Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry

Job Description

The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation invites applications for Collegiate Assistant Professor of Forestry. At Virginia Tech Collegiate professors are full members of the faculty whose responsibilities are focused on teaching. The successful candidate will join Virginias only four-year Society of American Foresters-accredited forestry program and will play a highly visible student-facing role in sustaining core forestry instruction field-based education professional preparation and workforce connections.
We seek an educator with broad forestry expertise a strong background in forest operations and the ability to connect classroom and field laboratory instruction with contemporary forestry practices and employer expectations.

Teaching and Mentoring Expectations
The position is expected to carry approximately a 3:3 teaching load with appropriate consideration of the additional time demands of field laboratory courses. Specific teaching assignments may include some of the following courses depending on program needs and the professional experience and expertise of the successful candidate:
FREC 2214 Introduction to Land and Field Measurements
FREC 3714 Forest Harvesting
FREC 3724 Forest Boundaries and Roads
FREC 3734 Forest Fiber Supply
FREC 4004 Professional Skills in Natural Resources
FREC 4714 Harvesting Systems Evaluation.

The successful candidate may also contribute to a first-year experience course forestry courses for non-majors a forestry capstone course or study-abroad experiences as appropriate within the approximately 3:3 teaching workload expectation.

Research Scholarship Extension and Engagement Expectations
For a Collegiate faculty appointment approximately 510% of effort may support pedagogical or disciplinary scholarship and collaborative research. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to curriculum development and revision student mentoring experiential learning and engagement with forestry employers and stakeholders. Participation in Forestry Extension activities is possible but not required.

About the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech is one of the top forestry natural resource management and conservation programs in the United States. Our vision mission and values statements can be found here: We are an inclusive and collaborative department that values knowledge and innovation; ethics and integrity; diversity and inclusivity; opportunity and affordability; and sustainability. Our exceptional education research and outreach programs are diverse and approach critical natural resource issues from many perspectives. The department offers masters and doctoral programs as well as five undergraduate majors: environmental conservation and society environmental data science environmental resource management forestry and water resources policy and management. Faculty research areas of focus include forest biometrics modeling and remote sensing; forest biology physiology and genomics; ecology silviculture and wildland fire; hydrology soils and watershed management; forest management operations and business; resource economics and policy; human dimensions of natural resources and sustainability; environmental education interpretation and communication; and urban forestry. Department faculty also are engaged with industrial cooperatives as well as extension and outreach efforts such as landowner education SHARP logger Master Naturalist learning networks focused on environmental education and interpretation and geospatial education programs.

Required Qualifications

Doctorate by time of appointment in forestry natural resources or a closely related field.
Demonstrated professional or academic expertise sufficient to teach the above-listed courses with emphasis on forest operations courses.
Demonstrated commitment to deliver high-quality field-based and experiential undergraduate education.
Strong communication organizational and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Professional forestry credentials
Operational experience or substantial engagement with forest industry agencies consulting or land management organizations.
Experience as instructor of record for undergraduate field or laboratory courses.

Overtime Status

Exempt: Not eligible for overtime

Appointment Type

Regular

Salary Information

$85k - $95k

Hours per week

40

Review Date

10/15/2026

Additional Information

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.

About Virginia Tech

Dedicated to its mottoUt Prosim(That I May Serve) Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world Virginia Tech is aninclusive communitydedicated to knowledge discovery and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36000 undergraduate graduate and professional students in eightundergraduate colleges aschool of medicine aveterinary medicinecollegeGraduate School andHonors university has a significant presence across Virginia including Blacksburg the greater Washington D.C. area the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke sites in Newport News and Richmond and numerousExtension officesandresearch institutes.A leading global research institution Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.

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