Position Announcement

Continuing-Track Instructor

Department of Business Administration

Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics

University of Delaware

The Department of Business Administration in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware invites applications for a continuing-track instructor position in Management. The starting date for the position is August 2025.

Candidates must possess a Master’s or Ph.D degree in management, human resources, or a related field. Successful candidates will demonstrate the drive and vision to develop an innovative, cutting-edge instructional program. The position involves teaching courses in organizational behavior, human resources, and other management-related subjects, depending on the needs of the department. Teaching load is typically a maximum of eight courses per year with potential reductions for service activities. This is a permanent position, renewable with increasing contract renewal lengths (starting at two years and moving up to five-year renewals).

Founded in 1743, the University of Delaware (udel.edu) combines tradition and innovation, offering students a rich heritage along with the latest in instructional and research technology. Located on an attractive campus in Newark, Delaware, roughly an hour from Philadelphia and Baltimore, and about 2 hours from New York and Washington, D.C., the University is a state-assisted institution with a strong private endowment and selective admission. It is one of the oldest land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institutions in the nation. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies University of Delaware as an R1 research university with very high research activity.

Lerner College has five departments, 42 academic programs, about 4,200 students, and 160 faculty members. Lerner College supports full-time, part-time, on-site corporate, and online MBA programs in addition to MS programs in functional business areas and non-degree executive education programs. Degree programs are fully accredited by the AACSB. For more information on Lerner College, see lerner.udel.edu.

The Department of Business Administration is housed within Lerner College and offers degree programs in management, entrepreneurship, global enterprise management, international business studies, marketing, and operations management. To learn more about the department and its faculty members, please visit lerner.udel.edu/departments/business-administration. The department promotes a collegial, supportive environment, and it seeks candidates who share these values.

Salary and benefits are highly competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, a current curriculum vitae, recent teaching evaluations if applicable, and contact information for at least two reference. Letters of recommendation will be requested upon application submission. Additional information may be requested after initial review of applicants. Submit inquiries, but not application materials or letters of recommendation, to the search committee chair: Dr. Dustin Sleesman (sleesman@udel.edu).

The search committee will begin reviewing applications in October 2024. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. We will conduct preliminary interviews via Zoom.

The University of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity Employer that encourages applications from minority group members and women. The University's Notice of Non-Discrimination can be found at udel.edu/aboutus/legalnotices.html.  Employment offers will be conditioned upon successful completion of a criminal background check. A conviction will not necessarily exclude you from employment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States by the start of their employment at the University of Delaware.