Assistant Professor - Nursing

About the role

The Nursing and Health Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay seeks applicants for a tenure-track position in Nursing. The successful applicant will contribute to an academic unit which embraces a team-based approach and innovative teaching methods to develop students who can think critically while delivering high quality care. This position will be responsible for enhancing UW-Green Bay’s mission-driven inclusive teaching efforts and creating and maintaining an educational environment that acknowledges, encourages, and celebrates those with diverse identities, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate optimal learning through integration of technology and utilization of appropriate delivery methods.
• Teach didactic, skills/simulation, and/or clinical courses.
• Contribute to ongoing program development.
• Implement inclusive instructional strategies to increase support for students from underrepresented and first-generation backgrounds at UW-Green Bay.
• Perform institutional and community service.
• Develop a strong research program involving collaboration with students and/or faculty.
• Teach lower- and upper-level courses (both online and in person) in nursing and/or one of the health professions programs.
• Perform scholarly activities consistent with rank.
• Advise and mentor students.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Earned doctorate in Nursing or closely related field from an accredited institution by the end of the first academic year.
• Candidates who have not completed their doctorate by the start date will be hired into a terminal appointment at the rank of Instructor with a rate determined at the time of hire. Upon degree conferral, the title will change to Assistant Professor.
• The contract will not be renewed if the degree is not conferred by the end of the terminal appointment.
• Must hold an unencumbered Wisconsin Nursing License or have the ability to obtain a Wisconsin Nursing License; Must have an unencumbered Wisconsin Nursing license at the time of employment.
• Demonstrated potential for excellence in teaching.
• Demonstrated potential for excellence in scholarship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Teaching experience, preferably in nursing.
• Recent clinical nursing experience with preference given for experience in medical surgical nursing, maternity, pediatrics, critical care, or community health.

Qualifications

• Teaching experience, preferably in nursing.
• Recent clinical nursing experience with preference given for experience in medical surgical nursing, maternity, pediatrics, critical care, or community health.

Skills

• Strong oral, written, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated integrity and strong leadership.
• The willingness to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.
• This position is exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
• Benefit Details:
  • Health insurance options.
  • Dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D and Accident insurance.
  • Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
  • Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS).
  • 403(b) and Deferred Compensation.
  • Paid leave benefits.

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Schedule

The home campus of this position is Green Bay and the successful candidate may occasionally be required to teach a course or work at the Sheboygan or Manitowoc Campus. Position is an academic year, tenure-track appointment.