships with Indigenous Peoples of our region. (see ).

About Us

About Us:

North Dakota State University is distinctive as a student focused, land-grant, research university. We educate leaders who solve national and global challenges by providing affordable access to an excellent education that combines teaching and research in a rich learning environment.

NDSU is in the highest Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, R1, granted to the top research institutions in the country.

NDSU has offices across the state of North Dakota, and the main campus is in Fargo, on the Minnesota border. Along with Moorhead, Minnesota, Fargo forms one of the largest metropolitan centers between Minneapolis and Seattle. The community is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live.

No Smoking Notice :

As an employer, the State of North Dakota prohibits smoking in all places of state employment in accordance with N.D.C.C. §

EO/AA Statement:

North Dakota State University is an Equal Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender expression/identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, participation in lawful off-campus activity, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, public assistance status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, spousal relationship to current employee, or veteran status, as applicable.

Diversity Statement:

NDSU strives to be a community of belonging, recognizing unique differences as strengths of our university. We seek to recruit and retain a diverse workforce that supports a community in which diverse populations and perspectives will know and learn from one another. NDSU values candidates who are committed to our core values of respect, inclusivity, community, creativity, excellence, impact, innovation, integrity, resilience, responsiveness, and transformation. Successful candidates will be committed to and help advance our strategic goal to create and maintain an open and respectful environment to promote inclusivity and diversity as a cornerstone of education, research, and outreach.