Posted: Apr 2, 2025
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Clinical Assistant Professor Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Programs

Full-time
Application Deadline: N/A
Education

University of New Hampshire (UNH) Nursing invites applications for an Assistant Clinical Professor position in our Online Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic faculty dedicated to preparing the next generation of psychiatric nurse practitioners through innovative, high-quality education.

This faculty role primarily focuses on teaching in the PMHNP graduate program, with potential opportunities to contribute to other nursing programs as needed. While this position allows for hybrid work options, regular in-person participation in activities on the Durham, NH campus is required.

Other Faculty Opportunities

Job Duties

  • Teach in the PMHNP program and potentially in other nursing programs (courses may be online or in-person, synchronous or asynchronous)

  • Engage with students through on-campus and virtual immersive learning experiences

  • Collaborate with faculty in curriculum development, program policies, assessment, and admissions

  • Advise and mentor students through office hours and scheduled appointments

  • Support clinical placements by assisting in the recruitment and relationship building of clinical sites and preceptors

  • Participate in faculty governance at the department, college, or university level

  • May oversee remote clinical supervision of graduate nursing students

  • Participate in evaluation of program and accreditation activities

  • May serve as academic advisor to nursing students

Minimum Qualifications

  • Hold a doctoral degree (DNP, EdD, PhD) in nursing or education

  • Must be eligible for a NH nursing license

  • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, with current certification and practice

  • Have 2-4 years of graduate nursing education experience

  • Ability to work effectively with a culturally and academically diverse student population

  • Must be able to work independently and effectively interact with a wide array of parties at all levels (students, faculty, dministration/staff, external constituents)

  • Strong written and oral communication skills

  • Proven dedication to student learning

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in working with college age and non-traditional students.

  • Skill in working with culturally diverse constituencies in the academic
    environment

  • Ability to cultivate external relations with community leaders, institutions and
    stakeholders.

  • Experience teaching via online learning management systems

  • Demonstrated ability to work with faculty, staff, and students as well as
    community groups of diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, sexual
    orientation, disability and ethnic backgrounds

The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.

EEO Statement

The University System of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access employer. The University System is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity and inclusiveness across our campus communities and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. The University System prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or marital status.

Location:

Durham, NH