The Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program, with a start date of September 1, 2025. The program is dually accredited by the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) and the American Psychological Association (APA).
The program is housed at the flagship campus of Rutgers, in New Brunswick, NJ, and its student body and geographic location are characterized by immense cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity. Our department and University strategic plan are committed to developing a diverse community that is reflective of our student body. In the past decade, the Clinical program has successfully increased diversity within its faculty and graduate student body, and we remain committed to continuing to build a Clinical program whose faculty, research, and scholarly activities integrate with and nurture its diversity.
We will prioritize recruitment of candidates that demonstrate research excellence, in any area of clinical science. However, we are particularly interested in candidates who specialize in youth and adolescent populations, including but not limited to, candidates with focuses that range from assessment of psychopathology to development and testing of evidence-based psychological treatments, and dissemination and implementation (e.g., community/school dissemination). More generally, we are also interested in candidates with expertise in clinical diversity science, health disparities research and/or research focusing on minoritized populations to address continuing mental health disparities, behavioral health and medicine, and novel technological approaches to addressing barriers to accessing mental health services
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Our program’s current research areas of strength include suicide prevention, psychotherapy evaluation, eating and personality disorders, tobacco and substance use, anxiety and stress pathology, adult autism, and behavioral medicine. We welcome applications from scholars who lead innovative research programs in areas that complement our current strengths or expand our research foci (e.g., dissemination and implementation science, clinical diversity science, clinical intervention, child and adolescent psychopathology).
Candidates from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds and those committed to mentoring students from under-represented demographics in clinical science are strongly encouraged to apply. The School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick is one of the most demographically diverse higher education communities of educators, staff, and students. Successful candidates will benefit from the Faculty Diversity Collaborative as well as established links to the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, and the Rutgers Medical School as well as various research institutes and consortiums including the Brain Health Institute, Center for Alcohol and Substance Use Studies, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology or related field by the appointment date and will be expected to develop and maintain an active, extramurally funded research program, and will teach and mentor at the undergraduate and graduate level in the field of Clinical Psychology. Candidates are also expected to contribute to graduate clinical training. Salary, start-up funds, and other considerations will be consistent with Rutgers’ commitment to recruit and retain exceptional individuals.
Applicants should submit a CV, three letters of recommendation, research statement, teaching philosophy, and a diversity statement detailing ways in which their background, research, and/or teaching will contribute to Rutgers’ commitment to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Review of applications will commence on October 15, 2024, and continue until the position is filled, but timely submission of materials is recommended for full consideration. Applicants may email Edward A. Selby, Ph.D., Chair of the Search Committee, with questions about the application or review process using the subject line ‘Clinical Faculty Search,’ at
[email protected]. Please contact Candace Green (
[email protected]) regarding any questions or concerns that you may have about the Rutgers Online Recruitment System.