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Covenant College lists this Tenure Track Faculty Position: Poverty and Development opportunity in lookout mountain, Georgia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Covenant College Job Posting
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Poverty and Development
Covenant College has a beautiful 400-acre campus that stretches atop Lookout Mountain, Georgia, on the Georgia/Tennessee border, just outside of Chattanooga. The community is a hub of vibrant cultural, educational, business, high-tech, and entertainment activity and is an affordable place to live or raise a family. The campus enjoys incredible vistas of the Smoky Mountains and the Cumberland Plateau with views that span across several states. The region is widely known as an outdoor recreational paradise for campers, boaters, cyclists, climbers, cavers, and hikers, all while being conveniently located within two hours of Atlanta, Nashville, and Knoxville.
The Department of Economics and Development at Covenant College, an agency of the Presbyterian Church in America and an academically rigorous Christian college emphasizing the liberal arts in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position beginning July 1, 2027. Rank and compensation will be commensurate with experience.
While remaining firmly committed to its foundational commitments with respect to poverty alleviation, the college has adopted a new Poverty and Development Program, which equips students to seek creative solutions to poverty in a much wider range of settings and sectors than ever before.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Teach a variety of undergraduate courses related to poverty and development that reflect both the current needs of the department and the professor's particular areas of expertise and interest.
Teach multiple sections of a junior-level core curriculum course focused on faithful engagement with issues related to poverty and migration.
Work with partner organizations to create outstanding, summer-long field experiences for undergraduate students.
Engage in research, scholarship, and other professional activities.
Mentor and advise undergraduate students.
Participate in the life of the campus community and faculty governance.
Qualifications:
Ph.D. in Community Development, Intercultural Studies, Public Administration, or a related field in the Social Sciences from a regionally accredited institution by July 1, 2027, preferred. Candidates with Master's Degrees will also be considered.
Field experience in facilitation, program design, or evaluation in a range of cross-cultural settings
Demonstrated excellence in teaching
Enthusiasm for working with undergraduates in applied, cross-cultural research
Commitment to the mission of Covenant College
Interested and qualified candidates should send the following documentation to Dr. Collin Messer:
Letter of Interest indicating teaching and research interests
Curriculum Vitae
A Testimony of Christian Faith and Experience
Philosophy of Christian Higher Education
A Response to Westminster Confession indicating agreement, and any scruples, with rationales, with the Confession
Dr. Collin Messer
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Covenant College
14049 Scenic Highway
Lookout Mountain, GA 30750
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lookout mountain, GA, 30750, US
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