Employment Opportunities at Grady

Employment
Opportunities at Grady

Envision your future of educating media’s next generation by joining our Grady College faculty.

Open Positions — Faculty

Knight Chair in Visual Journalism

Minimum Qualifications:

  • A master’s degree or above (e.g., a terminal degree like an MFA or a PhD) is required.

The Knight Chair will make and strengthen connections around visual journalism within the college, as well as between the college and industry—and will enhance the college’s public visibility in visual journalism.

The Knight Chair will develop courses and/or programs focused on leadership, management, and entrepreneurship in visual journalism.

The Knight Chair will teach at least one class per semester, likely in the undergraduate journalism curriculum, with graduate classes a possibility.

Candidates for this position must have a substantial prior record of working in photo or video journalism, or both, with an emphasis on multimedia publishing.

Assistant Professor in Entertainment and Media Studies

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Ph.D. in Mass Communication, or related area

The Department of Entertainment and Media Studies seeks applicants who take a critical, cultural, historical and/or qualitative approach to innovative study of television processes and cultures across screens. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

This position carries a 2/2 teaching load. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in specific areas of expertise, teaching responsibilities will include 1-2 theoretical, methodological and/or substantive required core courses for majors. Mentoring of graduate students, direction of theses and dissertations, and service on department, college and university committees is expected.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Minimum Qualifications:

  • A master’s degree or above (e.g., a terminal degree like an MFA or a PhD) is required.

The Clinical Assistant Professor will teach undergraduate classes in the College’s Sports Media Certificate program and in a new master’s program being developed by UGA’s Carmical Sports Media Institute. The Sports Media Certificate prepares students for careers in sports journalism and/or communications. Graduates of the six-course program work in roles ranging from beat reporters to local TV producers to media-relations professionals to play-by-play announcers to team-side digital hosts and social media producers. All courses are designed to help students develop knowledge and skills in reporting, writing and producing visual-forward storytelling about sports – anchored in journalism fundamentals and ethics.

The Clinical Assistant Professor in Sports Media will also support the Carmical Sports Media Institute’s extracurricular experiential-learning initiatives. These include a partnership with The Associated Press through which students have traveled internationally, with faculty mentors, to cover two Paralympic Summer Games and a Women’s World Cup as credentialed writers and photojournalists.

 

Lecturer in Advertising and Public Relations

Minimum Qualifications:

  • A master’s degree or above (e.g., a terminal degree like an MFA or a PhD) is required.

The Lecturer in Advertising and Public Relations will be teaching multiple sections of our required writing course, Public Relations Communication, with the possibility of teaching other undergraduate core courses as needed. The goal of this course is to teach students to communicate effectively via multiple communication platforms with an array of stakeholders and audiences at the local, national, and international levels. Students should leave with an understanding of how to strategically create relevant messages for diverse audiences and for a variety of purposes: media relations, social, and in-house channels.

The University of Georgia is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or protected veteran status.

Additional Information

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Perspectives

“I didn’t have a lot of people who were like me in the classroom, so now I am able to be an example for students in the classroom to see that there is excellence at every level from a person who is a first gen student.”

Denetra Walker

assistant professor, journalism

Perspectives

“I am always asking ‘what can we understand better to make communication more effective, more ethical, and how can we help organizations learn from their experience in order to not just protect their reputation, but more importantly, protect the health and safety of their people?’”

Yan Jin

C. Richard Yarbrough Professor in Crisis Communication Leadership

Perspectives

“I am most comfortable prepping others. I like working behind the scenes, and I get a natural high from working with young people to help them achieve their goals.”

Joseph Watson, Jr.

Carolyn Caudell Tieger Professor of Public Affairs Communications

Perspectives

“My goal for my students is that they will learn to brainstorm and prototype ideas rapidly, and push the edges of their own creative abilities. I want them to go out into the world with the ability to tell amazing stories in complicated ways.”

Shira Chess

Associate Professor, EMST

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