Tenure-Track Faculty Position in the Natural Sciences (Environmental Focus)

The Mathematics, Analytics, Science, and Technology division at Babson College invites applications for a tenure-track position in the natural sciences with an environmental science focus for an academic year 2024-2025 start date, ideally August 15, 2024, but Jan 1, 2025 would be negotiable. A successful applicant will show a passion for high quality undergraduate teaching of non-majors (business students), a promising research pipeline, and a desire to contribute to Babson’s mission through service on campus.

We encourage and support professional development by providing manageable teaching loads (four face-to-face sections per year for all Assistant Professors), small class sizes, excellent technological support, and research funding. Teaching responsibilities will vary and may include the foundation science courses (multi-science discipline courses with hands-on labs) and our innovative, co-taught intermediate Socio-Ecological Systems courses, which pair a natural scientist with a social scientist to teach integrated sustainability and systems thinking. We have limited science lab research space, but value collaboration across disciplines and between institutions.

We encourage applications from faculty at all career stages as appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level is possible for experienced faculty. Babson faculty value the diverse backgrounds and perspectives our colleagues bring to our community, and we strongly encourage members of groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields to apply for this position.

Materials should be submitted as soon as possible, and review of materials will begin on February 19, 2024.

Candidate Success Factors:
The successful candidate will join our division which includes nineteen full-time faculty and several part-time instructors. We seek a colleague who:

• Is passionate about teaching and innovative curriculum development.

• Brings depth in scholarly expertise that will add to the intellectual community of the College.

• Is a team player, willing to lead and collaborate with faculty from multiple disciplines to co-design and co-teach courses in an integrated, cross-disciplinary context.

• Is eager to enhance the college’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

• Has earned a Ph.D. (or an equivalent terminal degree) in a natural science discipline with a strong connection to environmental science and/or climate science, or energy systems.

Application Submission:
Electronic applications should be submitted here; no paper application will be accepted. Please include: (1) a cover letter; (2) a current curriculum vitae; (3) a brief (1-2 page) research statement discussing prior work, future plans and required support; (4) a brief (1-2 page) statement of teaching philosophy, including a short statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom. Candidates who advance in the application process will be asked to provide three reference letters.