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Psychology and Neuroscience Department, Dalhousie University.

Full-time Instructor

The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University invites applications for a 12-month Instructor position commencing 1 July 2013. Assigned duties are equivalent to a nine half-credit course load distributed over a one-year period.

The primary responsibility of the successful candidate will be to organize and coordinate the laboratory sections associated with two half-credit methodology classes.

Duties entail organizing meetings of instructors and TAs, maintaining course material, student records, and “Turnitin” functions on the Blackboard Learning System (BLS), selecting and supervising undergraduate TAs assisting with methods classes, and performing programming and statistical analyses for lab projects.

Additional responsibilities entail coordinating access for students in a variety of lab classes to a resident computer lab when required and assisting in implementing scheduled computer upgrades, program acquisition and renewal of site licenses for this lab.

Remaining duties require maintaining the inventory of laboratory equipment, seeing to repairs, allocating equipment and undergraduate laboratory space for research projects in other classes, and teaching a half-credit undergraduate content class in Forensic psychology and a summer course on a topic within the candidate’s range of expertise.

Applicants should have an advanced degree in Psychology and some experience teaching in a university setting. Good computer skills are necessary. Experience with Macintosh operating system is required; and the candidate is expected to be proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as data entry and file maintenance. Applications should be submitted by 29 March 2013 to Dr. Kevin Duffy, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 (FAX 902.494-6585), e-mail: (kevin.duffy@dal.ca). Applications should include a summary of previous teaching experience, statement of teaching interest, a curriculum vitae, and evaluations received in previously taught university, and two or more confidential letters of reference forwarded under separate cover by the referees.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer. The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons and women.