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Position Description: Environmental Scientist and Program Coordinator, Environmental Analysis Program, Pomona College

Pomona College seeks to hire a senior environmental scientist as a tenured faculty member in the Environmental Analysis Program. Because of the intensely interdisciplinary nature of the program, we are looking for a dynamic colleague whose teaching and research demonstrate their ability to contribute across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences at one of the nation’s premier undergraduate liberal-arts programs. Responsibilities will include teaching four undergraduate courses (one of which will be the required introduction to environmental science) and managerial responsibility for the large and growing Environmental Analysis program. The successful candidate will be considered for the Stephen M. Pauley Professorship in Environmental Analysis with promotion to rank as Coordinator of the Environmental Analysis Program. Applicants should have fundamental training in biology, chemistry, physics, or the geosciences, and a distinguished record of teaching and research in the environmental field. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience working with students from diverse backgrounds.

The committee will begin reviewing applications on November 1, 2013 but will still consider applications received after this date.  Please send a dossier, including (a) a letter of application, (b) curriculum vitae, (c) three letters of recommendation (d) three brief statements on research, teaching, and your vision for the Environmental Analysis program at Pomona College.  The successful candidate must include a sophisticated and detailed discussion of mentoring students from diverse backgrounds, using examples from their own work, in at least one of these statements.  These documents should be sent to Bowman Cutter at Seaver South, room 229 609 N. College Avenue OR uploaded to academicjobsonline.org