Assistant Professor Department of Social Work #27-16

Tenure-Track Faculty Position Announcement

Department: Social Work

Faculty Hire Number:#27-16

Rank: Assistant Professor Tenure Track

Effective Date of Appointment: August 19 2027 (Subject to Budgetary Approval)

Anticipated Hiring Range:$75000 - $80004 annually (Dependent upon qualifications)

CSUNs Commitment to You:

CSUN is committed to achieving excellence through teaching scholarship learning and inclusion. Our values include a respect for all people building partnerships with the community and the encouragement of innovation experimentation and creativity. CSUN strives to cultivate a community in which a diverse population can learn and work in an atmosphere of civility and respect. CSUN is especially interested in candidates who make contributions to equity and inclusion in the pursuit of excellence for all members of the university community.

As a Hispanic-serving Institution (HSI) inclusiveness and diversity are integral to CSUNs commitment to excellence in teaching research and engagement. As of Fall 2025 CSUN enrolls 36960 students where 57.5% are Latinx 18.4% are White 8.5% are Asian-American 5.5% are Black/African American 0.1% are Native American and 0.1% are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

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CSUNs Department of Social Work recognizes and acknowledges the Sesevitam the first people of this ancestral and unceded territory of Sesevenga that is now occupied by our institution. We strive to honor their elders past and present and the Sesevitam descendants who are citizens of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. We recognize that the Sesevitam are still here and we are committed to lifting up their stories culture and community. For more information about the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians visit:

The Social Work Department acknowledges the countless numbers of Black families who endured the violence cruelty and barbarity of hundreds of years of enslavement and whose bodies and labor were exploited to generate massive wealth and economic structural inequalities existing in our world today. Their lives mattered. Black Lives Matter. For more information about reparations visit: Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans: we remember the historical and current generations of activism resistance creativity and resilience of Black and Indigenous people along with the intersecting struggles for liberation shared by all peoples who have been impacted by hundreds of years of colonialism. We understand their efforts have always been at the forefront of anticolonial movements for liberation and freedom. They have gifted us with their knowledge courage hope strength and love. We believe it is our responsibility to carry on these traditions of resistance insistence and persistence.

Within this spirit of gratitude the mission of the Department of Social Work is to prepare professional social workers to be anti-oppressive socially just agents of change by promoting well-being in urban settings. As an advanced generalist program with a focus on urban communities the Department will teach and create collaborative learning experiences with students. Our Department focuses on urban settings and communities with densely populated areas and a vast array of subcultures. Utilizing a lens that espouses an intersectional anti-racist trauma-informed collaborative perspective the Department embraces a strengths-based inclusive identity emphasized by the shared experiences of community culture and location. Our Department strives to prepare students to be critically conscious social work leaders who can:

• Demonstrate and apply an intersectionality power and privilege lens to address social political and systemic change.
• Empower and be relevant to the diverse needs of the multi-national multi-ethnic multi-cultural San Fernando Valley and its surrounding communities.
• Advocate for an equitable and socially just society.
• Develop critical consciousness through research practice and trauma-informed knowledge values and skills.

For more information about the Department of Social Work see: Department of Social Work at California State University Northridge (CSUN) is seeking a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. Specifically the Department seeks candidates who:

• Hold an interest in Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) with demonstrated knowledge and practice that supports teaching across micro mezzo and macro levels of social work including the integration of clinical practice community-based interventions systems and policy analysis and research.
• Demonstrate and articulate a commitment to anti-oppressive teaching scholarship mentoring and service consistent with the statements listed above and sufficient to warrant a tenure-track appointment as an Assistant Professor;
• Can teach through an intersectional lens that uses a critical anti-racist trauma-informed collaborative and strengths-based pedagogical approach;
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively work with and support a diverse student population within CSUNs context as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and a California-designated Black-Serving Institution (BSI) while fostering an inclusive learning environment responsive to the full range of identities backgrounds and experiences represented across the University; and
• Has experience in advising mentoring course development and securing external grants.

In addition to teaching the position requires weekly office hours attending faculty meetings participation in assessment of student learning and service to the department college and university. The successful candidate may be required to teach on weekdays evenings weekends and/or online and will be held to the standards and requirements of the college and department in which he/she/they is/are housed for recommending tenure and promotion. Given CSUNs commitment to excellence in teaching research and engagement in a diverse environment the successful candidate will help the Department achieve equitable academic outcomes for all students through teaching student mentorship scholarship and service.

Responsibilities:

• Faculty success at CSUN is measured by three criteria: teaching effectiveness; contributions to ones field of study; and service to the University and Community.
• The standard teaching assignment is 12 units (4 courses per semester). However new faculty members in their first two years teach 9 units per semester (3 courses).
• Successful candidates should be able to teach courses offered by the program with primary emphasis on Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) along with the ability to teach Micro Practice Macro/Policy/Advocacy and Research courses. A description of Department courses can be found at: publications are important for tenure and promotion and CSUN faculty members can apply for competitive awards that provide course releases for research or fund travel for research. Presentations at academic conferences are supported with annual travel funds.
• Tenure-track faculty members participate in shared governance usually in Department College and University committees and other service assignments.
• Successful candidates must demonstrate collegiality as a core professional responsibility through respectful collaboration constructive participation in shared governance effective communication ethical engagement with colleagues and students and meaningful contributions to a positive inclusive and professionally accountable academic environment consistent with Section 600 standards and the mission of the department and university.
• In addition to teaching the position requires weekly student hours attending faculty meetings mentoring of diverse student body and service to the department college and university. Lastly the successful candidate will be held to the standards and requirements of the college and department in which they are housed for recommending tenure and promotion.

Required Qualifications:

• Candidates must have a Master of Social Work degree from a Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited program AND a doctorate degree in Social Work Social Welfare or a related field. The doctoral degree must be awarded by the start date.
• Evidence of or clear potential for graduate-level social work teaching experience both in-person and online.
• Evidence of or clear potential for excellence in antiracist anti-oppressive intersectionality trauma-informed collaborative strengths-based equity-minded and student-centered teaching with particular emphasis on Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) and across Department of Social Work courses in Micro Practice Macro/Policy/Advocacy and Research.
• Evidence of or clear potential for adopting inclusive approaches to mentoring students from diverse backgrounds on professionalism academic learning and/or career development.
• Evidence of or clear potential for successful scholarly and/or creative development and sustained publication and/or exhibition.
• Evidence of or clear potential for effective service across University College Department and Community contexts.
• Evidence of or clear potential to engage build and sustain professional relationships with a diverse student population in ways that support the Departments mission.
• Evidence of or clear potential for developing professional collaborative relationships with colleagues that support the missions of the Department College and the University.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Evidence of or clear potential for using culturally informed pedagogy aligned with Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) competencies to promote equitable student learning and success. For more please visit: of or clear potential for collaborating effectively with MSW Practicum Education in support of practicum as the signature pedagogy of social work education.
• Evidence of or clear potential for developing cross-disciplinary research that addresses gaps in knowledge structural inequities or institutional biases affecting diverse urban communities.

Application Deadline:

• Preferred application deadline is November 2 2026 and applications received after this date may be considered on an as needed basis. However the position will remain open until filled.

How to Apply:

Candidates should apply by completing the CSUN online application. To apply and for more detailed information on the application and hiring process please visit this link: must submit the following to the website in the section above:

• A cover letter of 300 words or fewer double-spaced clearly addressing the qualifications and responsibilities described above;
• A curriculum vitae that includes contact information for three professional references; and
• A teaching philosophy statement of 300 words or fewer double-spaced addressing how the candidate integrates anti-oppressive intersectional antiracist trauma-informed collaborative and strengths-based approaches into their teaching with attention to how these approaches inform their broader scholarship and service.

In later stages of the search process applicants may be requested to provide additional materials including verification of terminal degrees licenses and certificates.

At the time of appointment the successful candidate if not a U.S. citizen must have authorization from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to work in the United States. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

Please note:California State University Northridge (CSUN) is currently not sponsoring applicants for H-1B employment that are subject to the $100000 fee established by the Presidential Proclamation: Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers issued on September 19 2025. Applicants are responsible for determining the applicability of the fee.

Education Code 89521 Requirements: Applicants will be required to disclose whether they have received a final administrative decision or final judicial decision determining that they have committed sexual harassment within the last 7 years only after a determination is made that they meet the minimum qualifications for the position and before an offer of employment is extended. Applicants who reach the final stages of the application process must also sign a release form that authorizes the release of information by the applicants current and/or former employers to the CSU concerning any substantiated allegations of misconduct.

General Information:

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The person holding this position may be 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 as a condition of employment.

A background check (including a criminal records check) 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.

In accordance with the California State University (CSU) Out-of-State Employment Policy the CSU is a state entity whose business operations reside within the State of California and prohibits hiring employees to perform CSU-related work outside of California.

CSUN is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination based on race color ethnicity religion national origin age gender gender identity/expression sexual orientation genetic information medical condition marital status veteran status and disability. Our nondiscrimination policy is set forth in the Interim CSU Nondiscrimination Policy. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for applicants with disabilities who self-disclose by contacting Laura Mancia at.