Job Opening: Professors - New Media and Converged Media for Zayed University (UAE)

01 February 2011
Job Opening: Professors - New Media and Converged Media for Zayed University (UAE)
The Opportunity

The College of Communication and Media Sciences offers a comprehensive program of study providing students opportunities to develop their communication skills and prepare themselves to play important professional leadership roles in the United Arab Emirates. Studies lead to a B.S. degree in Communication and Media Sciences with specializations in one of four areas: integrated strategic communications, visual communications, tourism and cultural communications, and converged media. Graduate programs leading to an M.A. degree also exist in tourism and cultural communications, and in strategic public relations.

The College of Communication and Media Sciences is seeking candidates to fill positions beginning in fall, 2011, contingent on budgetary allocations. Searches for these positions will open immediately and remain open until they are filled.

The Responsibilities

New Media/Digital Media/Media Storytelling

The College seeks candidates at the Assistant, Associate and Full Professor level, with expertise in teaching digital media production and distribution. Applicants for the position should be able to teach a range of introductory to advanced courses that might include some combination of the following: digital video production, digital audio production, new media distribution and development, social media, or writing for all forms of media. Successful candidates may also have significant professional experience with digital media in one or more of the following areas: journalism, social media, advertising, public relations, marketing, and/or visual communications.

Converged Media

The College seeks candidates at the Assistant, Associate and Full Professor level, with expertise and experience teaching such courses as: Media Storytelling; Reporting, Writing and Producing Converged Media; Video and Audio Production; Entrepreneurship in the Media, or other related courses. Successful candidates may also have significant professional experience in producing and distributing converged media products.

The Requirements

Candidates for positions in the College of Communication and Media Sciences should have a record of significant professional experience or scholarly research in their areas of emphasis, and baccalaureate-level teaching experience that meets international standards of scholarship. Candidates should be accomplished professionals with teaching experience or effective teacher/scholars and should be willing to teach in the undergraduate program, the College’s graduate programs, as well as outreach efforts to the community. Preference for positions will be given to candidates who demonstrate the ability to teach, do research and/or engage in creative activity, and participate in interdisciplinary College efforts in addition to their specific areas of specialization.

Applications from communication and media generalists are always welcome. The successful candidates will help implement significant curricular innovations in the College and will help enhance its efforts for international accreditation. Currently, Zayed University is accredited by the Middle State Commission on Higher Education and the College’s program is accredited by the International Advertising Association. Women and/or Arabic-speaking candidates are encouraged to apply, although all teaching is in English. For more details about the College’s leadership, faculty and programs, visit us at www.zu.ac.ae.

The Benefits

The University’s benefits package is highly attractive, with competitive salaries free of tax, housing, a furniture allowance, annual vacation airline tickets for the employee and immediate family, educational subsidies for children and subsidized healthcare for the employee and their family.

To Apply

Please click on the button below for the application form and submit your resume along with the names and contact details of at least three referees, a statement of undergraduate teaching philosophy, a statement of scholarly and creative interests, particularly as they may apply to the Middle East, and as to how they might involve undergraduate students.

Apply directly at the Zayed University career site here.
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