Employment Type: Permanent Faculty Vacancy ID: FAC0005370 Salary Range: Salary is competitive and will be commensurate with experience. Position Summary/Description: The School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an open rank fixed-term faculty position (12-month). This fixed-term faculty position will also hold a secondary appointment (12-month and at-will) as the Director of Practicum Education. The mission of the School of Social Work is to advance equity, transform systems, and improve lives. The curriculum supports this mission and includes a focus on evidenced-based practice; concern for disadvantaged, vulnerable, and oppressed individuals, families, and communities; and the design and development of social interventions. This position and its secondary appointment will be reviewed annually for reappointment. We are seeking applicants with a breadth of social work practice experience and expertise and ability to teach in generalist and direct practice or macro specialization courses. Specifically, the applicant should have experience in social work practice with assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups or communities and organizations. Experience working in practicum education is strongly preferred. Applicants with an LCSW or macro level work experience and demonstrated skills and experience in teaching graduate level classes or training are preferred. This non-tenured position is responsible for coordinating practicum education in social work practice areas, as well as teaching three seminar courses per year and to service and community engagement. Additional responsibilities include advising students, serving on committees, and other service duties. The position will support administrative responsibilities as Director of Practicum Education and is responsible for providing curriculum and administrative leadership for the School’s practicum education program through coordinating the efforts of the Practicum Team, managing the budget, representing the program on appropriate committees and task groups, and assisting the Practicum Advisory Committee in executing its duties. The Director of Practicum Education is responsible for developing and implementing standards for selecting agencies, selecting field instructors and evaluating student learning in the practicum; ensuring planned cooperation between the School of Social Work and the agencies selected for the practicum placement of students; coordinating the assignment of students to practicum sites; administering an information system that efficiently generates data required for effective practicum education planning, development, operation, and evaluation; and evaluating all aspects of the practicum education program in terms of its consistency with the School of Social Work’s mission, goals, and curriculum objectives. The Director also reviews issues in practicum education as well as problems and opportunities that emerge in the administration of the Practicum Education Program in order to make informed recommendations to the faculty and practicum-related committees, interprets policies, procedures, and expectations of practicum agencies, and assesses the fit between school curriculum and educational experiences provided by agencies; administers and designs the training curriculum and recognition system for practicum instructors and relevant agency partners; supervises the work of Practicum Education Program faculty and staff; and initiates and maintains regular planned exchanges among representatives of practicum agencies, representatives of social work programs locally, nationally, and globally, and other social work practitioners regarding the school’s educational goals and objectives, curriculum, student performance, and developments in the field of social work that affect student learning.