Job Description
Position Rank: Full Time Tenure Stream – Associate/Full Professor
Discipline/Field: Canadian Local Governance & Community Development (Markham Campus)
Home Department/Area/Division: School of Public Policy & Administration
Affiliation/Union: YUFA
Position Start Date: July 1, 2021
The School of Public Policy & Administration, York University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a professorial stream tenure-track appointment in Canadian Local Governance & Community Development at the Associate/Full Professor level, to commence July 1, 2021. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. All York University positions are subject to budgetary approval. The successful applicant will be based at the new York Markham Centre Campus, teaching in the School’s executive-style graduate program, when operational (expected in Fall 2023) and become a member of the first cohort of resident faculty members. Between July 1, 2021 and the opening of the campus, the appointee will assume a combination of teaching responsibilities at York’s Keele campus and downtown Toronto, and contribute to the development of academic and research programming planned for the new Markham Centre Campus.
York University’s Markham Centre Campus ( https://www.yorku.ca/markham/ ) offers state-of-the-art facilities to provide innovative job-ready academic programming and research focussing on core themes of technology and entrepreneurship as applied in different contexts, disciplines and professional fields. Building on York University’s academic presence in the City of Markham, the new campus will help fulfil future labour market and civic leadership needs by providing transferable 21st century skills that are at the core of future economic competitiveness and community development in Markham, York Region and across Ontario. Collaboration with York University’s existing research strengths in the core areas of the new campus and dynamic engagement with the area’s businesses and industries will create an innovative, cross-disciplinary research culture for solving complex problems that transcend traditional disciplines.
A PhD in law, public policy or related discipline or PhD equivalent (typically an SJD or LLM/MPP/MPA/MA with a substantial record of professional experience in Canadian local governance and community development) is required, with a demonstrated record of excellence or promise of excellence in research, teaching and service. Applicants should have a clearly articulated program of research and publications/expertise in one or more of the following areas: Canadian local governance, community development, Indigenous governance, and policy and governance related to anti-Black racism, and equity and diversity more broadly in the Canadian context.