Among other positions advertised elsewhere, the Department of Psychology at Florida International University (FIU) and the Center for Children and Families (CCF) at FIU are searching for possible multiple open-rank tenure track positions in the APA-approved Clinical Science Program in Child and Adolescent Psychology, or the doctoral program in Cognitive Neuroscience, as well as quantitative methods. A total of three tenure-track lines are available for these joint positions—one rank open, one senior, and one junior. Mid-rank and senior candidates must have a strong record of publications and substantial active federal grant funding. Junior candidates must have a demonstrated evidence of or very strong potential for extramural funding and a solid record of scholarship in refereed journals. In addition to these tenure track positions, the CCF has expected positions for multiple Clinical and Research Assistant Professors and postdoctoral fellows.
One to three Clinical Science positions will be joint appointments with the Center for Children and Families, a Preeminent Program at FIU. Candidates for those positions can be in any area of child or adolescent clinical science, including treatment outcome, prevention, or etiology, though some preference exists for individuals with interests in conduct problems/aggression, substance use prevention or treatment (e.g., teens), reading or mathematic disabilities, school-based interventions (e.g., RtI), or autism. Candidates for a joint CCF-Psychology position in Cognitive Neuroscience must have an interest in collaborative basic research (e.g., attention, memory, learning, motivation in children or adolescents) in an area relevant to Clinical Science for children and adolescents—e.g., ADHD, anxiety, conduct problems, learning problems, substance use in children or teens. Candidates for a joint position in Quantitative Methods must be interested in the kinds of collaborative research being conducted in the Center—e.g., longitudinal methods of intervention and/or outcomes, mediators or moderators or measurement of psychopathology or response to intervention, new designs for studying treatment outcome (e.g., MOST or SMART designs)—and a strong interest in collaboration with Child and Adolescent Clinical Science colleagues on grant submissions and federally-funded projects. The successful candidate would join four other center-affiliated faculty with expertise in quantitative methods.
Currently, joint CCF/Psychology faculty hold more than $50 million in grants from federal agencies (e.g., NIMH, NICHD, NIDA, NIAAA, IES), ranking 44th nationally on research and development expenditures for psychology according to the latest NSF Higher Education Research and Development Survey. Collaborative research is emphasized, and many faculty share investigator status on grants.
The CCF is an interdisciplinary Center and FIU Preeminent Program that focuses on research, education, and service in the area of child and adolescent mental health. The CCF has more than 35 faculty—with about half being affiliated with the Clinical Science program in the Psychology Department and half with another departmental program (Cognitive Neuroscience) or Schools of Education, International and Public Affairs, Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine. Thirty of the CCF faculty are funded with NIH or IES funding (more than $58 M in total funding), including an ABCD site grant, and 11 faculty have won national early- or lifetime-career awards in the past 3 years. The CCF has 70 full-time staff in administrative, research, clinical, and grant support, and more than 90 part-time staff, including a data management/support team and a grants management team. Approximately 100 graduate students from the psychology department are affiliated with the Center–50 from the Psychology Clinical Science doctoral program, which is largely housed in the CCF, and the other half from the department’s applied, evidence-based, masters program in mental health counseling, whose students do practicum training in the CCF and have a strong curriculum in evidence-based practices.
The CCF houses a fully-functioning and growing mental health clinic focusing on children/teens that provides services to 3000-3500 families annually and can bill insurers for clinical services. The Children’s Trust of Miami-Dade provides the CCF with more than $2 M of annual funding to provide services to children and adolescents, and the State and University provide another $2 M of annual funding for the Center. The CCF has extensive community contacts to facilitate referrals for services and recruitment for clinical trials with a combined two-county South Florida population of more than 7 million. The Miami-Dade and Broward School Districts are the fourth and seventh largest in the U.S with 600,000 pupils between them. The available population of children has enormous socioeconomic and ethnic diversity that are of interest to funding agencies.
CCF and Psychology Department faculty have access to a research-dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility that supports a 3T Siemens MAGNETOM Prism, is equipped to run the Human Connectome Protocol, and shares space with the CCF. The CCF faculty, staff, and students are housed in new space across four contiguous buildings on campus, with extensive office, observation, therapy, research, and video facilities.
The psychology department is strongly committed to a climate that embraces diversity, and is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity of the academic community through research, teaching, and service. The psychology department has 38 tenure-track faculty, 18 instructors and research/clinical faculty, 9 full-time undergraduate advisors, and over 4,000 undergraduate majors. The department and CCF are young and vibrant, with 40 new faculty hires in the past 7 years.
In addition to the tenure-track positions noted above, non-tenure track openings for Clinical and Research faculty are routinely available in the CCF, contingent upon faculty grant funding. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact the Director of the CCF, William E. Pelham, with inquiries (email below). Additionally, the CCF has openings beginning in Fall 2018 for two, 2-year postdoctoral positions in the areas of Clinical Science noted above. Interested applicants should contact directly a CCF faculty member with whom they have overlapping interests or Dr. Pelham.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply to Job Opening IDs 514184 (Clinical Science), 514307 (Cognitive Neuroscience), at facultycareers.fiu.edu, and attach a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research and, as appropriate, teaching or clinical interests, and diversity statement as a single pdf file. Candidates will be requested to provide names and contact information for at least four references who will be contacted upon submission of the application. Candidates are also requested to send an electronic copy of their materials, as appropriate, to the Chair of the Clinical Science/CCF Search Committee, William Pelham, Ph.D. (wpelham@fiu.edu), or Chair of the Cognitive Neuroscience Search Committee, Anthony Dick, Ph.D. (adick@fiu.edu); applicants interested in a joint quantitative position should contact Dr. Pelham, Director of the CCF. First review of applications will be on November 30, 2017, but applications will continue to be accepted and review will continue until the positions are filled.
FIU is a member of the State University System of Florida and an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.