Associate Director of New MPH Initiatives & Visiting non-tenure track role

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Associate Director of New MPH Initiatives & Visiting non-tenure track role

About Northeastern:

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern’s comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences has over 200 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial and biomedical sciences and supports the University’s mission of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs.

The Department of Health Sciences is an interdisciplinary department in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, one of nine colleges at Northeastern University. We provide a world-class education in a broad range of public health and clinical careers that promote the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and populations in culturally diverse contexts. We are committed to evidence-based research and research translation to eliminate health disparities. Our department is a unique, transdisciplinary setting that incorporates teaching, learning, and serving, in a rapidly evolving, multicultural environment that includes perspectives based on diversity by race, ethnicity, class, ability, language, gender, sexuality, age and nationality. The Department currently includes 47 faculty engaged in research, teaching, and practice, many of whom are jointly appointed in other schools within Bouvé and in other colleges across the University.

About the Opportunity:

The Department of Health Sciences, in Bouvé College at Northeastern University, invites applications for an Associate Director of New MPH Initiatives & Visiting non-tenure track role. This is an open rank, non-tenure track, visiting faculty position with the possible opportunity for renewal. Faculty rank (Assistant/Associate/ Full) is dependent upon expertise and qualifications. The Northeastern Master of Public Health program is a CEPH accredited program with over 140 students currently enrolled in the program. The current program offers both full and part-time degrees as well as both on-campus and online degrees. The Associate Director will coordinate the development and implementation of new MPH initiatives. The new accelerated experiential Master of Public Health (MSe) program will be launched in Fall semester 2022 and is designed to be completed in one year.  It is a hybrid program consisting of online coursework coupled with on-the-ground experiential learning that will be integrated throughout the program.  The MPH program on the Boston campus will also be implemented next year in Bouvé College’s new Charlotte, NC campus.

At Northeastern University, we embrace a culture of respect, where each person is valued for their contribution and is treated fairly. We oppose all forms of racism. We support a culture that does not tolerate any form of discrimination and where each person may belong. We strive to have a diverse membership, one where each person is trained and mentored to promote their success.

Responsibilities:

The Associate Director of New MPH Initiatives will oversee the development of the MSe including the updating of existing online MPH courses, formation of industry partnerships, coordination with MPH faculty, and development of experiential learning components within the program. In addition, the Associate Director will oversee the implementation of the MPH program in Bouvé College’s new Charlotte, NC campus. This position will include teaching responsibilities.

Qualifications:

Minimum degree requirement by the appointment start date is MPH with a preference for a doctoral degree (e.g. PhD or DrPH in Public Health or a related field). Applicants should have a strong record of excellence in teaching and a demonstrated ability to mentor a diverse community of students. Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.

Candidates should have a strong background in foundations of public health, project management, program development and implementation, as well as expertise in health disparities and community-engaged programs.  The candidate’s expertise may focus on areas such as health equity, socioeconomic determinants of health, structural racism, substance use, mental health, health technologies, and/or environmental health. We are seeking candidates from diverse backgrounds.

Candidates must demonstrate a background of successful teaching at the graduate level in a university setting.  Expertise in teaching undergraduates is also desirable. Candidates should have a strong familiarity in developing, implementing, and teaching online courses. Preferred candidates will have a background in experiential learning and practical applications of public health programs in diverse community settings.

Preferred Qualifications:

Additional Information:

Interested candidates should apply here with a curriculum vita that includes a list of publications and statements addressing the prompts below. Review of applications will begin immediately with anticipated starting date February 1, 2022.

Successful faculty at Northeastern will be dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of teaching excellence and a commitment to contributing to improved equity, diversity, and inclusion. Thus, strong candidates for this faculty position will have the expertise, knowledge, and skills to build their pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment. Please indicate how your expertise, knowledge, and skills have prepared you to contribute to this work with written statements addressing the following prompts:

Program Development statement:

Please describe expertise developing and/or managing programs including approaches to project management, partnership development, and program sustainability.

Teaching statement:

Please summarize your past instructional and mentorship expertise, your pedagogical philosophy, your plans/goals for teaching in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences (including existing and proposed courses), and your strategies for teaching and mentoring a diverse cohort of undergraduate and graduate students.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity statement:

Please provide an example of a time when you altered or changed your approach to research, teaching, or service because of the diversity of the group you were working with or your awareness of marginalized populations. What changes did you make? Did they have the effects that you hoped for at the time? What did you learn from this situation? How would you expect to apply what you learned from this situation as a faculty member in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences? We are interested in how you handled and learned from a past situation, not the identities of the people involved, so please only disclose what you are comfortable with.