Rhode Island College invites applicants for two positions of Assistant/Associate/Full Professor-Biotechnologist (Cellular/Molecular/Biochemical). These are full-time, academic year, continuing tenure-track positions.

Rhode Island College Biology Department invites candidates with expertise in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, or other related fields applicable to the Biotechnology sector to apply for two full-time, tenure-track positions. The State of Rhode Island is seeking to develop a biotechnology sector in the Providence area and has invested considerable resources toward that goal. Rhode Island College is ideally situated and has been tasked to develop programs that would produce a technologically skilled workforce.

We seek qualified applicants who are innovative and creative teacher-scholars with demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring. The position also offers exciting opportunities for faculty to assume leadership roles in the growth and development of the new state-funded interdisciplinary Biotechnology program. Successful applicants will teach foundational and advanced courses for both Biology and Biotechnology majors and are expected to establish a research program which incorporates primarily undergraduate students.

Rhode Island College is a mid-sized institution of about 6400 students located in a suburban setting in Providence. We serve and celebrate a diverse student population in which over 40% of the undergraduates are students of color and over 45% are the first in their family to attend college. The College boasts an engaged faculty community, and a proud tradition of shared governance. Recently, RIC was federally designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). As a small state in New England, Rhode Island has much to offer, with beaches, wooded areas, and the cultural and academic resources found in Providence and nearby Boston and New York.

Required qualifications:

• Ph.D. in a biological science
• Demonstrated commitment to undergraduate instruction and to mentoring student researchers
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Effectively use available instructional technology and inquiry-based pedagogical methods
• Demonstrated research expertise and ability to work with students and technicians in a laboratory setting.

• Experience in an industrial biotechnology setting
• Some knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations
• Evidence of effective undergraduate teaching
• Established record of support of undergraduate and/or graduate research
• Experience with nontraditional students and with an ethnically-diverse student population
• Demonstrated grant writing skills
• Bilingual