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Bates Colleges Department of Psychology invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position in clinical psychology, to begin August 1, 2025. We welcome any research specialization that engages with psychopathology or clinical topics. We seek an outstanding scholar with strong commitments to excellent undergraduate teaching and mentorship in a liberal arts context. Candidates must hold the Ph.D. in clinical psychology or a closely related field in clinical science, or expect to complete the degree requirements before August of 2025. State psychologist licensure is not required, but we will support a colleagues pursuing it.

Bates Department of Psychology is a vibrant and collegial department, committed to student engagement with psychology as a part of a general liberal arts education. This position carries a standard five-course annual teaching load. (Laboratory sections count as 0.5 courses.) Bates also supports new faculty with a course reduction in the first year of teaching.

The successful candidate will share our enthusiasm for fostering students ability and motivation to engage in scientific inquiry and to apply the resulting knowledge. This new colleague will teach a 200-level course in clinical psychology, at least one upper-level seminar in the candidates area of specialty, and will be in the rotation for our introductory Principles of Psychology course. As appropriate, courses may include a community-engaged component (e.g., field placement). The Harward Center for Community Partnerships works with faculty teaching courses with community-engaged components to develop connections with community partners. Faculty also teach in the general education curriculum, provide academic advising, and mentor student theses. Successful candidates will be expected to develop a signature and independent scholarly program. Faculty also take part in our system of shared governance.

Bates students come from a diversity of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds, and we are committed to each students success. Thus, candidates may choose to provide evidence of their skills and experience supporting a diverse student body either in a separate, additional document or integrated into the teaching and research statements. We encourage applications from individuals from historically marginalized groups and from those who may have followed non-traditional pathways to higher education due to societal, economic, or academic circumstances. Applicants may choose to describe the breadth of their teaching repertoire, for example, how they have worked with, or plan to work with, historically underrepresented, first-generation, and marginalized student populations.

Bates College is a residential liberal arts college in Lewiston, Mainea diverse and growing community roughly 45 minutes from the states largest city (Portland), 2 hours north of Boston, and 4 hours south of Montreal. Faculty scholarship and creative work at Bates are robustly supported by start-up packages, internal grants, and a well-staffed external grants office. Community-engaged learning and study abroad are both broadly encouraged and supported; pedagogical development and innovation is further buttressed by a new Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning.

Educational access and racial justice are central to Bates history and mission and our faculty-led initiatives reflect this commitment .

Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled. Applications should include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and a copy of the candidates graduate transcript (an unofficial transcript will suffice). A statement of teaching philosophy that describes how the applicant meets Bates standards of excellence in terms of inclusive and evidence-based pedagogy is also required, as is a research statement, with a sample publication, that speaks to the current and future promise of a candidates professional work. The search committee will request letters of recommendation from three referees for short-listed candidates. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and verification of degree. Candidates must hold the Ph.D. in clinical psychology or a closely related field in clinical science, or expect to complete the degree requirements before August of 2025. State psychologist licensure is not required, but we will support a colleagues pursuing it.