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Employment Type: Permanent Faculty

Vacancy ID: FAC0005666

Salary Range: Salary is competitive and will be commensurate with experience.

Position Summary/Description:

The School of Social Work ( SSW ) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a mid-career/senior level tenured/tenure-track faculty position (9-month) with a primary focus on advanced research methodology and analytic innovation relevant to social work practice and policy.

Consistent with the School of Social Work’s mission to advance equity, transform systems, and improve lives, we seek applicants with a demonstrated capacity to develop, refine, and apply rigorous quantitative and/or mixed methods approaches that inform the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions, programs, or policies. Successful applicants will join a community of active scholars with a vision to be the leading school of social work for accelerating discovery and the translation of knowledge into action. Candidates will be expected to engage in all aspects of faculty life: research, teaching, and service and must have the capacity to obtain and maintain external funding to support their work.

The faculty member’s academic home will be the School of Social Work, where they will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across medicine, education, psychology, public health, data science, and related fields. We are particularly interested in scholars who advance methodological frontiers, such as causal inference, complex systems modeling, implementation science, longitudinal or big-data analytics, community-engaged methods and who can apply these tools to pressing social problems.

This position holds a primary tenure-track/tenured appointment as a faculty within SSW , and as such, candidates should have an exceptional record of externally funded research, publications, and teaching. Tenure-track and tenured faculty within SSW have a teaching courseload of 4 courses per academic year. This position has a standard distribution of effort that includes 67% teaching and instruction, 16.5% research, and 16.5% service and community engagement. The person holding this position will play a leadership role within the School to support faculty research and development; as such, course releases enabling the work will be negotiated with the Dean.

We seek a mid-career or senior methodologist who will teach advanced statistical and advanced research design methods in our doctoral program and provide School-wide methodological leadership, especially in designing, implementing, and evaluating clinical trials and other complex research projects.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Doctoral Teaching

* Design and teach PhD-level courses in advanced statistics (e.g. longitudinal and multilevel modeling, measurement/psychometrics, causal inference, Bayesian statistics) and advanced research design methods

2. Methodological Leadership & Consultation

* Partner with Associate Dean for Research to consult with faculty and students to plan rigorous studies, including clinical trials, cluster-randomized designs, hybrid designs (effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies), and analysis of administrative data

* Lead or contribute to grant applications (e.g. NIH / NSF /Foundations) by developing study designs, randomization plans, power analysis; and by strengthening rigor and reproducibility

* Support protocol development, trial registration, and data safety and monitoring considerations

* Offer faculty and student workshops and ‘methods clinics’ that translate advanced methodologies for applied audiences in social work

* Support school initiatives that enhance the quality of statistical analysis and research rigor.

3. Research

*Maintain an independent, externally funded research program