Associate Professor

Description:

POSITION SUMMARY: Twelve-month, tenure-track or clinical assistant/associate professor faculty position in the Master of Social Work Program. The individual will have teaching, advising, course development, and service responsibilities in the MSW program and across the School of Behavioral & Community Health. Faculty hired in a tenure-track position will also have scholarship expectations. The individual will also have service responsibilities within the framework of the broader College of Health and across the University.

Faculty in the School of Behavioral & Community Health and the College of Health are also expected to collaborate in team-teaching within the program(s), participate in interprofessional education across the School and College, and assist in all aspects of program design, development, implementation, assessment, and administration. The individual will work with the MSW Program Director to determine the possibility of launching new courses within the areas of specialization, or adding new specializations to the program.

Preference will be given to individuals with both face-to-face and online teaching experience, as well as clinical supervision experience.

Preferred start date is August 1, 2023, and no later than August 15, 2023.

The Master of Social Work is housed within the Moravian University College of Health, in the newly formed School of Behavioral and Community Health (SoBaCH). This school has a mission of training students in a multicultural and social justice framework. The interdisciplinary College of Health emphasizes collaboration and interprofessional education across three units: the School of Behavioral & Community Health, the Helen Breidegam School of Nursing & Public Health, and the School of Rehabilitation Sciences (which includes graduate programs in Athletic Training, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology). By combining an entrepreneurial spirit and a unique curricular structure, students and faculty are able to engage with one another across disciplines in a truly interprofessional educational environment modeled toward best practices in the clinical setting. This collaborative environment is designed to foster student learning and engagement while avoiding the traditional discipline-specific silos that impede learning

The mission of the MSW Program is to create educational and professional opportunities to educate and train clinical and advanced practice social workers dedicated to anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and healing-centered practice, with a commitment to enhancing the lives of all people, locally and globally, through innovative and competency-based education. Our interdisciplinary training approach highlights theoretical, applied, field-based, and topical knowledge, allowing students to specialize in working with marginalized populations as clinical social workers or macro-level practitioners.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities and roles. Please note that this is not considered an all-inclusive list, and may change over time, in particular as the program is developed and in response to accreditation or institutional needs.

• Development, delivery, and assessment of courses within the MSW program, including both generalized and specialized courses
• Assessment of student learning in individual courses as well as within the curriculum as a whole
• Participation in accreditation activities
• Development and participation in team-teaching, interprofessional, and collaborative aspects of the program, within the School, the College, and the University
• Identification and development of new courses and concentrations as the program grows, in particular, in response to work-force needs
• Quality participation in partnership activities with internal and external partners to ensure the success of the program
• Teaching of courses in the program as designated by the program director, including the ability to teach in the online asynchronous format, as well as availability for monthly in-person weekend residencies at Moravian's campus in Bethlehem, PA.
• As defined in the faculty handbook, service to the institution, including serving on committees, attendance at faculty meetings and university ceremonies, advising of students, and other items listed in the handbook.