Job Description
The Department of Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies (ECYFS) is searching for an innovative and passionate instructor to contribute to a growing, collaborative department. This is a full-time, campus-based, 10-month Assistant Lecturer position beginning August 2025. This is a renewable contract faculty position. The ideal candidate will bring a commitment to teaching, mentorship, lifelong learning, inclusive excellence, and community engagement, with a focus on positively shaping the next generation of leaders in the field. Teaching undergraduate courses within the family and child program include, but not limited to, the following topics: youth work, family relationships, family systems, family stress, health and wellness, parenting, infant/child development, infant/child mental health, and early intervention. The standard assigned teaching load is four courses in the fall and four courses in the spring, with optional teaching opportunities over the summer.
The Department of Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies welcomes applications for a full-time, campus-based, 10-month Assistant Lecturer.
Job Function:
The Department of Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies (ECYFS) is searching for an innovative and passionate instructor to contribute to a growing, collaborative department. This is a full-time, campus-based, 10-month Assistant Lecturer position beginning August 2025. This is a renewable contract faculty position. The ideal candidate will bring a commitment to teaching, mentorship, lifelong learning, inclusive excellence, and community engagement, with a focus on positively shaping the next generation of leaders in the field. Teaching undergraduate courses within the family and child program include, but not limited to, the following topics: youth work, family relationships, family systems, family stress, health and wellness, parenting, infant/child development, infant/child mental health, and early intervention. The standard assigned teaching load is four courses in the fall and four courses in the spring, with optional teaching opportunities over the summer.
Minimum Experience:
A master's degree in human development and family studies (HDFS), family science, or a closely related field. Experience teaching at the university level or comparable professional development settings.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in the practice of youth work, family life education, parent education, childhood development, intervention, and/or learning, within a school or community context.
- Demonstrated effectiveness teaching college-level courses in key topic areas (e.g., child and adolescent development, family relationships, youth work, trauma-informed practices, family policy).
- Experience mentoring undergraduate students in high impact experiences, such as service learning, practicum, and/or internships.
- Demonstrated ability to teach, support, and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and with different life experiences.
- Experience in curricular development at the college or university-level
- Experience establishing and sustaining relationships with community partners relevant to the Family and Child program.
- The evidenced ability to contribute to the Early Childhood, Youth, and Family Studies department, Teachers College, and Ball State’s strategic plan.
At Ball State University, we recognize inclusive excellence as an integral endeavor to fulfill our University’s mission and our strategic plan. We recruit, support, and retain a diverse population of students, faculty, and staff. We encourage and reward diversity of thought. We promote a work environment that encourages and rewards innovation and creativity. We pledge to keep Inclusive Excellence at the highest level of institutional importance and as a foundation in all that we strive to do. Our over-arching goal for Inclusive Excellence is to adopt a university-wide Inclusive Excellence approach to academic, administrative support, and service functions of the university. We believe Inclusive Excellence must be infused in every step we take.
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