Department/Organization
217401 - Consumer Sciences
Rank
Teaching Assistant Professor
Position Summary
The Department of Consumer Sciences in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama is seeking an Assistant Teaching Professor to collaborate with existing faculty to expand undergraduate and graduate programs in family financial planning and counseling.
Detailed Position Information
The Department of Consumer Sciences in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama is seeking an Assistant Teaching Professor to collaborate with existing faculty to expand undergraduate and graduate programs in family financial planning and counseling. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses on campus and online; serve on department, college, and university committees; mentor undergraduate and graduate students; and seek external funding to support teaching and service activities that support financial planning and counseling education at the University of Alabama.
The successful candidate will have completed a doctoral degree in financial planning or a closely related field. The successful candidate must provide evidence of effective teaching, involvement with relevant professional organizations, experience developing and teaching both online and on-campus graduate courses in financial planning, and experience collaborating with financial planning firms.
Responsibilities: The successful candidate will contribute to teaching and service in numerous ways that support the University’s mission. Responsibilities include:
• Teach undergraduate and graduate financial planning courses in persona and online, including a) Into to Personal Financial Planning, b) Time Value of Money, c) Personal Insurance Planning, d) Personal Investment Planning, e) Personal Estate Planning, f) Personal Income Tax Planning, g) Financial Counseling, and other courses to meet department needs.
• Secure external resources (grants, in-kind support) that support financial planning programs and students.
• Work cooperatively with the department chair, undergraduate coordinator, and graduate coordinator to cultivate effective relationships with local, regional, and national financial planning firms.
• Recruit, mentor, and advise undergraduate and graduate financial planning and counseling students.
• Engaging in service on Department, College, University, and professional organizations.
Minimum Qualifications
Qualifications: Applicants must have a strong background in financial planning and counseling.
• A Ph.D. in financial planning or a closely-related field is required.
• Demonstrated ability to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in financial planning, including personal investment planning, retirement planning, and financial counseling is required.
• Demonstrated success mentoring financial planning students at the undergraduate and graduate levels is required.
• Demonstrated success developing online and in-person undergraduate and graduate financial planning courses is required.
Preferred Qualifications
• CFP® certification is preferred. • A J.D. and experience teaching personal estate planning is preferred.
Instructions and Required Materials for Application
Applications will be accepted until 5/03/25. Review of applications will begin immediately. Applications must include the following A cover letter (no more than three pages) that outlines how the applicant meets all required qualifications and has experience in each of the areas of responsibility. A curriculum vitae Transcript(s) of graduate coursework that shows completion of required terminal degree Names and contact information for three professional references For further information, contact the search committee chair, Dr. Robert Nielsen at rbnielsen@ua.edu
About the Division/College/School
At the College of Human Environmental Sciences, we empower students to bring about positive change in the world. Our faculty conduct advanced research, provide outreach and prepare a new generation of professionals with a shared goal of improving lives.
CHES brings together a wide range of disciplines which focus on the interaction between individuals, families and the environment. Five distinct departments cover a multitude of human science programs that help individuals across the lifespan improve their mental, physical and financial well-being. We touch people’s lives in the home, at school, in the workplace, at the dinner table, on the athletic field, and in a myriad of other arenas.
About the University
The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, named one of Travel + Leisure’s 25 Best College Towns and Cities in the U.S. As one of the nation’s premier universities, UA offers bachelor’s, master's and doctoral degrees in nearly 200 fields of study. With more than 1,400 acres of tree-lined academic core campus and over 300 state-of-the art facilities, UA has been ranked among the most beautiful and most impressive college campuses in the South, in the state of Alabama and in the nation.
In Fall 2023, the Capstone set a new enrollment record with more than 39,000 students, including more than 8,200 in the freshman class. The current enrollment includes students from every county in Alabama, every state in the nation and 92 countries around the world. More than 1,100 National Merit Scholars are currently enrolled, making UA one of the largest enrolling institutions of the scholars in the country.
UA was recently recognized as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. students for the seventh time in nine years, as well as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the first time. UA is one of only 12 universities in the nation to receive both honors.
For reasons like this, the University made Forbes list of America’s Top Colleges for 2023 and Time magazine’s list of Top 50 Best Colleges for Future Leaders. It also made Princeton Review’s list of Top Value Colleges.
UA is also designated among the top doctoral research universities in the United States in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. One of the fastest growing major research institutions in the nation, UA saw a 21% increase in sponsored awards in the 2023 fiscal year.
Since 2015, UA has invested over $1.1 billion in the physical campus, adding more than 2.55 million gross square feet of space, over 150 new research-intensive faculty, signature research areas (e.g., “The Alabama Research Institutes”), and a growing number of partnerships with industry and with state and federal agencies.
The University employs nearly 2,100 faculty and over 4,500 staff, with 52 UA researchers included in the National Academy of Inventors. An additional 40 current faculty have received the NSF CAREER Award, the nation’s most prestigious recognition of top performing young scientists in disciplines ranging from nanoscience and engineering to biological sciences.
Background Investigation and EEO Statement
Prior to hiring, the final candidate(s) must successfully pass a pre-employment background investigation and information obtained from social media and other internet sources. A prior conviction reported as a result of the background investigation DOES NOT automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration for this position. A candidate with a prior conviction or negative behavioral red flags will receive an individualized review of the prior conviction or negative behavioral red flags before a hiring decision is made.
The University of Alabama is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against because of their protected status. Applicants to and employees of this institution are protected under Federal law from discrimination on several bases. Follow the link below to find out more. "EEO is the Law" https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
