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Boise State UNiversity

Location: BoiseID 83725 Document ID: AA392-45YY Posted on: 2016-09-2809/28/2016 Job Type: Regular
Contract

Job Schedule:Full-time
Will pay relocation expenses
Minimum Education: Ph.D.2016-10-28
 

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - Human-Environ

The University and Region:

Boise State University, powered by creativity and innovation, stands uniquely positioned in the Northwest as a metropolitan research university of distinction. Recognized as a university on the move, Boise State is the largest university in Idaho, with enrollment of more than 22,000 students. The University is located in the heart of Idaho’s capital city, a growing metropolitan area that serves as the government, business, high-tech, economic, and cultural center of the state. Time Magazine ranked Boise #1 in 2014 for ‘getting it right’ with a thriving economy, a booming cultural scene, quality health care, and a growing university. Livability.com also ranked Boise first among the top 10 cities to raise a family in 2014 thanks to an abundant quality of life, a family-friendly culture, a vibrant downtown, and great outdoor recreation. To further enhance the superb quality of life Boise offers, the University has committed to sustaining the conditions necessary for faculty to enter and thrive in their academic careers, while meeting personal and family responsibilities.

 

About the Position:

Interested applicants are encouraged to apply for a tenure-track faculty position in human-environment systems science. Competitive candidates will demonstrate capacity, expertise, and interest in quantitative approaches to analyzing coupled social and biophysical systems, with the goal of addressing some of our most pressing sustainability challenges. We seek candidates who develop and apply innovative strategies to describe, understand, and predict the dynamics of human-environment systems, including but not limited to, agent-based, dynamical, process-based and geostatistical modeling, and other innovative techniques for integrating models and data.

 

The new faculty member will join existing faculty in our Human-Environment Systems Center. This position is part of a statewide, NSF-funded effort to build expertise in human-environment systems science. With Boise State’s new College of Innovation and Design as a home, the candidate will have the opportunity to collaboratively build an integrated research and teaching center focusing on coupled human-environment systems. The center weaves together biophysical and social science knowledge and skills to develop solutions and quantitative approaches to society’s most challenging environmental problems. In addition, faculty will have the opportunity to contribute to an existing NSF-funded research effort (NSF Award # IIA-1301792) to better understand how landscapes and associated ecosystem services in Idaho will evolve under the stressors of population growth and climate change.

 

Research: 

Successful candidates will be able to: 

  • Build a strong collaborative (team science) research program that integrates biophysical and social sciences;
  • Secure extramural funding;
  • Create knowledge to meet challenges at the human-environment interface;
  • Disseminate that knowledge through high-impact publications and other, less traditional, mechanisms; 
  • Help develop a leading program in human-environment systems science; and
  • Contribute to Boise State's academic excellence by developing an integrated program of research, teaching, and service that also broadens participation and diversity to more effectively address the complex challenges of coupled human-environment systems.

 

Teaching: 

The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to high-quality education and develop innovative, scholarly, and collaborative approaches to teaching undergraduate and graduate students. Successful candidates may develop hybridized, flipped, and/or online class formats as well as short courses and workshops. Courses will be offered through multiple departments and the College of Innovation and Design. Expected teaching load is nominally two classes per year. Teaching responsibilities will be aligned with the candidates' quantitative training and will emphasize the interface of human-environment sciences. 

 

We welcome applicants at the Assistant Professor level and also encourage exceptional candidates exhibiting a proven record of excellence in obtaining extramural research funding, scholarly productivity, and teaching at the Associate Professor level.

 

Qualifications

 

Minimum Qualifications:

PhD, at the time of appointment, in biophysical or social sciences, with an emphasis on quantitative methods and approaches. 

 

Salary and Benefits: 
Salary is competitive within the Western region and commensurate with qualifications and experience.  In addition, an excellent benefits package is available for eligible employees. For more information visit: http://hrs.boisestate.edu/careers/benefits/

 

Please apply here:

https://boisestate.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=160637

 

Attach the following documents to your application:

Review of applications will begin October 15, 2016 and will continue until the position is filled. Please include the following attachments with your application and also email them to hes@boisestate.edu. Please add Search #HES-160637 to the subject line of your email:

  • A cover letter
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Contact information for a minimum of 3 professional references
  • 3 publications as representative sample work

In the cover letter, you should address the following items in this order:

  • Your qualifications for this position, especially application of quantitative methods;
  • Your capacity to develop an integrated research and education program to solve problems at the interface of human-environment systems;
  • Evidence and interest in collaboration, and;
  • Your interest and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Candidates wishing to be considered for employment at the level of Associate Professor should specifically identify so in the cover letter. 

 

Boise State University embraces and welcomes diversity in its faculty, student body, and staff. Accordingly, candidates who would add to the diversity and excellence of our academic community are encouraged to apply.