Overview

The Department of Family Science, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park seeks a full-time tenure track Assistant Professor to join a dynamic, interdisciplinary department with family science, maternal and child health, and couple and family therapy programs. The new hire will join a highly supportive and collaborative faculty. We are a community of scholars devoted to scholarly excellence and creating a learning and research environment that seeks diverse perspectives and fosters inclusion, equity, and justice. This candidate will help the Department further enhance its national leadership at the forefront of research, education, and practice in maternal, child, and family health (MCFH). We are particularly interested in candidates conducting research in one or more of these MCFH areas: life course health; infant, early, or middle childhood health; social determinants of health; global health; or another MCFH substantive topic. The candidate should be able to (1) lead an externally funded research program in MCFH, 2) teach and mentor graduate students, and 3) play a central role in the Department’s dynamic maternal and child health and family science programs. Preference will be given to candidates with a strong record of grant experience.

Qualifications:

  • Candidates should hold a doctoral degree (Ph.D., Sc.D., DrPH) or equivalent in maternal and child health, family science, another public health discipline, human development, psychology, sociology, demography, or related social or health science field.
  • Substantial public health training and research experience or an M.P.H. degree are essential if the highest degree is not in public health.
  • The ideal candidate will demonstrate a promising record of published academic research and teaching; a record of or strong potential to secure external funding to support MCFH research; a commitment to promoting health equity, advanced quantitative research skills, and demonstrated experience working with large-scale datasets.
  • Candidates must also be effective communicators and demonstrate ability and interest in working with diverse student, faculty, and staff populations with various backgrounds, learning styles, and skill levels. As a program in the School of Public Health, we are particularly interested in candidates who can meaningfully contribute to our departmental’s focus on transdisciplinary scholarship on family health and wellness.

Salary and Appointment Date: This is a 9-month tenure-track appointment; salary is commensurate with qualifications. Funding is guaranteed for 9 months annually, with the potential to extend salary support to 12 months with teaching or external funds. Appointments may begin in August 2024 or on a mutually agreed-upon date.

Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution and among the nation’s top 20 research universities. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world. The University has a range of family-friendly policies and programs. The Department of Family Science (sph.umd.edu/academics/departments-units/department-family-science) offers a B.S. in Family Science, an M.S. in Couple and Family Therapy (accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education) and Ph.D. programs in Family Science and Maternal and Child Health. The Department holds diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice as core principles and serves one of the most diverse undergraduate student bodies on campus. The Department operates the Center for Healthy Families, a community-facing clinical unit serving approximately 250 area families and couples annually. The Department is within the University of Maryland’s accredited School of Public Health (sph.umd.edu). The School and Department are committed to promoting and protecting the health and well-being of diverse communities throughout Maryland, the nation, and the world through leadership and collaboration in interdisciplinary education, research, practice, and public policy.

The University of Maryland, College Park, actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry, or national origin, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, and gender identity or expression.

Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.

The University of Maryland School of Public Health is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health and is located at the flagship institution of the state of Maryland in College Park on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway people, the traditional stewards of the lands where we work, live and learn. The University of Maryland is an extraordinary place—vibrant and dynamic and diverse. We are a place of learning: a school dedicated to the art and science of education and committed to reimagining teaching and learning inside both classrooms and communities. We are a campus dedicated to the indisputable value of science, the humanities, inquiry, and creativity, comprising tens of thousands of researchers and discoverers working in hundreds of laboratories, libraries, and collaborative spaces. Strategically located just a few miles from the US capital, our university is a place where new knowledge is pursued, discovered, and championed. We are also a community, nearly half a million members strong, of diverse students, faculty, staff, and alumni; a small city of residents and commuters, first responders and health care workers, learners, artists, and athletes; a place where thousands come to work every day to make a difference. Our diversity is integral to our excellence. And ours is a community that is intrinsically connected to our surrounding neighborhoods and our state, our nation, and our world. The University of Maryland remains, since our founding, an

institution of change and progress dedicated to the public good. Our university is evolving faster than at any moment in its storied history. Our guiding principles are helping us to empower the next generation of leaders, educators, scientists, and global citizens to

develop creative solutions to the grand challenges of our times.

As a growing School of Public Health at one of the nation’s leading research universities, we are well-positioned to advance and translate public health knowledge to improve health and well- being. Our students, faculty, staff and community partners are driven by a passion to break down the barriers that keep individuals, families, communities and populations from attaining optimum health and wellness. We value diversity and strive for inclusion in all we do, uplifting people and communities who have experienced historic and ongoing oppression. Through our education, research and community-based work, we are committed to finding new and better ways to promote health, prevent disease and prolong active, happy and high-quality lives. The School’s mission is “to promote and protect the health and the wellbeing of the diverse communities throughout Maryland, the nation and the world through leadership and collaboration in interdisciplinary education, research, practice, and public policy.” The faculty will serve alongside a diverse team and contribute to fulfilling our shared campus, school and department missions.

Requirements

  • Possess a doctoral degree (Ph.D., Sc.D., DrPH) or equivalent in maternal and child health, family science, another public health discipline, human development, psychology, sociology, demography, or related social or health science field.
  • Possess Substantial public health training and research experience or an M.P.H. degree are essential if the highest degree is not in public health.
  • Demonstrated evidence of a promising record of published academic research and teaching
  • A record of or strong potential to secure external funding to support a research program
  • Demonstrated commitment to health equity
  • Advanced quantitative research skills and demonstrated experience working with large- scale datasets
  • Outstanding communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability and interest in working with diverse student, faculty, and staff populations with various backgrounds, learning styles, and skill levels
  • Capacity to work in a transdisciplinary environment on issues of family healt h and wellness in a public health context.

Application:

Applications should include the following:

  • cover letter clearly indicating how the candidate meets each of the qualifications
  • curriculum vitae
  • one-page statement discussing the applicant’s past and future contributions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice through teaching, research, and/or service;
  • two representative publications; and
  • contact information for three references (to be contacted only with the candidate’s approval).
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