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About Seattle Pacific University:

Founded in 1891, Seattle Pacific University is a premier Christian university that equips people to engage the culture and change the world. Its comprehensive academic program serves more than 4,100 undergraduate and graduate students. As a Christian university, SPU is clearly evangelical, genuinely ecumenical, and distinctively Wesleyan, and seeks applicants committed to its Christian mission.  The University is located in a cosmopolitan urban center with rich cultural diversity and is committed to building an excellent and diverse teaching faculty. About SPU

Diversity Statement

As part of our mission of cultural engagement, SPU is committed to building an excellent and diverse staff and faculty. Diversity is an ethos that is inseparable from our Christian faith. At SPU, we recognize diversity as a basic feature of God's creation and a core theme of the gospel. At the heart of our mission-centered commitment to becoming a more diverse community is a desire to represent the breadth of God's kingdom more fully.

We strive to become a workplace of choice and to recruit, develop, and retain faculty and staff who can embrace, value, and engage differences with humility and care. We invite you to join us on our journey by starting a career at SPU! Learn more about SPU's commitment to diversity and opportunities for our employees to deepen their capacity to serve our increasingly diverse student body.

Seattle Pacific University provides reasonable accommodation to applicants. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the application or hiring process please contact the Human Resources Department at (206)281-2809, or email hr@spu.edu. Notification must be given at least five (5) working days before the accommodation is needed.

Job Description:

Seattle Pacific University (SPU) invites applications for an 11-month, Assistant professor rank, tenure-track faculty member as a core faculty of our COAMFTE accredited Master's Marriage and Family Therapy program. The position will begin September 1, 2022.

About the MFT Department

The MFT program, COAMFTE accredited since 1996, admits an annual incoming cohort of 25-30 students and offers a 2-year track, 3-year track, Divinity dual degree, and Certificate in Medical Family Therapy. The department is nested in the School of Psychology, Family, & Community (SPFC) which includes the undergraduate psychology, masters and doctoral industrial/organizational psychology, and doctoral clinical psychology (APA accredited) departments. SPFC is committed to an intentional and sustained school-wide effort to hire and support a diverse faculty. SPU Marriage and Family Therapy Program

Qualifications The ideal candidate will be characterized by the following:

• Mature Christian faith aligned with SPU's faith commitments SPU's Statement of Faith; known as a person of high integrity and a sense of calling to Christian higher education.
• PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy or in a closely related field.
• AAMFT Approved Supervisor or Candidate
• License eligible in WA as an LMFT
• Evidence of effective teaching and scholarship in higher education and/or the ability to meet criteria for tenure and promotion within the school.
• Ability to teach a range of courses, including courses in MedFT, neuroscience, addiction, and trauma.
• Ability to develop and grow a collaborative research program.
• Applicants with multicultural competencies are encouraged to apply.

Requirements:

The successful candidate must be able to work effectively in a multicultural academic community. We welcome candidates who have a passion for working with marginalized communities and who possess a solid understanding of how structural systems of oppression and various social identities (e.g., ethnicity-race, age, gender, sexual orientation, relationship status, gender, socioeconomic status, disability, health status, religious or spiritual, national origin) shape people's lives and their presenting problems. Candidates who have experience in diversity and reconciliation with respect to teaching, mentoring, research, life experiences, and/or service are encouraged to apply.