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Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Lecturer Position

Job description

The Applied Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston

(https://www.umb.edu/umasslinguistics) invites applications for a part-time, benefitted Non-Tenure Track Lecturer position (0.5 FTE) starting September 1, 2024. The Lecturer will teach two courses per semester. Contract renewal is based on funding and teaching performance.

Required Qualifications:

• A doctoral degree in Applied Linguistics.
• A minimum of five years of experience teaching ESL/ESOL/SEI.
• A minimum of two years of graduate-level teaching experience.
• Experience working in K- 12 ELL instruction and/or teacher education for K- 12 ELL instructors.
• Experience providing professional development to in-service teachers working with multilingual students.
• Proficiency/fluency in more than one language.

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success working with diverse student and/or faculty populations.
• Ability to combine theory and practice in classroom instruction.
• Experience developing curricula for ELL educators.
• Experience with educator professional development grants.
• Experience coaching educators working with multilingual students.

Application Instructions

To apply, please submit the following:

• Cover letter that briefly explains the candidate’s interest in, and fit with, the position.
• Curriculum vitae.
• Personal statement addressing the candidate’s teaching experience and teaching philosophy.
• At least two letters of recommendation that address the teaching and academic credentials.
• Candidates may also submit other evidence of teaching excellence, such as student letters, teaching awards, sample syllabi, or other relevant materials.

Application review will start March 29^th until the position is filled. For more information, please contact panagiota.gounari@umb.edu.

UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

UMass Boston is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact HRDirect@umb.edu or 617-287-5150.