What are the responsibilities and job description for the Open Rank Faculty Member - Marketing position at Elizabethtown College?
The Marketing program in the School of Business at Elizabethtown College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor or Assistant Teaching Professor (full-time, nine-month position; rank determined based on qualification) preferred start date is August 2025. This position will be a face-to-face (in-person) classroom role.
The successful candidate will be a dynamic, student-focused teacher, capable of and dedicated to growing a new marketing program. Courses include Principles of Marketing, and a selection of the following: Sales Management, Retail Management, Digital Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing Management, and others as needed, with the opportunity to develop new courses across marketing areas. The College is looking to hire diverse faculty to support our increasingly diverse student body. The School and faculty are committed to preparing students for lifelong learning, service, and professional outcomes. Approximately 30% of Elizabethtown College students are first-generation college students.
The successful candidate will be a dynamic, student-focused teacher, capable of and dedicated to growing a new marketing program. Courses include Principles of Marketing, and a selection of the following: Sales Management, Retail Management, Digital Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing Management, and others as needed, with the opportunity to develop new courses across marketing areas. The College is looking to hire diverse faculty to support our increasingly diverse student body. The School and faculty are committed to preparing students for lifelong learning, service, and professional outcomes. Approximately 30% of Elizabethtown College students are first-generation college students.
Job Duties
The School of Business is committed to providing students with cutting-edge business skills, a personalized learning experience, and strong ties to the business community. The candidate is expected to engage in outreach activities with local organizations, serve on the school and college-wide committees, advise, and mentor students, and engage in curricular review and ongoing professional development. Depending on whether the candidate is tenure track or teaching professor track, the candidate would be expected to pursue an active research agenda, which takes a broad view of scholarship (discovery, integration, application, teaching and learning), and/or to engage in program development, corporate outreach, and other such professionally-oriented activities. The typical teaching load is three, four-credit courses in each of the fall and spring semesters, and faculty are expected to involve students in high-impact practices, such as research and internships, whenever possible.
Required Qualifications
Qualified candidates must hold at least an MBA, with a specialization in marketing, marketing analytics, or related business disciplines. Relevant professional experience is preferred. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate teaching excellence, a commitment to professional development and growth, a service mindset, and a commitment to collaborative and collegial processes. They are also expected to uphold the values of Elizabethtown College and have a demonstrated commitment to undergraduate liberal arts teaching.
For full consideration include a cover letter, resume/CV, statement of teaching philosophy and include contact information for (3) individuals who will be contacted electronically to provide letters of recommendation. Also, if you have ACT153 clearances consisting of PA Child Abuse, PA State Police and FBI, completed within the last five years, please upload along with your other documents.
Please note, due to payroll limitations the individual hired for this position will need to reside in one of the following states: PA, DE, MD, NJ, VT
For full consideration include a cover letter, resume/CV, statement of teaching philosophy and include contact information for (3) individuals who will be contacted electronically to provide letters of recommendation. Also, if you have ACT153 clearances consisting of PA Child Abuse, PA State Police and FBI, completed within the last five years, please upload along with your other documents.
Please note, due to payroll limitations the individual hired for this position will need to reside in one of the following states: PA, DE, MD, NJ, VT
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About Elizabethtown College
Located in southeastern Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown College offers its 1,800 students more than 75 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its commitment to “Educate for Service,” Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives, and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose and leadership as global citizens. For more information, consult www.etown.edu.
Elizabethtown College is committed to valuing and fostering the diversity reflected in our life together and in the world beyond our campus. We strive to ensure that the members of the community—students, faculty, staff, and administrators—are diverse in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, ability, gender, gender identity and expression, age, and national origin. We also seek to provide our community members, especially our students, with educational opportunities, programs, and services that are multicultural in content and expressive of a diverse life of experiences and worldviews that underrepresented groups bring to the learning environment.
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