Founded in 1864, the University of Denver (DU) is an independent, R1 doctoral-granting university with robust undergraduate and graduate education. DU has become increasingly known, nationally and internationally, for its creative, 21st-century approaches to problem-based scholarship, as well as its holistic, student-centered approach to learning and its dedication to the public good through local, national, and international partnerships. The University plays an integral role in the cultural, social, economic, and educational vibrancy of the fast-growing city and region it calls home. DU has a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The DEI Action Plan serves as a guide to DU’s abiding commitment to truly embodying a forward-looking institution and community where all can belong, contribute, and thrive and includes three senior administrators in the chancellor’s cabinet who have direct accountability for DEI work.

The University of Denver recognizes that its success in being a great university dedicated to the public good depends greatly on how well it engages, supports, and champions the values of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. As part of our intentionality in recruiting and retaining faculty from a wide variety of historically excluded intersecting identities, including those from communities of color, with diverse gender and sexual identities, first-generation college graduates, or with disabilities, new faculty will have the opportunity to choose to participate in a pilot University-wide initiative. This initiative will connect new colleagues in a cohort, building community across units with supportive programming led by the Office of the Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs in collaboration with the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and each faculty participant’s academic unit. To learn more about the University of Denver’s commitments and work in support of DEI and J, please visit: https://www.du.edu/equity. For more information about this program or if you have any questions, please email inclusion@du.edu and/or visit https://duvpfa.du.edu/faculty-resources/prospective-faculty/ .

About GSPP and the PSYD Program

At the Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP), our goal is to transform the way we think about and approach mental health and wellness. We do so through groundbreaking academic programs and experiential training that aims to ensure we can better meet the needs of the communities we serve. We are dedicated to developing exceptional practitioners and scholars by offering a well-rounded approach to education. Every single one of our programs blends valuable academic offerings, intensive field-based training, cutting-edge applied research, and constructive community engagement. Our academic programs are rooted in our history of service and have developed over time to meet the growing needs of society. For more information, please visit http://psychology.du.edu .

GSPP was created in 1976 to house one of the first Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) programs in the country, under the Vail (practitioner-scholar) training model. GSPP currently also offers four specialized master’s programs: Forensic Psychology, International Disaster Psychology: Trauma and Global Mental Health, Sport and Performance Psychology, and Sport Coaching, as well as online certificates and continuing education. GSPP also has a partially affiliated, APA-accredited internship consortium and several in-house and satellite psychology training clinics that serve Denver and the surrounding communities. As a professional school, GSPP promotes and utilizes high-level pedagogy that integrates applied practice, theory, research, and scholarship.

GSPP seeks to train students to provide culturally competent services to clients and the community. Although more progress is needed, GSPP endeavors to create an accessible, affirming, and safe climate by actively engaging in the process of systemic transformation and accountability.

Position Summary

The PsyD program at the Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) at the University of Denver (DU) seeks a faculty member for a full-time, 10-month, benefited, tenure-track position specialized training in Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health. The role reports to the PsyD Program Director.

The position includes teaching, scholarship, service, and clinical supervision/administrative duties. Teaching expectations for tenure-track faculty are typically 18 credits over fall, winter, and spring quarters. A combination of teaching and clinic supervision/administration is an integral part of this position. There may be adjustments or reductions based on administrative, supervisory, or other responsibilities (see below). Scholarship expectations include serving on doctoral paper committees as well as publications, presentations, research, and/or grant-related work particularly as it relates to child and adolescent behavioral health. Service responsibilities include participating in PsyD admissions processes, participating in competency exams, academic advising, and serving on university or unit committees. In addition, GSPP requires all faculty and staff to exhibit excellent citizenship and pursue professional development to foster a model workplace.

Administratively, this position will have significant responsibilities for the day-to-day operations of the Caring for YoU and Baby (CUB) clinic, including direct clinical supervision of CUB trainees and oversight of other CUB clinical supervisors. These clinic administration duties are outside the scope of the typical faculty workload of teaching, scholarship, and service, therefore they are factored in as either a teaching reduction or as overload pay. GSPP’s current workload framework assigns these administrative duties a 6 credit hour equivalency. The workload framework is subject to change. The faculty member’s CUB involvement also requires them to contribute to GSPP Clinical Services’ onsite supervision coverage which is shared among clinic-involved faculty and generally involves 1-2 days a week of coverage. The position also involves seeking external funding and running applied research projects that align with GSPP’s strengths in workforce development and clinical services.

This position is partially endowed and reports to the Director of the PsyD Program, with a dotted line to the GSPP Director of Clinical Services for clinic responsibilities. Faculty appointments are 10 months (September – June), but since the PsyD program is year-round, some summer obligations should be expected and are compensated separately. In particular, this position has clinical responsibilities that extend through the summer.

This tenure-track position will be filled at the Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level and will be appointed at the rank appropriate for the candidates documented experience and excellence in the field:

• Assistant Professors will be candidates in the first two to seven years of experience post-doctorate with strong, documented potential for excellence in teaching and research. Appointments at this rank will have a maximum of six years of service prior to consideration for promotion and tenure, and a mid-tenure review will occur half-way through the appointment time at the assistant rank.
• Associate Professors will be candidates who are mid-career teacher/scholars with a strong, documented record of excellence in research, teaching, and service.
• Professors will be candidates at the top of the profession as teacher/scholars with an extensive, strong, documented excellence in research and teaching. Often candidates will have received awards for their research and teaching and have evidence of functioning as a mentor to other faculty.
• If the chosen candidate is deemed to have background and experience commensurate with the rank of Associate or Professor, consideration for credit of years of experience toward tenure or, in exceptional situations, tenure may be completed at the time of hire if the candidate meets GSPP and DU criteria.

The appointment will commence by September 1, 2025. Applications will be accepted until March 14, 2025.

Essential Functions

The ideal candidate will demonstrate experience and versatility in inclusive pedagogy. We are especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion through their teaching, service, student mentorship, and community-engaged research. Duties in these areas include, but are not limited to:

Teaching

• Teaching, as a tenure-line faculty member, 18 credits at the graduate level with a focus on courses relevant to child and adolescent behavioral health; this teaching load may be reduced based on clinic supervision and administrative duties.
• Maintain high teaching standards informed by best practices in pedagogy and leveraging available technologies to improve the student experience
• Pursue relevant and needed professional development to complete these tasks

Administration & Clinical Supervision

• Administrative oversight of CUB Clinic’s operations
• Direct clinical supervision of CUB trainees and other PPC trainees
• Oversight of CUB clinical supervisors
• Provide onsite supervision coverage approximately 1-2 days per week
• Effectively managing budgets and personnel related to CUB and other child and adolescent related programming and clinical services

Scholarship

• Engage in scholarship including publications, presentations, research, and/or grant-related work with specialized focus on child and adolescent behavioral health issues.
• Serve on PsyD student doctoral paper committees

Service

• Exhibit good citizenship through collaboration and service on committees to support PsyD, GSPP, the University, community, and national and global efforts to improve the practice of psychology
• Participate in the PsyD admissions process
• Participate in PsyD competency exams
• Provide high-quality academic advising for PsyD students in accordance with GSPP, & DU protocol, along with state and federal legal and ethical guidelines
• Serve on university or unit committees.
• Uphold GSPPs commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through all professional activities
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of child and adolescent behavioral health
• Skill in the assessment and clinical treatment of child and adolescent populations
• Ability to provide clinical supervision to trainees and a diverse range of supervising psychotherapists
• Relevant knowledge of and demonstrated commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, social justice, and access in education
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the capacity for outstanding teaching at the graduate level.
• Strong technology skills, including familiarity with MS Office suite, to be successful as a faculty member and leader
• Strong administrative and leadership skills, including project and process management
• Initiative and ability to work both independently and in a collaborative, collegial environment.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with diverse communities or evidence of a commitment to incorporate inclusive teaching methods and/or pedagogies to effectively engage broadly diverse student populations
• Ability and willingness to incorporate relevant, timely, and inclusive course material.
• Ability to effectively receive and incorporate feedback
• Ability to meet changing course and program needs

Required Qualifications

• A doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology or a related field and license eligible in Colorado within 12 months. Failure to obtain licensure within 12 months may result in disciplinary action.
• Experience with teaching, supervision, research and scholarship, service, and/or relevant professional experience, commensurate with rank, particularly in the area of child to adolescent behavioral health

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensed in the State of Colorado as a doctoral-level psychologist
• Five to ten years of post-doctoral experience in the field of perinatal, child, and/or adolescent psychology
• Strong network in child and adolescent behavioral health treatment field or clinical community
• A demonstrated commitment to teaching, clinical service, research, and/or training appropriate to the missions of the PsyD program and GSPP
• Knowledge of, respect for, and development of skills to effectively engage with diverse individuals and communities
• Accomplished graduate level teaching and mentorship that reflects a variety of instructional approaches and/or curricular perspectives to engage diverse populations and learning styles
• Demonstrated experience securing external funding for research.
• Strong record of publication and presentation in perinatal, child, and/or adolescent behavioral health
• Administrative leadership experience
• 3 years of experience in an agency or equivalent providing counseling/psychotherapy and assessment
• Curriculum development experience

Working Environment

1. Standard office environment.
2. Unexpected interruptions occur often and stress level is moderate to high.
3. Noise level is quiet to moderate.

Physical Activities

1. Ability to sit in front of a computer for an extended period of time.
2. Occasionally required to move about the office/campus with the capability of transporting objects up to 20 lbs.

Work Schedule

While the University's administrative offices are open Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, faculty schedules vary from term to term and are based on courses taught, service commitments, and research agendas. The University's academic calendars are posted on the registrar's website (the law school is on a semester system and has a different academic calendar).

Application Deadline

For consideration, please submit your application materials by 4:00 p.m. (MST) March 14, 2025.

Special Instructions

Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.

Salary Grade Number

The salary grade for the position is UC.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $78,000 - $139,000.

The University of Denver has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The University may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Benefits

The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference. Learn more about the University of Denver.

Please include the following documents with your application:

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Cover Letter

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All offers of employment are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check.