Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Bacteriologist
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Bacteriologist
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Position: Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences (Bacteriologist)
Effective Date: August 18 2025 (Fall Semester)
Salary Range: The Assistant Professor (Academic Year) classification salary is $6221 to $13224/per month 12 monthly payments per academic year). The anticipated hiring range is $7000 to $8700/per month 12 Monthly payments per academic year). Salary offered is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Application Deadline: Review of applications to begin November 6 2024. Position opened until filled (or recruitment canceled)
California State University Long Beach CSULB is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific IslanderServing Institution (AANAPISI). It also earned the prestigious Seal of Excelencia in 2023 joining a distinctive group of colleges and universities who have been recognized for its commitment to Latine/x student success. CSULB is committed to serving diverse students and has established and actively supports the Black Excellence Collegium dedicated to promoting Black excellence and advancing Black Student Success and El Concilio for Latinx Success at the Beach whose mission is to build capacity and promote inclusive servingness across initiatives and efforts towards Latine/x student faculty and staff success across campus. The Presidents Equity and Change Commission is dedicated to achieving inclusive excellence in our community and culture and to interrogate disrupt and transform systemic inequities throughout the university. CSULBs Beach 2030 University Action Plans prioritize engaging all students; expanding access to higher education; promoting intellectual achievement; building community; and cultivating resilience.
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Department of Biological Sciences
Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in the life sciences
- Research experience in bacteriology
- A record of research productivity commensurate with experience level
- Demonstrated commitment to effective teaching of microbiology courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels
- Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population including Black/African American Latine/x Native American/Indigenous lowincome firstgeneration and minoritized students.
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least two years of postdoctoral or independent research experience
- Demonstrated potential for establishing a wet labbased externally funded research program in molecular cellular or physiological bacteriology
- Demonstrated interest in increasing the participation of underrepresented students in research and/or outreach
- Teaching experience at the college level especially in microbiology
- Commitment to learning and incorporating pedagogical best practices to create equitable courses that promote student learning
- Experience of successfully working with populations demographically and/or socioeconomicallylikethe CSULB studentbody
- Experience mentoring or supporting students with minoritized identities or experience using inclusive and culturally relevant teaching strategies in a diverse classroom
Duties:
- Develop and teach courses in bacterial physiology microbial genetics and/or microbiology including graduate seminars. Mode of instruction may include inperson hybrid online and/or any combination thereof.
- Contribute to our efforts to diversify the scientific workforce by effectively training students both inside and outside the classroom
- Develop and sustain an independent externally funded wet labbased research program in bacteriology (BSL2 or lower) that involves undergraduate and graduate (M.S. students and leads to peerreviewed publications with student coauthors
- Participate in service to the department college university and community
CSULB seeks to recruit faculty who enthusiastically support the Universitys strong commitment to the academic success of all of our students including students of color students with disabilities students who are first generation to college veterans students with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and students of diverse sexual orientations and gender seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the People of California to maintain the excellence of the University and to offer our students a rich variety of expertise perspectives and ways of knowing and learning.
The Department of Biological Sciences is dedicated to ensuring that our highly diverse graduates are prepared for future success by offering a welcoming and challenging education that includes a rigorous curriculum with highquality research opportunities. Our students learn to think like scientists using conceptbased knowledge rather than mastering facts. We value teaching and research as essential components of education; our graduate and undergraduate students engage in research mentored by nearly 30 tenured/tenuretrack faculty leading to diverse career outcomes such as health professions academia teaching industry and government agencies.
We have a strong record of graduating underrepresented and underserved students; at CSULB these efforts are supported by an extensive array of federal and state grants to support training of undergraduate and graduate students for research careers including NIHBUILD UROP NIHBridges to the Doctorate and NIHURISE Research facilities include a dedicated research laboratory (BSL2 or lower) and extensive shared molecular imaging and computational instrumentation on excellent benefits package available to CSULB faculty is located here: CSU Employee Benefits
How to Apply Required Documentation:
- An Equity and Diversity Statement about your teaching or other experiences successes and challenges in working with a diverse student population (maximum two pages singlespaced). For further information and guidelines please visit: of application addressing the required and preferred qualifications
- CV
- Three references (to be contacted for confidential letters of recommendation should you reach the finalist stage
- Research Plan (maximum two pages singlespaced)
- Teaching Statement (maximum two pages singlespaced)
- Reprints of representative publications (maximum three reprints)
- Finalistsshould be prepared to submit an official transcript (etranscript preferred if available)
How to Apply: Click Apply Now icon to complete the CSULB online application
Requests for information about the position and application process should be addressed to:
Dr. Deborah Fraser Professor
California State University Long Beach
Department of Biological Sciences
1250 Bellflower Boulevard
Long Beach CA
EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:
A background check (including a criminal record check and telephone reference check with most recent employer) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position with the CSU. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current CSU employees who apply for the position.
The person holding this position is considered a mandated reporter under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 Revised July 21 2017 as a condition of employment.
Pursuant to the California State University (CSU) OutofState Employment Policy hiring employees to perform CSUrelated work outside of California is prohibited effective January 1 2022. By prohibiting employment outside of California the CSU also prohibits hiring and retaining employees working permanently from a business location outside of the United States. Exceptions to the Policy are limited to approved and documented purposes for conducting CSU business outside of California.
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AdditionallypertheCSUCOVID19VaccinationPolicyallfacultystaffadministratorsandstudents whoareaccessingcampusfacilitiesarerecommended to receive immunization against COVID 19 but are not required to be vaccinated at this time. The systemwide COVID19 questions may be sent to .
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Employment Type
Full Time
