Professor and Chair, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences - UW School of Public Health (Job)
Description:
The Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington (UW) invites applications to become its new Department Chair and Professor with Tenure. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in transformational leadership. The Chair will support the Department’s mission of providing rigorous training in the fundamentals and practice of Environmental and Occupational Health and improving public health through excellence in research and public health practice. The successful candidate will be expected to build upon the department’s strengths and support our vision to lead a department where our work informs, advocates for, and promotes concrete action to improve public health. The Chair of the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences will lead a group of talented and committed faculty, staff, and students of diverse backgrounds. The Chair will work to prepare future public health professionals and researchers who will conduct the unfinished work of improving the well-being of communities and workplacesin the United States and throughout the world.
The UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, one of five departments in the School of Public Health, is ranked seventh in the world (third in the U.S.) among environmental and occupational health sciences programs. The Department is home to 38 regular faculty and 110 auxiliary faculty conducting interdisciplinary research and academic instruction incorporating laboratory, field, computational and other investigative sciences. Average annual enrollment is about 80 students for our graduate programs and about 95 students for our undergraduate program.
This is a full-time (100% FTE), tenured, 12-month service period position at the rank of Professor, with an anticipated start date of Fall 2025 for an initial five-year appointment as Chair. The base salary range for this position will be $14,000-$29,000 per month, commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination. Other compensation associated with this position may include a lump sum moving allowance and/or a relocation incentive, and an administrative supplement (ADS) of $25,000 per year for serving as Department Chair.
Skills/Eligibility:
Qualifications
Candidates must have expertise in academic leadership. Candidates must hold a doctoral degree (or foreign equivalent) in a field relevant to environmental or occupational health.
How to Apply:
Application Instructions
This institution is using Interfolio’s Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge. Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants who submit their materials by September 30, 2024 are guaranteed full consideration. Applications received after that date will be reviewed at the discretion of the search committee until the position is filled or the search is closed.
Follow this link to apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/148367
As part of the initial application stage, please submit:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Cover Letter: The cover letter should describe your interest in this position as well as research, teaching, service, and mentorship experience (no more than 5 pages)
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Statement: Discuss what values you bring or believe are pertinent to work contributing to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism — and how they could inform and align with the work you envision to prioritize in the department/SPH. Include a specific description of experience(s) developing or leading initiatives or programming applying diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism as well as the outcomes of that work. (2-5 pages).
- Leadership Statement: Describe your experience and approach to leadership in the academic, practice-based, local and federal government, philanthropy, healthcare systems or other settings. The statement should consider positive factors listed above (2-5 pages).
- Four References (contact information only, no formal letters requested at time of initial application)
Search Manager Contact Information
For questions, please contact Sara Bean, HR Administrative Specialist at gosphahr@uw.edu.