Assistant Professor (WOT) - The BRiTE Center | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI)
Position Overview
Organization: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Assistant Professor (WOT) - The BRiTE Center | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI)
Position Details
Position Description
The BRiTE Center (https://www.brite.uw.edu/) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine (https://psychiatry.uw.edu/) is seeking to hire one (1) full-time (1.0 FTE) Assistant Professor without tenure for reasons of funding (WOT) in the Faculty Scientist pathway. This position will be based within the BRiTE Center.
Assistant Professors are eligible for multi-year appointments that align with a 12-month service period (July 1-June 30). Faculty with 12-month service periods are paid for 11 months of service over a 12-month period (July-June), meaning the equivalent of one month is available for paid time off.
All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service.
Job Duties include but are not limited to:
- Develop and sustain a nationally visible, externally funded research program.
- Serve as Principal Investigator or key Co-Investigator on federal (e.g., NIH, CDC), state, foundation, and local grants.
- Maintain a consistent record of peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals across public health, digital health, mental illness, etc.
- Contribute to the BRiTE Center and Department teaching and mentoring missions.
- Provide mentorship to trainees (students, fellows, junior faculty) on developing research careers.
- Participate in Department, Center, and University service activities that align with expertise.
- Duties as assigned by the chair.
The BRiTE Center
Led by Dr. Dror Ben-Zeev, UW's Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRITE) Center is a mission-driven, grant-funded research center within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The BRiTE Center brings together a diverse group of researchers, clinicians, technologists, patients and mental health advocates with a common goal of improving the lives of those suffering with mental illness, their families, and communities. Harnessing the Pacific Northwest’s innovative spirit, we work with industry, healthcare systems large and small, colleagues from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), paraprofessionals, and individuals invested in developing creative technologies to improve population mental health, in our lifetime. BRiTE is a mission-driven, highly collaborative, fast–paced center that conducts cutting-edge digital health research designed to invent and reinvent the future of mental healthcare using digital technology.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is an integral component of the UW School of Medicine and shares UW Medicine’s mission to ‘Improve the Health of the Public.’ We accomplish this by providing the best care we can today, conducting research to develop better treatments for tomorrow, and inspiring and training the next generation of health care professionals for the Pacific Northwest. Our core values include openness, transparency, integrity, engagement, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our department is the third largest within the School of Medicine.
As the only academic psychiatry department serving Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, we are committed to improving access to psychiatric care and consultation throughout the greater Pacific Northwest. Our educational programs include a required medical student clerkship for 260 medical students per year at some 30 sites across the WWAMI region, a nationally competitive psychiatry residency program with more than 90 psychiatry residents in Seattle and in two regional residency tracks in Idaho and Montana, subspecialty fellowships in addiction, child and adolescent, consultation-liaison, perinatal mental health and geriatric psychiatry, a nationally renowned scientist-practitioner psychology internship program, and numerous post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships.
Learn more: https://psychiatry.uw.edu/
Salary
The base salary range for someone with a PhD/PsyD for an Assistant Professor position will be $9,167 - $10,417 monthly ($110,004 - $125,004 annually)
Qualifications
A PhD or comparable terminal doctoral degree or foreign equivalent.
Instructions
- CV-
- Cover Letter
- A statement detailing how your teaching, research, and/or clinical service has supported working with patients from a wide range of backgrounds. Applicants who have not yet had the opportunity for such experience should note how
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Benefits Information
A summary of benefits associated with this title/rank can be found at https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/benefits-orientation/benefit-summary-pdfs/. Appointees solely employed and paid directly by a non-UW entity are not UW employees and are not eligible for UW or Washington State employee benefits
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