Employment Opportunities at Grady
Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism
The Department of Journalism at Grady College invites applications for the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism, a tenured faculty position at the rank of Associate or full Professor. We seek a health and medical journalist of national or international stature to direct and expand the professional master’s degree program currently in its 13th year of teaching students to cover health, medicine and the science behind them across emerging and established media markets, platforms and audiences.
The College values diversity in experience, background and research perspectives and is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for teaching and learning.
The Knight Chair instructs, supervises and advises graduate students as they report and produce news stories for the College’s laboratory newsroom as well as for professional media organizations.
Digital news gathering skills and the ability to teach the fundamentals of health and medical reporting and journalism, including the basics of data-based reporting, are essential. Candidates for the rank of professor must document a successful career in evidence-based health and medical journalism and hold a terminal degree. Candidates for the rank of associate professor must document exceptional professional accomplishments in evidence-based health and medical journalism, hold a master’s degree and be approved for a terminal degree exception before hire.
Applications from women and individuals from groups underrepresented in the profession and higher education are strongly encouraged. Screening of applications will begin in mid-October 2022, with the chair holder joining the faculty of Grady College in August 2023. Posted May 2022.
See job posting 259567 at ugajobsearch.com for details.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence and
Director of the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program
The Department of Journalism invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant, associate or full professor, to begin in August 2022 as the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence and Director of the MFA program in Narrative Nonfiction.
The College values diversity in experience, background and research perspectives and is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for teaching and learning.
The person hired for this position will direct the college’s low-residency MFA program in Narrative Nonfiction, a two-year degree that trains participants to write nonfiction books or long-form articles in narrative style for national and international publishers and/or to teach writing at the university level. The professor will teach in the MFA program and in the undergraduate journalism curriculum.
Candidates for this position must have success in writing and publishing narrative nonfiction and in working with and leading communities of writers. Candidates must have at least five years of journalism industry experience as a writer or editor. A master’s degree or above (a terminal degree such as an MFA or PhD) is required. Candidates who hold a master’s degree must document exceptional professional accomplishments and be approved for a terminal-degree exception before hire.
Screening of applications will begin May 1, 2022 and continue until the position is filled. Posted April 2022.
See job posting 250651 at ugajobsearch.com for details.
Professor
Department of Advertising and Public Relations
The successful candidate will teach two courses a semester from a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in advertising and related topics such as media strategy and activation, digital advertising, social media analytics, advertising research/brand planning, advertising management, and/or campaigns. They will also conduct a rigorous research program in advertising while continuing to serve as a leader in their discipline, as well as provide service to the department, college, and university through service on committees and graduate student supervision.
Candidate should have a track record of a committed research focus in advertising. They must have an outstanding record in externally funded research and/or scholarly advertising publications. Candidates must have a teaching and research concentration in and commitment to advertising as an academic enterprise. A successful candidate must have a thorough grounding in theory, research, and practice. An ability and commitment to mentor, develop and direct a diverse group of graduate students is also required.
The applicant should be qualified for tenure on appointment at the full professor level (https://provost.uga.edu/resources/documents/Grady2020.pdf ). To be eligible for tenure upon appointment, candidates must be appointed as an associate or full professor, have been tenured at a prior institution, and bring a demonstrably national reputation to the institution. Candidates must be approved for tenure upon appointment before hire.
See job posting F0926p at ugajobsearch.com for more details.
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.