Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Management and Public Service

New York University: NYU - NY:
Robert

F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service:
Academic Affairs Location

New York

Sep 11, 2026

Oct 05, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

The NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is seeking highly qualified candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Management and Public Service position with an expected start date of August 2027. The school seeks candidates who have completed their doctoral program or post-doctoral appointment by the start date or are two years or less into an Assistant Professor position. We will consider candidates from a wide range of fields but are especially interested in candidates with a PhD or DBA in Management / Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Healthcare Management, Organizational Sociology, Personnel Economics, and Public Administration.

Applications should demonstrate a strong record, or evidence of strong potential, for publishing innovative, rigorous research that is relevant to public service organizations and fields in top-rated academic journals.

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $125,000 - $145,000.

NYU Wagner

NYU Wagner's mission is to educate and support the next generation of public service leaders and pursue interdisciplinary and impactful research on complex public interest challenges. We seek candidates with demonstrated excellence in research and teaching, and a commitment to institutional service.

The candidate would be joining Wagner’s 30+ full-time faculty members who are trained in a wide variety of disciplines including: management, healthcare management, sociology, economics, public policy, social entrepreneurship, financial management and public finance, political science, and urban planning. NYU Wagner confers the following degrees: MPA in Public & Nonprofit Management & Policy, MPA in Health Policy & Management, Master of Urban Planning, Online Master of Health Administration, Master of Science in Health Law and Strategy, Master of Science in Public Policy, Executive MPA, PhD in Public Administration, and a variety of dual degrees for NYU graduates and undergraduates.

Our faculty share a commitment to addressing issues of public importance in their teaching and research and to supporting and mentoring colleagues and students. They collaborate with other schools and departments across the university, including the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, School of Global Public Health, Rory Meyers College of Nursing, School of Law, Tandon School of Engineering, and Departments of Sociology, History, Economics, and Politics, among others.

Research & Teaching Areas

We seek scholars whose work addresses how organizations function today and how they will function in the years ahead; how new technologies and systems are reshaping the way work gets done and how people relate to one another inside and across organizations; how people lead with particular grounding in public and cross-sector settings — especially the sectors where many of our students build careers, including healthcare, education, government, advocacy, urban policy, consulting, and impact investing, domestically and internationally.

We welcome scholars who do qualitative, quantitative, experimental, and simulation work. Content areas that are particularly important for our school include:

Innovation and technology:
Research on how to lead, manage, and support innovation and organizational learning amidst accelerated technological changes and new collaboration structures

Leading and negotiating wisely and ethically:
Research on how people – particularly in sectors of interest to us – make decisions, negotiate, and create ethical frameworks in…