Instructor

Job Description

The Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience invites applications for a full-time Instructor to teach undergraduate neuroscience students. The primary responsibility of this position is to teach approximately nine laboratory credit hours per academic semester within the neuroscience curriculum, including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Human Anatomy and Physiology laboratories, with responsibilities including the preparation and delivering laboratory activities; developing original, engaging laboratory exercises; supervising students during laboratory work; assessing student performance; and maintaining a safe, organized, and inclusive laboratory environment.

The position requires excellent communication and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work effectively with undergraduate students, graduate teaching assistants, and faculty. Teamwork is essential, as the Instructor will collaborate closely with School of Neuroscience faculty to ensure that laboratory activities support and complement course learning objectives. Some evening teaching may be required.

Established in 2015, the School of Neuroscience is a collaborative academic research environment with 23 primary research an instructional faculty and over 50 affiliate neuroscience faculty, a thriving Neuroscience Ph.D. program, and over 750 undergraduate neuroscience majors. Using organisms from flies to humans, the School of Neuroscience faculty explores how the brain develops, and ages, how neurons and glia interreact with one another to create functional circuits, and how these circuits create or modulate behavior, such as learning, decision-making, and sleep. Our researchers are looking at these questions in the healthy brain, in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, in psychiatric disease, in neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, in drug abuse, and in brain injury.

Required Qualifications

1) Ph.D. in neuroscience or a closely related discipline.

2) Experience teaching undergraduate students.

3) Excellent communication, organizational, and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications

1) Experience teaching undergraduate laboratory courses.

2) Hands-on experience with molecular or experimental biology techniques.

3) Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.

4) Experience creating engaging, hands-on laboratory activities.

Overtime Status

Exempt: Not eligible for overtime

Appointment Type

Restricted

Salary Information

Commensurate with experience

Hours per week

40 hours - exempt position

Review Date

10/15/2026, and will continue until the position is filled

Additional Information

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

About Virginia Tech

Dedicated to its motto, Ut 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 an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The 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 numerous Extension offices and research institutes.A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.

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