Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry

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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Let's parse the job description. We have: - Job Description: The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation invites applications for Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry. At Virginia Tech, Collegiate professors are full members of the faculty whose responsibilities are focused on teaching. The successful candidate will join Virginia’s only four-year Society of American Foresters-accredited forestry program and will play a highly visible, student-facing role in sustaining core forestry instruction, field-based education, professional preparation, and workforce connections. We seek an educator with broad forestry expertise, a strong background in forest operations, and the ability to connect classroom and field laboratory instruction with contemporary forestry practices and employer expectations. - Teaching and Mentoring Expectations: The position is expected to carry approximately a 3:3 teaching load, with appropriate consideration of the additional time demands of field laboratory courses. Specific teaching assignments may include some of the following courses, depending on program needs and the professional experience and expertise of the successful candidate: list of courses. The successful candidate may also contribute to a first-year experience course, forestry courses for non-majors, a forestry capstone course, or study-abroad experiences, as appropriate, within the approximately 3:3 teaching workload expectation. - Research, Scholarship, Extension, and Engagement Expectations: For a Collegiate faculty appointment, approximately 5–10% of effort may support pedagogical or disciplinary scholarship and collaborative research. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to curriculum development and revision, student mentoring, experiential learning, and engagement with forestry employers and stakeholders. Participation in Forestry Extension activities is possible but not required. - About The Department Of Forest Resources And Environmental Conservation: description. - Required Qualifications: Doctorate by time of appointment in forestry, natural resources, or a closely related field. Demonstrated professional or academic expertise sufficient to teach the above-listed courses, with emphasis on forest operations courses. Demonstrated commitment to deliver high-quality, field-based and experiential undergraduate education. Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills. - Preferred Qualifications: Professional forestry credentials Operational experience, or substantial engagement with forest industry, agencies, consulting, or land management organizations. Experience as instructor of record for undergraduate field or laboratory courses. - Overtime Status Exempt: Not eligible for overtime - Appointment Type Regular - Salary Information $75k - $85K - Hours per week 40 - Review Date 10/15/2026 - Additional Information: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship. The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check. - About Virginia Tech: description. - For Inquiries: contact info. We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Also remove "For Inquiries" maybe considered application instructions? It's contact info; maybe we can keep as part of description? The instruction says remove application instructions. Likely we should remove the "For Inquiries" block. Also remove "About Virginia Tech" maybe considered boilerplate? It's about the institution; not required but could be considered part of description. The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The "About Virginia Tech" is not exactly those categories; it's general info about the university. Might be okay to keep? But we need to preserve ALL substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. However we need to produce sections only when posting has real specific content. The sections we can use: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content. - About the role: could be the introductory paragraph describing the position, department, role focus. - Responsibilities: teaching and mentoring expectations, research/scholarship/extension expectations, maybe also curriculum development, student mentoring, etc. - Requirements: Required Qualifications. - Qualifications: maybe Preferred Qualifications? But we already have Requirements; maybe Qualifications could be Preferred? However the instruction says use headings exactly as given: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to decide what goes where. We have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could combine both under Requirements? Or separate: Requirements = Required Qualifications; Qualifications = Preferred Qualifications. Skills could be derived from required: strong communication, organizational, interpersonal skills. Also maybe "Professional forestry credentials" etc. But we need to avoid filler. Benefits: Not explicitly stated. No benefits info. So we should not include Benefits section. Pay: Salary Information $75k - $85K. So we can include Pay section. Schedule: Hours per week 40. Also maybe mention Exempt status? Could include schedule. So Schedule section. We also have Review Date 10/15/2026; maybe could be considered metadata; we could fold into a short p or drop. The instruction: "Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it." Review Date is minor metadata; we could include in a short p maybe under About the role or at end. But we should not create a heading for it. We also have Overtime Status Exempt: Not eligible for overtime. Could be part of Schedule or maybe a note. We need to avoid duplication. Let's craft sections:

About the role

The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech invites applications for a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry. Collegiate professors are full faculty members whose responsibilities focus on teaching. The successful candidate will join Virginia’s only four-year Society of American Foresters‑accredited forestry program and will play a highly visible, student‑facing role in sustaining core forestry instruction, field‑based education, professional preparation, and workforce connections. We seek an educator with broad forestry expertise, a strong background in forest operations, and the ability to connect classroom and field laboratory instruction with contemporary forestry practices and employer expectations.

That captures the intro.

Responsibilities

• Carry approximately a 3:3 teaching load, with additional time for field laboratory courses.
• Teach courses such as FREC 2214 Introduction to Land and Field Measurements, FREC 3714 Forest Harvesting, FREC 3724 Forest Boundaries and Roads, FREC 3734 Forest Fiber Supply, FREC 4004 Professional Skills in Natural Resources, FREC 4714 Harvesting Systems Evaluation, and potentially first‑year experience, non‑major forestry, capstone, or study‑abroad courses as needed.
• Contribute to curriculum development and revision, student mentoring, experiential learning, and engagement with forestry employers and stakeholders.
• Allocate approximately 5–10% of effort to pedagogical or disciplinary scholarship and collaborative research.
• Participate in Forestry Extension activities as possible (not required).

That seems good.

Requirements

• Doctorate by time of appointment in forestry, natural resources, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated professional or academic expertise sufficient to teach the listed courses, with emphasis on forest operations.
• Demonstrated commitment to deliver high‑quality, field‑based and experiential undergraduate education.
• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Professional forestry credentials.
• Operational experience, or substantial engagement with forest industry, agencies, consulting, or land management organizations.
• Experience as instructor of record for undergraduate field or laboratory courses.

Skills

We could list skills like communication, organization, interpersonal, teaching, field instruction, curriculum development, etc. But we already covered many in Requirements/Qualifications. However we need a Skills section only if posting has real specific content. The posting mentions "Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills." Also "ability to connect classroom and field laboratory instruction with contemporary forestry practices and employer expectations." Could be considered skills. Let's create a Skills section with those.

Skills

• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal abilities.
• Ability to integrate classroom and field laboratory instruction with current forestry practices and employer expectations.
• Expertise in forest operations and related coursework.

But note we may be duplicating content. However it's okay as long as we preserve info. Might be considered redundant but not prohibited. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Having Skills may be thin; maybe we can omit Skills and incorporate those into Requirements/Qualifications. But we need to follow the allowed headings; we can omit sections if no real specific content. The posting does mention skills explicitly, so we could include Skills. However we already have communication etc in Requirements. Might be okay to keep Skills separate but risk being thin. Let's see if we can combine: maybe we can put Skills under Requirements and not have a separate Skills heading. The instruction says we can use those headings; we are not required to use all. So we can omit Skills if we think it's not needed. The posting does have explicit skill statements, but they are also covered in Requirements. To be safe, we could include Skills but ensure it's not just filler. It contains specific statements: "Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills." and "ability to connect classroom and field laboratory instruction with contemporary forestry practices and employer expectations." That's substantive. Thus we include Skills. Now Benefits: No info, so omit. Pay: Salary Information $75k - $85K. Schedule: Hours per week 40, Exempt status Not eligible for overtime. We could also mention regular appointment type. Let's craft:

Pay

Salary range: $75,000 – $85,000 per year.

Schedule

Full‑time, 40 hours per week; exempt (not eligible for overtime). Regular appointment.

We could also include Review Date maybe as a short p under Schedule or About the role. But instruction says fold minor metadata into a short p or drop it. We could add a short p under About the role: "

Review date: 10/15/2026.

" but that's minor metadata. Let's add it as a short p at the end of About the role maybe. But we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading; we already didn't. Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like "About Virginia Tech", "For Inquiries", EEO statements, etc. We removed those. Check for duplicated lines: we haven't repeated. Now output only HTML fragment. Let's produce:

About the role

The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech invites applications for a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry. Collegiate professors are full faculty members whose responsibilities focus on teaching. The successful candidate will join Virginia’s only four‑year Society of American Foresters‑accredited forestry program and will play a highly visible, student‑facing role in sustaining core forestry instruction, field‑based education, professional preparation, and workforce connections. We seek an educator with broad forestry expertise, a strong background in forest operations, and the ability to connect classroom and field laboratory instruction with contemporary forestry practices and employer expectations.

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