Job Description
Syracuse University invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Sport Analytics in the Department of Sport Management. Teaching expectations include teaching courses at the graduate and/or undergraduate level and helping with student research projects. The faculty member is expected to conduct an active program of research. Service to the school college university and the profession is also expected. The Department of Sport Management is housed in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. The Sport Analytics degree is an academically rigorous businessbased 126credit hour curriculum leading to a Bachelor of Science degree the first of its kind in the nation. It prepares students for immediate entry into the sport analytics industry directly with teams and leagues in the daily fantasy and gambling industry sponsorship and marketing analytics etc. or graduate school. For more about the program: duties include but are not limited to undergraduate and graduate instruction in the Sport Analytics degree programs publishing individual and corroborative research important to the field overseeing and helping with undergraduate and graduate research and effectively managing other responsibilities associated with being a tenured faculty member. The successful candidate will also collaborate with other academic units and departments across the College campus and the local regional and national sport industry.
Qualifications
An earned doctorate in data science analytics statistics mathematics economics finance sport management or a related terminal degree is required. Required skills include proficiency in coding and modeling of statistical relationships with sports data.