Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, Chemistry

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

If you are a current Barnard College employee please use the internal career site to apply for this position.

Job:

Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow Chemistry

Barnard College seeks a full-time (early-career) Faculty Fellow to join the rich community of research teaching and praxis centered in the Department of Chemistry. This is a two-year residential research and teaching fellowship welcoming of early-career scholars from a broad range of social backgrounds including those under-represented in academia. The fellowship is designed to help expand the breadth of scholars hired into tenure-track positions by providing valuable experience skills and mentorship. Faculty Fellows teach two undergraduate courses each year relevant to their scholarly interests and experience conduct research and scholarship and receive professional development support from the department Barnard College and Columbia University.

Job Description:

The Department of Chemistry at Barnard College seeks a full-time (early-career) Faculty Fellow specializing all areas of computational chemistry. Faculty Fellow program is a two-year residential fellowship welcoming of early-career scholars from a broad range of social backgrounds including those under-represented in academia. This complement of extraordinary early-career scholars will play an active role in a vibrant scholarly community and fully participate in the life of their academic home(s) at the fellowship is designed to help expand the breadth of scholars who are hired into tenure-track positions by providing them with the experience skills and accomplishments necessary to succeed in the highly competitive application process.

Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to both teaching undergraduates and developing their own research are interested in candidates with a commitment to mentoring and supporting students from underrepresented ideal candidate will have 1-2 years of post-doctoral research experience but recent Ph.D. recipients with well-developed research plans are welcome to apply.

Faculty Fellows teach two undergraduate courses (or their equivalent) relevant to their scholarly interests and experience conduct research and scholarship and receive mentoring and professional development support fromthe Department of Chemistry Barnard college and Columbia responsibilities will be determined based on candidates interest and experience.

This is a two-year position beginning on July 1 2026 with teaching responsibilities during the standard academic year from September to May.

For more information please see and a list of current Faculty Fellows please see approximately January 20 2026 the Department of Chemistry and the Faculty Diversity & Development committee will begin the review of applications which continue until the position is e-mail with any questions.

Skills Qualifications & Requirements:

Required Qualifications

Terminal degree in a relevant discipline with all requirements for the degree completed by the start of appointment (i.e. July 1 2026).

Application Requirements

Only complete applications submitted via Workday will be considered. Applicants are required to upload the following documents:

A CV with links to all available research teaching and service materials
A single pdf document containing:
- 2-3 page cover letter addressing research teaching and service/community engagement interests. Please also address your ability to work effectively with a student population that is broadly diverse including with regard to gender and gender expression race ethnicity nationality sexual orientation religion politics etc.;
- Personal statement that summarizes why this opportunity is particularly appealing to you and is likely to benefit you professionally;
- 1 representative publication or single writing sample preferably <30 pages (e.g. journal article book chapter dissertation chapter);

Finalists will be asked to identify three references who will be contacted at a later stage.

Salary: $75000.

The salary for this position is fixed and non-negotiable.

Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellows are benefit-eligible and also eligible to apply for the research ($4000) conference travel ($3000) and book publication subvention grants available to all full-time faculty. For more information please see and College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Barnard does not discriminate due to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation gender and/or gender identity or expression marital or parental status national origin ethnicity citizenship status veteran or military status age disability or any other legally protected basis. Qualified candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels.

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to departmental budgets qualifications experience education licenses specialty and training. The above hiring range represents the Colleges good faith and reasonable estimateof the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Company:

Barnard College

Time Type:

Full time

Required Experience:

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