Assistant/Associate Professor, Organizational Development

The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) invites applications for a tenure-track position in the School of Business at the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor, with a proposed starting date of January 1, 2025. As an institution committed to the fostering of an inclusive and transformative learning environment, UNBC values high quality and growth in both teaching and scholarship.

Topics of interest to the school include but are not limited to: leadership/strategy, change management, and organizational design. This is an intentional diversity hiring position.

The School is in the Faculty of Business and Economics whose mission is to create, translate, and mobilize knowledge of sustainable business management practices and economic development in rural and remote locations in the global economy. The mission of the school is to work with our communities and businesses to achieve excellence in the management of organizations in the area. Our school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including a BComm, Graduate Certificate in Change Leadership, MBA, and MScBA.

The successful candidate for this position is expected to have leadership experience in academia and/or industry, will strengthen the community ties created by the School, as well as contribute to excellence in teaching and scholarship. The School is developing our Sustainable Business discipline area and the successful candidate will be able to support this endeavour by conducting research and teaching on issues related to transformational change in organizations.

The School is also incorporating more experiential learning and action research. This is to support our mission of translating knowledge into our communities. The successful candidate will work with our community partners to enhance research and teaching at the School. Current initiatives include, applied courses (consulting, technology entrepreneurship, social enterprises, and sustainability), case studies, and co-designing courses with community members.

Ranked as one of Canada’s best small universities, the University of Northern British Columbia is a research-intensive university with an enrolment of over 3500 students in more than 40 undergraduate and graduate academic programs. UNBC has embarked on a new strategic plan that is fully integrated into the School of Business .

Candidates must hold a PhD in Business (or related fields) with an emphasis on Organizational Development from an AACSB-accredited university.

Successful candidates for the position will have:

• Demonstrated research in the areas related to change management, strategic HR, organizational design, and leadership.
• Demonstrated clear potential, or ability, to develop an independent and robust research program.
• Demonstrated ability to work with Faculty within and outside of the business school in teaching, research, and service.
• Demonstrated ability to teach organizational behaviour and human resource management courses.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in academia/industry/community.
• Demonstrated desire to support the Sustainability discipline in the School of Business.
• Demonstrated desire to contribute to service.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a teaching team to ensure consistency across sections in a multi-section course.

Preferential hiring assists UNBC to achieve equitable and diverse representation in the institution. As part of an employment equity initiative undertaken by the University and the Faculty of Business and Economics, female candidates will be given preferential consideration for this position, and we would like to encourage
women to apply for this posting. In order to qualify for preferential consideration, female applicants are asked to self-identify by completing a self-identification questionnaire as part of the recruitment process.