PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The UND SMHS Indigenous Health Department is seeking to recruit a tenure-eligible Associate or Full Professor to lead the Indigenous Trauma & Resilience Research Center (ITRRC) as Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) and to teach, co-instruct, and provide guest lectures in courses in the Ph.D. curriculum; provide service to the program, university, and profession; and to serve on dissertation committees. The appointed candidate will also serve as an academic advisor to PhD students.
The awarding of tenure requires the approval of the President of the University as well as the State Board of Higher Education.
JOB DUTIES:
RESEARCH:
• Serve as PD/PI of the ITRRC
• Pursue additional resource opportunities to expand upon the ITRRC.
• Develop and implement an independent Indigenous Health Research portfolio.
• Collaborate with Indigenous health faculty on developing externally funded projects based on professional expertise.
• Work with graduate students and create research assistantship opportunities.
• Write and submit grants.
TEACHING & ADVISING:
• Indigenous Health PhD courses are taught in synchronous formats using tele-video technologies via Zoom.
• Blackboard is the teaching platform.
• Serve as an Instructor, Co-Instructor, or lecturer for Indigenous Health PhD courses.
• Mentor PhD and MPH students and serve as an academic advisor.
SERVICE:
• Service includes contribution to the institution/school/department (e.g. committees), to the profession (e.g. professional organizations), and to the community (e.g. boards, etc.).
• Service expectations are commensurate with percent FTE and consistent with promotion guidelines.
This position will provide teaching, research, and service in a manner consistent with Indigenous Health Department values and vision. This position will be required to obtain at least 50% of the salary from external sources for research and creative activity by the end of the first year.
