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UMass Boston’s Department of Performing Arts seeks applicants for a benefited, full time faculty position at the rank of Lecturer (non-tenure track) in Sound and Lighting Design starting September 1, 2024. Our Performing Arts programs (BA in Theatre, BA in Music, minor in Dance) are small but robust programs with faculty who are dedicated to student success. We seek a motivated individual to collaborate with current faculty and add their expert skills in teaching our students. Responsibilities include teaching courses in the undergraduate Theatre and Music programs, designing lighting and sound for departmental events, mentoring student practicum and performing departmental service.

Required Qualifications: 

Minimum of MFA in Design- Lighting and/or Sound; Professional experience in sound and lighting design and teaching experience required.

All applications must be submitted online at https://employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/listing/. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and the names and email addresses of three references. 

Review of applications will begin July10, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.

UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

UMass Boston is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact HRDirect@umb.edu or 617-287-5150.