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The Department of Psychology invites applications for one Regular Part-Time Faculty to begin Sept 1, 2024. This position involves teaching a minimum of 5 sections per academic year, with the option of topping-up one’s workload up to full-time (subject to the availability of further sections). We seek candidates whose teaching and professional interests and activities relate to our shared commitment to an academic model that embeds leadership skills, innovation, region integrated learning, and applied learning opportunities in authentic and interactive settings. Teaching approaches that promote engaging, inclusive, and active instructional methods are highly valued.

The successful applicants will join a group of scholars who share a commitment to readying our students for dynamic career trajectories that build their capacities to innovate and lead, while developing self and social awareness. We have 4 years of courses that cover a breadth of psychology specialties, with a focus throughout on learning outcomes explicitly shaped by APA guidelines. Our students are invited to experience work integrated learning and to participate in research in collaboration with faculty. We operate on a collegial model, with shared decision-making and planning at the departmental level, and we do best with cooperation, camaraderie, and sharing of service work. We are committed to anti-oppressive practices and decolonizing methodologies, and to embedding Indigenous knowledge in our courses through work with Knowledge Keepers and Elders. As part of their regular teaching and non-teaching activities, the successful candidate will regularly engage in professional development and scholarly activities, including opportunities for teaching innovation, research, supervision of student undergraduate research, and supervision of student community-based educational activities, etc.

Course offerings are primarily offered in-person.

• A Masters in Psychology is required, and PhD in Psychology or PsyD is preferred

• Demonstrated commitment to teaching and professional development that supports and promotes equity, diversity, social justice and the inclusion of diverse ways of being, knowing, learning, and investigating

• Demonstrated commitment to collegiality, through respectful and fair engagement with colleagues, and evidence of service work relative to stage of career

• Demonstrated excellence in teaching introductory psychology and courses from at least one area of upper-level specialization.

• Excellent record of scholarly achievement, some of which may include community-engaged research, scholarship, and creative work, relative to stage of career

Strong Assets

• Embedded community-based experience with Indigenous learners/communities and/or minority learners/communities

• Demonstrated commitment to anti-oppressive practices and decolonizing methodologies

• Leadership experience in educational and/or community settings

Candidates should submit a Cover Letter, CV, PSYC Candidate Course Checklist, sample PowerPoint lesson, and Teaching Portfolio which should include: statement of teaching philosophy; evidence of evaluation of teaching; evidence of service work, committee work, and/or community engagement, and contact details for 2 references.

The first round of interviews is planned for the 2nd and 3rd weeks of May 2024.