Job Description

• Developing curricula and delivering course material.
• Conducting research, fieldwork, and investigations, and writing up reports.
• Publishing research, attending conferences, delivering presentations, and networking with others in the field.
• Traveling to other universities or academic settings to participate in learning opportunities and gain experience.
• Participating in committee, departmental, and faculty meetings.
• Providing training and mentoring to teaching assistants and junior lecturers.
• Reviewing methods and teaching materials and making recommendations for improvement.
• Assisting with student recruitment, interviews, and academic counseling sessions.
• Contributing to the creation of an environment that promotes growth, equality, and freedom of speech.
• Writing up research results in papers and submitting these papers for publication.
• Writing textbooks or monographs that can be used by other researchers or in graduate courses.
• Submitting grant applications to support their research, and administering grants (e.g., working with budgets, submitting reports) that have been awarded.
• Traveling to conferences to give talks, share research results, and stay abreast of what is currently going on in their field of study.
• Traveling to other universities to give invited colloquium or seminar talks.
• Traveling to other universities or research centers to collaborate on projects with other researchers.
• Reading papers, journals, or books to keep updated on new advances in their area of research.
• Speaking with researchers who are visiting from other universities in order to learn about their work or collaborate on projects.
• Organizing, attending, and speaking in research seminars.
• Supervising a research project or group that may contain several postdocs and students.
• Doing university paperwork related to research (e.g., submitting travel requests, submitting reimbursement requests for travel or research purchases, preparing and submitting reports on how grant or university money was used).