Northeastern
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Open Rank Clinical Professor, School of Nursing, Fall River, MA

Pay
$101,000 – $134,000 per year
Location
Fall River, MA
Listed
4 days ago

About the Opportunity

The School of Nursing at Northeastern University invites applications for multiple full-time, 52 week, non-tenure-track, open-rank clinical faculty positions (Assistant Clinical Professor, Associate Clinical Professor, or Clinical Professor) based at our Fall River, Massachusetts campus, with expertise in medical-surgical nursing. Faculty will teach in the undergraduate prelicensure nursing program across didactic, laboratory, simulation, and clinical settings. Anticipated start dates are July 2027, August 2027 and January 2028.

Clinical faculty are supported through mentoring and Northeastern's faculty development resources, including the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development and the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research (CATLR).

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include teaching undergraduate prelicensure nursing courses; developing and evaluating curriculum aligned with the AACN Essentials and the NCLEX-RN test plan; advising and mentoring students; and participating in school, college, and university service. Qualified candidates must be prepared to work with global student populations.

Faculty will also

  • Teach medical-surgical nursing in classroom, laboratory, simulation, and clinical settings.

Qualifications

  • Doctoral degree (PhD, DNP, EdD, or related doctorate) in nursing or a related field by appointment start date. Candidates without a terminal degree will be considered on a case-by-case basis; the expectation is that the terminal degree will be completed within two years of hire.
  • Master's degree in nursing (MSN) by appointment start date.
  • An active, unencumbered Registered Nurse license in Massachusetts by appointment start date.
  • Clinical expertise in one or more of the content areas listed above.
  • Preference for expertise in prelicensure nursing education and for specialty certification (e.g., CNE, CMSRN or CCRN), but not a requirement.
  • Appointment at the rank of Associate Clinical Professor or higher requires at least 5 years of academic or equivalent experience

Additional Information

Interested candidates should apply here with a curriculum vitae, a cover letter identifying the content area(s) of interest, a teaching statement addressing the prompt below, a copy of their RN license, and names and contact information for at least three professional references from whom letters of reference can be solicited as needed. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, as they arrive.

Successful faculty at Northeastern will be dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of research and teaching excellence and a commitment to fostering belonging in the university community. Thus, strong candidates for this faculty position will have the expertise, knowledge, and skills to build their research, pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment. Please indicate how your expertise, knowledge, and skills have prepared you to contribute to this work with a written statement addressing the following prompt:

Teaching statement (1 page)

Please summarize your past instructional and mentorship experiences, your pedagogical philosophy, your plans/goals for teaching in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences (including existing and proposed courses), and your strategies for teaching and mentoring global student populations.

  • Position Type
  • Academic
  • Additional Information

Additional information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.

Pay and benefits

Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- as well as commuting & transportation.

Pay Range

52-week Salary Ranges: Assistant Clinical Professor: $101,000.00 - $134,000.00 | Associate Clinical Professor: $125,000.00 - $142,000.00 | Clinical Professor: $137,000.00 - $156,000.00

With the pay range(s) shown above, the starting salary will depend on several factors, which may include your education, experience, location, knowledge and expertise, and skills as well as a pay comparison to similarly-situated employees already in the role. Salary ranges are reviewed regularly and are subject to change.

About Northeastern

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations-in Boston; Arlington, Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami; London; Portland, Maine; Oakland; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant-are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs- in a variety of on-campus and online formats-lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences has over 250 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial and biomedical sciences and supports the University's mission of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs.

The School of Nursing (SON) educates nurses across four campuses: Boston, Burlington, and Fall River, Massachusetts, and Charlotte, North Carolina. SON programs span the BSN, Accelerated BSN (ABSN), DNP, nurse practitioner specialties, and PhD. Grounded in Northeastern's experiential learning model, the SON prepares practice-ready nurses and nurse leaders through rigorous didactic, laboratory, simulation, and clinical education.

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