Teaching Assistant Professor In Interpersonal Or Organizational Communication

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit

The Department of Communication is one of 44 departments and curricula in the College of Arts & Sciences. As the largest unit on campus, the College of Arts & Sciences forms the academic core of the Carolina experience.

Through teaching, research, and service, the Department of Communication addresses how communication functions to create, sustain, and transform personal life, social relations, political institutions, economic organizations, and cultural and aesthetic conventions in society. Recognized for significant contributions to the profession, University, state, and nation the Department houses a PhD program, a major in Communication, an interdisciplinary major in Cultural Studies, and a minor in Writing for the Screen and Stage. It serves as the intellectual home for 28 faculty members, 45 graduate students, and over 700 undergraduates.

The Department's doctoral program offers a theoretically rich, interdisciplinary, problem-based approach to education and research that enables graduate students to define their own research in response to the changing demands of a constantly evolving communicative and cultural world. The Department's undergraduate major features four structured concentrations: interpersonal and organizational communication; media and technology studies and production; performance studies; and rhetoric. Each concentration offers the Department's majors, as well as the hundreds of pan-University non-majors who seek out our classes, a set of critical capacities that contribute to an engaged, creative, and critical 21st century citizen.

Position Summary

This position is located in the Communication Department within the College of Arts and Sciences. We are seeking an innovative and dynamic teacher to teach courses that reflect our program's investments in interpersonal and organizational communication as part of everyday life and as critical components of advocacy and social influence.

Candidates will teach a 3/3 load (six total), five of which must be undergraduate courses that meet the Communication Beyond Carolina degree requirement. Such courses must meet a minimum threshold of 2/3 course content and/or assignments that include the practice of oral communication (broadly defined). The department currently offers multiple courses with this designation (e.g., Small Group Communication, Persuasion) and is currently adding the designation to more of our current Interpersonal Communication and Organizational Communication course offerings. Candidates will also have the opportunity to develop new courses based on their own teaching and research expertise.

Faculty in Interpersonal Communication focus on the relational dimensions of social problems. Faculty in the area use critical and historical analysis, ethnography, discourse analysis, and conversational analysis, among others. Major areas of teaching include interpersonal communication, persuasion,, gender communication, family communication, race and social discourse, and identity and communication.

Faculty in Organizational Communication use a critically-informed, engaged approach to understand everyday organizational life from a communication perspective. Faculty in the area employ multi-level, multi-method analyses of organizing across work, community, and social change contexts, with a sustained focus on communication as constitutive of organizing. Major areas of teaching include globalization, labor, work and identity, power and resistance, ethics, leadership, democracy and citizenship, and gender, race and class to create constructive organizational change. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be affiliated with the Program for Public Discourse and will work with other faculty around campus who are also addressing the Communication Beyond Carolina needs.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Ph.D. (or conferral during the 2023-2024 academic year) in Communication or a related discipline. Teaching experience at the undergraduate level.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

Qualifications include the following: Ph.D. (or conferral during the 2023-2024 academic year) in Communication or a related discipline with a specialization in Interpersonal Communication or Organizational Communication is required.

Candidates should have a record and/or demonstrated potential for, outstanding teaching at the undergraduate level, preferably with experience incorporating oral practices into their teaching. Interest in teaching courses related to small group communication, persuasion, dialogue and deliberation, democracy and democratic decision-making, civic participation, multi-stakeholder decision-making, community collaboration, or public participant processes preferred.

Special Physical/Mental Requirements Campus Security Authority Responsibilities

This position is designated as a Campus Security Authority in accordance with the Clery Act. This position will be required to report Clery crimes to the Clery Compliance Manager and complete annual training about reporting responsibilities.

Special Instructions

Applicants will be reviewed beginning Monday, October 2, 2023.

The Department of Communication at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for the position of Teaching Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) in Interpersonal Communication or Organizational Communication. These positions are full-time fixed-term three-year appointments that are renewable and eligible for promotion in rank. We are looking to hire for a January 1, 2024 start date, but will consider applicants who can only begin July 1, 2024.

• Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, teaching philosophy, and the names of three references. Amongst those materials, applicants should discuss their experience, investment in and approaches to teaching courses that focus on oral forms of communication and practice with an eye toward addressing contentious societal issues (broadly defined). Other materials may also be included in the application packet including evidence of teaching effectiveness, published works on pedagogical practice, and/or public engagement work that highlights the candidate's investment in oral practices.

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