Position: Forestry Assistant/Associate Professor

Status: Full-Time/Nine-Month Appointment, Exempt

Start Date: Fall Semester 2024

Department: Forestry

Reports to: Dean of Faculty

Salary: $50,000.00 - $62,000.00

College Background:

Paul Smith’s College is a small, private baccalaureate and associate degree-granting institution located on a 170-acre campus on the shores of Lower St. Regis Lake, within the 6 million-acre Adirondack Park of northern New York State. The College owns 14,000 acres of adjacent lands composed of forest and lakes. The College is committed to providing its students with an outstanding undergraduate experience through engaged teaching, experiential learning, and personal attention.

Our programs in Forestry provide an extensive “hands-on” field experience. Students utilize and participate in the management of a variety of educational and service sites including active timber-harvest areas, a commercial sugarbush, and numerous forest research and demonstration sites.

Description:

The Assistant/Associate Professor of Forestry (depending on qualifications) primary focus is enriching and supporting our dynamic forestry program.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Teach Introduction to Forestry.

• Teach Woodlot and Forest Management.

• Teach Understory Flora.

• Participate in student advising.

• Conducting research or outreach that addresses regional forestry issues involving student participation.

• Working with student clubs and other community engagement associated with the program.

• Potential assignment to assist with field for other courses.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in forestry or a related field.

• Demonstrated experience with teaching forestry topics.

• Record of productive research/outreach and professional development.

• Training and practical experience in forestry.

• A strong commitment to teaching and providing personal guidance to undergraduate students.

• The capacity to teach a variety of courses and pursue research/outreach interests in forestry, and professional involvement with the community.

• Candidates with a Ph.D. in forestry are highly preferred.

• Broad experience, especially with GIS, general ecology, and/or wetlands, is highly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience teaching introductory and advanced courses meeting the needs of students with a wide range of backgrounds, interests, and abilities, is preferred.

• Candidates that demonstrate interest in facilitating career success of students through developmental advising and involvement in student chapters of professional societies are highly preferred.

Paul Smith’s College values diversity in the College community and seeks to assure equal opportunity through its continued Affirmative Action program. Offers of employment are made only to candidates authorized to work in the United States. EOE/AA/M/F/D/V