CYFS Adjunct Pool - Academic Year 2025-2026; External

CYFS Adjunct Pool - Academic Year 2025‑2026 (External) Please see Special Instructions for more details.

Please submit Cover Letter, Resume/CV and 3 Professional References (contact name, phone number and email address). In your Cover Letter please specify which course(s) you are interested in teaching, what makes you qualified to teach these courses and evidence of teaching/training effectiveness. Please also note if you wish to teach in person and/or online.

NOTE: The applicants for the Child, Youth, & Family Studies Adjunct Posting will be in an open pool for the academic year. There are no guarantees that CYFS will be hiring for any particular course. Review of applications occurs as new sections or instructors are needed. If you have not been contacted about your application, it will remain active in the pool throughout the academic year.

Proposed Start Date
09/16/2025

Working Title
CYFS Adjunct Pool - Academic Year 2025‑2026 (External)

Department
240401 - CFA Child and Family Studies

Position Number
D97733

Representation
AP - AFT, Local 3571

The PSU School of Social Work (SSW) envisions a world where all people lead fulfilling lives in affirming, just and equitable communities. Rooted in justice, relationship, and community collaboration, PSU SSW advances knowledge and creates social change through teaching, research, practice, and advocacy. Our core values and beliefs include collective care, responsive learning, knowledge that serves, community partnership, and social change.

The SSW provides accessible interdisciplinary educational opportunities and actively works to bring about structural change through its teaching, training, workforce development, research, and advocacy. The SSW includes three undergraduate majors:
Human Services, Child, Youth, and Family Studies, and BSW, and two graduate programs: MSW and PhD.

This position is open to instructors interested in teaching in Portland, OR and/or online. The Child, Youth, and Family Studies program (CYFS) uses a justice‑minded orientation to understand both the history and contemporary social positions of children, youth, and families. The curriculum centers dynamic analysis of race, class, gender, ability, sexualities, and development as factors shaping the experiences of children, youth and families.

CYFS is an undergraduate program located in the PSU School of Social Work (SSW). We are committed to hiring a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce. Persons with lived experience from communities of color, women, persons with disabilities, low‑income communities, veterans, LGBTQ community members and members of Oregon’s nine federally recognized Indian tribes are encouraged to apply.

M.S. or M.A. in a field closely related to children, youth, and families (e.g., education, sociology, human development, psychology, youth studies, family studies, social work, early childhood); OR a B.A. or B.S. and demonstrated teaching or practice experience.

We primarily seek applicants who have expertise in critical theory or epistemologies, experiential or emancipatory pedagogies, writing instruction, aging in families, social policy, child life, and related aspects of the Child, Youth, and Family Studies curriculum (including courses in family of origin and bias recognition, social justice and anti‑oppression work, family theory, stress and coping, child life, family law and policy, and related courses).

CFLE credentialing is desired. Ideal candidates will also provide evidence of their experience working effectively around issues of social justice, diversity, and inclusion, with demonstrated capacity to meet the needs of underrepresented students and other marginalized groups.

• Creates an environment that acknowledges, encourages and celebrates differences.
• Functions and communicates effectively and respectfully within the context of varying beliefs, behaviors, orientations, identities and cultural backgrounds.
• Seeks opportunities to gain experience working and collaborating in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive settings with a…