Visiting Assistant Professor of Management​/Leadership

Overview

University of Puget Sound
Visiting Assistant Professor of Management/Leadership
Job

Location:

Business & Leadership
Full/Part Time:
Full Time

Faculty Posting Details

Appointment:
School of Business and Leadership, full-time one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position; begins Fall Term 2026.

• Fall 2026:
  Teach two upper-division leadership courses and one upper-division management course
• Spring 2027:
  Teach two principles of management courses and one upper-division leadership or management course
• All teaching includes projects stimulating independent critical thinking, promoting effective written and oral communication skills, facilitating experiential learning, and developing problem solving.
• The standard teaching assignment is three courses per semester.
• Other duties include departmental service.

The University of Puget Sound is an undergraduate liberal arts college with small classes providing individual attention.

• Ph.D. or D.B.A. (ABD considered) in management, leadership, or other business discipline.
• Will consider Ph.D. in appropriate liberal arts disciplines related to management/leadership.
• Commitment to undergraduate teaching and liberal arts education.

Final date to receive applications: To ensure full consideration, interested candidates are encouraged to submit application materials no later than February 27, 2025.

Rank:
Visiting Assistant Professor

Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Faculty salaries at the University of Puget Sound are based on a common salary scale based on experience. Assistant Professor salaries for  begin at $83,576 annualized for an Assistant Professor without a terminal degree in their field in their first year of full-time postdoctoral teaching through $94,086 annualized based on experience.

Puget Sound offers a generous benefits package. For more information, visit:
Summary of 2026 Benefits for Faculty

Puget Sound has a well-established Shared Faculty Appointments Policy, https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).-appointments

The University of Puget Sound is located in Tacoma, Washington, a vibrant, diverse mid-sized urban port city. Within, and near, Tacoma there is ready access to urban, rural, and natural areas as well as opportunities to participate in a wide variety of cultural activities.

Puget Sound is a member of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC), Greater Washington State https:///

The School of Business and Leadership provides students with an innovative business education that prepares them for success as leaders in a complex and dynamic global environment.

The School fulfills its mission by:

• teaching business fundamentals in a program strongly embedded in the Liberal Arts.
• offering a core curriculum that focuses on management, marketing, finance, accounting, law, and ethics.
• emphasizing critical thinking, effective written and oral communication, insightful problem solving, thorough case analysis, and sound research methods.
• offering majors in business administration, international business, and the Business Leadership Program.
• promoting off-campus experiences including internships, mentoring, international work and study abroad, field research and experiential learning.
• striving for faculty excellence in teaching, advising, professional development, and University and community service.

By executing its mission, the School strengthens its ties to other academic units on campus, and helps to fulfill the overall mission of the university.

• We acknowledge the richness of commonalities and differences we share as a university community; the intrinsic worth of all who work and study here; that education is enhanced by the investigation of and the reflection upon multiple perspectives.
• We aspire to create respect for and appreciation of all persons as a key characteristic of our campus community; to increase the diversity of all parts of our University community through commitment to diversity in our recruitment and retention efforts; to foster a spirit of openness to active engagement among all members of our campus community.
• We act to achieve an environment that welcomes and supports diversity; to ensure full educational opportunity for all who teach and learn here; to prepare effectively citizen-leaders for a pluralistic world.

Puget Sound is committed to an environment that welcomes and supports diversity. We seek diversity of identity, thought, perspective, and background in our students, faculty, and staff. To learn more please visit: http:///

Applicants submitted without the required attachments will not be considered.

• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of Interest
• Teaching statement - including a list of management and leadership courses and special topics courses you would be eager to teach, and your…