Assistant Professor in Wildland Resources – Uintah Basin Campus

The Department of Wildland Resources is seeking applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure track faculty position in wildlife ecology and management . We are seeking a scholar dedicated to educating undergraduate students in wildlife science and related fields. The position, to be filled at the Assistant Professor level, will be 90% teaching and 10% service. The position will be located at the Uintah Basin Regional Campus in Vernal, Utah. The starting date is negotiable, and can be as early as August 15, 2017 and as late as August 15, 2018. For further questions, please contact the search committee chair Dr. Dan MacNulty, dan.macnulty@usu.edu, phone 435-797-7442.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be the department’s representative at the Uintah Basin Regional Campus, teaching, coordinating, and advocating for our Wildlife Science degree and our other programs as needed. They will teach some of the courses required of students in our Wildlife Science major. Courses may be taught face-to-face, online, or broadcast, as well as using hybrids of these methods. Courses will be taught to students who live and work in the Uintah Basin and at other regional campuses. They will coordinate their course offerings with our faculty member at USU Eastern in Price, Utah, where our Wildlife Science degree also is offered.

This individual will mentor and advise undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds. They will interact with administrators, faculty, staff, and others at their home campus in Vernal, with our faculty member at USU Eastern in Price, and at the main campus in Logan to continue our established and successful program by coordinating the provision of courses needed by local students and coordinating the financial, scholarship, and other resources available for the wildlife program and other programs in the Uintah Basin. They will maintain and cultivate existing contacts with local offices of land management agencies such as the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for enrichment activities like field trips for students, for possible internships while the students are in school, and eventually for career positions for graduates.

The successful candidate must have teaching experience, including not only as a teaching assistant, but also preferably having been the primary instructor and designer for a course or courses. Teaching experience using multiple teaching methods and modes of delivery is desired. Courses taught are expected to be mostly at the undergraduate level, but graduate courses may be needed at times. The teaching load initially will be 3 courses in the fall semester and 3 in spring semester, with the possibility of offering classes in the summer for additional compensation. Many of the courses are already prepared.

Though research is not officially a part of this position, some research opportunities exist, especially in working with the land management agencies in the area and in summer. If desired and needed and if funding is available, the candidate would be able to advise a graduate student.

Dept/College Highlights:

Utah State University is a Carnegie doctoral high research institution, and Utah’s land-grant and space-grant University. Founded in 1888, USU is the oldest and largest public residential campus in Utah. The university enrolls approximately 18,000 students at its main campus in Logan, including 1,700 graduate students. Another 11,500 students enroll in USU courses at three regional campuses, fifteen teaching centers, international programs in China, and through online offerings. Approximately 3,000 high school students are enrolled in USU courses as part of an innovative statewide concurrent enrollment program.

The Uintah Basin Regional Campus provides excellent access to higher education for approximately 900 students attending the Roosevelt and Vernal campuses. The Uintah Basin Regional Campus is located in one of the most diverse and dynamic regions of the state. The Uintah Basin covers almost 15,000 square miles of northeast Utah encompassing an asymmetric bowl east of the Wasatch Mountains and south of the Uintah Mountains. Utah State University operates campuses at Vernal and Roosevelt , and provides service to the Uintah and Ouray reservation, expanding educational opportunities in a previously underserved region of the state. The regional economy, once based on agriculture and mining, has diversified, and energy extraction and tourism are now major industries as well. Northern Utah is an outdoor recreation paradise; local attractions include Dinosaur National Monument , Starvation Reservoir State Park , Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area , Raven Ridge and Uintah Wilderness area. Residents have easy access to a wide variety of winter sports and to spectacularly beautiful natural areas including world class hunting and fishing. And Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks and the southern Utah national parks and monuments also are not far away.

Utah State University offers competitive salaries and outstanding medical, retirement, and professional benefits. Women, minority, and veteran candidates as well as candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Utah State is sensitive to the needs of dual-career couples, is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and is committed to increasing diversity among students, faculty, and all participants in university life.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

1) An earned Ph.D. in a wildlife-related field. A person will be considered to have met this requirement if they have successfully defended their dissertation and just have editorial work to finish.

2) Successful college or university teaching experience is required.

3) Demonstrated ability to articulate natural resource science within and outside the classroom to diverse audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

Preference will be given to those candidates who have:

1) prepared and taught entire courses on their own,

2) teaching experience using more than one delivery method,

3) a demonstrated ability to work productively with land management agencies and various stakeholder groups, and

4) postdoctoral experience, especially with teaching experience included.

Opportunity Type:

Full-Time w/benefits package

Percent of Time or Hours per Week:

100%

Advertised Salary:

Commensurate with experience, plus excellent benefits

Required Documents (The names and contact information of 3 references will be collected during the application process) :

Cover Letter, Resume/CV, Teaching Philosophy

Other Required document types/Special Instructions to Applicants:

Provide teaching evaluations if available

Often Functional Requirements (25-75% time):

Use of fingers (e.g. typing),Both hands required or compensated by the use of acceptable prostheses

Continuous Functional Requirements (75%+ time):

Routine visual requirements (e.g. reading with attention to details; seeing activities near and far),Routine hearing ability (e.g. whispers at close range; voices at 15 feet; converse by telephone)

Continuous Environmental Factors (75%+ time):

Inside

ADA Cognitive Requirements:

Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Deal with non-verbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.) in its most difficult phases. Deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables. Comprehend complex, hard-to-understand concepts.

ADA Math Requirements:

Apply knowledge of advanced mathematical and statistical techniques such as differential and integral calculus, factor analysis, and probability determination, or work with a wide variety of theoretical mathematical concepts and make original applications of mathematical procedures, as in empirical and differential equations.

ADA Communication Requirements – Speech:

Expression of a level comparable to 5, plus highest order verbal skills such as ability to lecture to large groups, ability to speak on complex issues without prepared notes.

ADA Comm Requirements – Comprehension:

Comprehensive and expression of a level comparable to 5, plus highest order of composition skills such as ability to do this as primary function of the job, to draft and edit publication-quality papers, to prepare highly complex documents such as wills and contracts. May involve a large volume of such composition.

ADA Travel Requirements:

Minimal travel required – ability to travel infrequently (i.e., annually) for activities such as developmental sessions at a centralized training center.