The Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management (FERM) invites applications for a 1.0 FTE 9-month tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor position in Forest Management. Incumbent is encouraged to increase his/her base salary by seeking supplemental funding for the summer through other activities related to the approved position description.
The incumbent will complement and enhance the Department's reputation for excellence in research, undergraduate and graduate instruction, and public education and outreach. As a critical member of the forest engineering and forest management faculty, the successful candidate will be responsible for delivering quality instruction and helping to maintain the Society of American Foresters (SAF) accreditation for the Department’s Forestry degree. The incumbent will contribute to the Department’s focal areas that support active management for broad-scale healthy working landscapes: developing and refining active management techniques to improve ecosystem health, resilience, and function, and integrating traditional principles of commodity production with contemporary issues such as ecosystem services, climate change, forest certification, and natural disturbances. It is expected that the incumbent will collaborate with other scientists in the College’s Institute for Working Forest Landscapes. Position Duties: 50% Research. The incumbent’s research will contribute to the Department’s focal areas. Acquisition of external funding is essential to the success of this position. 40% - Instruction. The incumbent will be expected to teach at least three courses per year. Teaching responsibilities may include an integrative senior landscape planning capstone course, a graduate course in forest landscape management, an introductory freshman undergraduate forestry orientation course and/or an upper- division course in forest management planning at the landscape scale. Participation in Forestry Field School is also expected. The incumbent will serve as a graduate advisor for 2-4 students. 10% - Service. Incumbent will serve on 2-4 permanent or ad hoc committees during each academic year, contribute to curriculum development, and provide other Departmental, College, University, and/or professional service as needed. Required Qualifications: (1) An earned PhD by date of hire in forest management, landscape and/or ecosystem modeling, forest planning or closely related field, with a strong focus on managed forest landscapes and associated human impacts. (2) Applicants must demonstrate knowledge of the ecological and physiological processes that control forest productivity, emphasizing applications to large forest landscapes of diverse ownerships. (3) Good interpersonal and communication skills enabling collaboration with a broad spectrum of students, teachers, researchers, and natural resource professionals. (4) Demonstrable commitment to educational equity in a multicultural setting and to advancing the participation of diverse groups and supporting diverse perspectives. Preferred Qualifications: (1) Demonstrated experience with modeling methods applicable to the analysis of working forest landscapes. (2) Evidence of experience in the areas of university-level teaching, research and scholarly work, competitively funded grant writing, and professional service (3) A demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity. To view the posting and apply, go to http://oregonstate.edu/jobs/ and search for Posting #0012069. For full consideration, apply by April 7, 2014. Posting closes May 4, 2014. OSU is an AA/EOE.
