Assistant Professor of Social Work tenure track

The School of Social Work at the University of St. Thomas invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Social Work position with a nine-month appointment. We seek a dynamic and engaged scholar-educator who demonstrates collaborative engagement, excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. This candidate will contribute meaningfully to our commitment of preparing ethical, competent, and culturally responsive social work professionals. Our School offers social work degree programs at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels. This in-person position will have primary teaching responsibilities in the clinical MSW program and may include teaching at the BSW or DSW level as needed. The successful candidate will have demonstrated training, skills, and experience to teach clinical courses. The MSW program is offered in two formats : in-person weeknights and hybrid weekend. he BSW program is offered in the traditional weekday format, and the DSW is fully online.

The School of Social Work mission is : "Grounded in social justice and inspired by Catholic social thought, we educate and engage students to learn, grow and develop their professional skills as they prepare for social work practice in support of health, wellbeing and the common good." We recently celebrated our 50th anniversary as an accredited school. Our faculty and staff are committed to helping students develop a strong clinical social work identity grounded in social work values and ethics, skills to actively engage diverse client populations, a solid knowledge base with critical thinking and reflective practice skills, the capacity for leadership, and the ability to assess and improve social work practice. Our MSW program has special expertise and programming in integrated behavioral health, practice with older adults, practice with immigrants and refugees, and addiction and co-occurring disorders. The School of Social Work is part of the Morrison Family College of Health. We invite candidates who will work to advance the missions of both the School and the College, the latter being, "to prepare highly skilled and caring professionals who are culturally responsive, practice with ingenuity, and proactively advance health equity and social justice."

To learn more about life as a faculty member at St. Thomas, please see https : / / www.stthomas.edu / jobs / for-faculty / index.html

Minimum Qualifications :

• MSW from a CSWE-accredited program and at least two years of post-MSW clinical social work practice experience
• PhD or DSW (U.S. or foreign equivalent degree) in Social Work or a closely related field (ABD considered if all degree requirements are completed by August 1, 2026)
• Ability and strong interest in teaching clinical social work courses at the graduate level
• Experience or strong interest in teaching in both in-person and hybrid learning environments
• Commitment to the values and ethics of social work and the mission and convictions of the university
• Minnesota state law requires that individuals with social work degrees who teach must be licensed. Candidates from Minnesota must hold a clinical license (LICSW). Those outside of MN must hold a clinical license in localities that have this option and if not, they must be clinical license-eligible.

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