Institute for Energy Studies - Non-Tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

Institute For Energy Studies - Non-Tenure Track Faculty Vacancy Pool

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The Institute for Energy Studies (IES) is a multi-college collaboration at WWU, which is designed to meet growing demand, from students and from Washington's growing clean energy economy, for interdisciplinary education related to the science, technology, policy and business aspects of human conversion and use of energy. Our energy programs are designed to provide both breadth and depth, with a practical toolkit of technical and analytic skills from classroom and experiential learning.

The IES academic program is unique in the country in offering undergraduate degrees that directly address key energy/climate challenges and their solutions, via hands-on experiential learning, such as our "Campus as a Lab" initiative, preparing graduates to hit the ground running as practitioners and leaders of a clean energy transition. Through efforts of the IES, WWU was named one of only twelve institutions globally by the U.S. Dept.

of Energy for their first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation. The Institute for Energy Studies supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from under-represented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The Institute for Energy Studies maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in temporary, non-tenure-track teaching positions. The positions are usually part-time, with occasional opportunities for full-time appointments. Positions may become available at any time and are typically filled on a quarterly basis. The Institute and the University value teaching and seek exemplary teachers who are current in their field, who will actively engage students in their own learning, and who will follow University guidelines regarding course objectives, content, instructional format, and level of challenge.

We seek individuals with teaching interests in fields relevant to the clean energy transition to a decarbonized Northwest energy system, such as energy efficiency, energy system science, net-zero/low-carbon energy planning and management, local energy/climate policies and strategies, enterprise energy management, or urban/community energy planning. We expect students to be given feedback on their course work and examinations, and that adjunct faculty members will be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours.

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse students, faculty and staff, and commitment to cultivating learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds

• Recent, relevant industry or government experience
• Master's degree or higher in a related discipline
• Successful teaching experience

Salary: $1,800-$2,600 per credit, commensurate with experience and qualifications

Application Instructions: A cover letter and curriculum vitae are required and…