The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health is growing! We are thrilled to share we are hiring multiple faculty positions: Tenure-Track Faculty and Clinical Professors. These new roles will help to establish a new national model for promoting behavioral health and wellness for children and adolescents.
Description: The Ballmer Institute is seeking to hire up to ten (10) open-rank tenure-related faculty members in the area of child and adolescent behavioral health. Four new faculty hires are anticipated for Fall 2023 with search efforts continuing until all positions are filled. Candidates for these positions should have a program of research in child behavioral health which could include areas such as prevention science, intervention science, and/or health promotion with expertise in addressing the needs of historically and/or persistently underserved communities. Ballmer Institute faculty members will collaborate with existing faculty across the university to advance research that addresses health inequities and improving behavioral health outcomes for children and families. Based on faculty expertise and interest, a primary academic appointment will be made in either the College of Education or the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. All positions will be located within the Ballmer Institute at the new University of Oregon campus in Northeast Portland.
Successful candidates will contribute to the research and educational mission and vision of the Ballmer Institute, and the UO. They will contribute to the undergraduate programs in child behavioral health at the Ballmer Institute, as well as benefit from clear ties to doctoral and masters level training programs located at the UO, such as clinical psychology, developmental psychology, counseling psychology, school psychology, prevention science, and special education. Successful candidates will conduct an active, externally funded research program and contribute to the science through professional publications and presentations; engage with community partners and university leaders through the Ballmer Institute; contribute to department, college, and university governance in a manner consistent with the needs of an AAU, major research university; and contribute to emerging continuing education and distributed learning activities. The successful candidate will support and enhance a diverse learning and working environment. We particularly welcome applications from scholars who are from groups historically underrepresented in the academy, and/or who have experience working with populations from historically and persistently underserved communities.
Name of Department: The Ballmer Institute
Name of Supervisor: Randy Kamphaus, Acting Executive Director
review of applications, Nov. 1st
Description: Clinical professor faculty (assistant, associate, or professor rank) serve as the essential link between teaching and practice at The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health. Clinical professor faculty are partners in applied research and the delivery of comprehensive, responsive, evidence-based behavioral health services at schools, healthcare, and community training sites. Clinical professor faculty work in coordination with urban school districts and other training site staff to deliver promotion and prevention programs/interventions aimed at improving the behavioral health and wellness of all children and adolescents.
Clinical professor faculty oversee the integration of Ballmer Institute undergraduate students at training sites providing instruction and supervision while maintaining alignment and communication with site staff. Clinical faculty will be expected to provide direct behavioral health services and teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level as aligned with their areas of professional, instructional, or research experience in a way that prepares students to engage effectively with youth K-12 from a great variety of backgrounds.
Clinical professor faculty who have effectively worked to address disparities in one of the priority areas: behavioral health promotion and prevention, mental health risk screening, and indicated behavioral health care for youth experiencing emerging behavioral health problems in historically and persistently underserved communities and/or indigenous communities are encouraged to apply.
Name of Department: The Ballmer Institute
Name of Supervisor: Randy Kamphaus, Acting Executive Director
Closing Date: review of applications, Nov. 1st