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 Marketing. The beginning date for the position is September 2025.

Candidates must possess a Masters’ or Ph.D degree in Marketing. Successful candidates will demonstrate the drive and vision to develop an innovative, cutting-edge instructional program and will be capable of teaching a wide range of marketing courses. Teaching load is typically a maximum of eight courses per year with potential reductions for service. This is a permanent position, renewable with increasing contract renewal lengths (starting at two years and moving up to five-year renewals). There are opportunities for promotion in rank. 

Founded in 1743, the University of Delaware (www.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, 160 faculty members, and state-of-the art facilities. 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 marketing, management, operations management, international business, and entrepreneurship.  To learn more about the Department and its faculty members, please visit https://lerner.udel.edu/departments/business-administration/. The department promotes a collegial, supportive environment and values 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, and contact information for three references. Letters of recommendation will be requested at time of application submission. Additional information may be requested after initial review of applicants. Submit inquiries, but not application materials or letters of reference, to the search committee chair, Dr. Ji Kyung Park, at jipark@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 http://www.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.