Assistant Professor - Sport Leadership in Administration

Assistant Professor - Sport Leadership in Administration

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Job no: 528498
Position Type: Faculty Full Time
Campus: UMass Boston
Department: Couns. School Psych. & Sport
Pay Grade: 03
Date opened: 23 Sep 2025 Eastern Daylight Time
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We are seeking an outstanding candidate to join our faculty in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston as a tenure‑track Assistant Professor of Sport Leadership and Administration to begin September 1, 2026. Of particular interest are candidates with scholarly expertise in equity in sport and whose teaching, research, and service will advance our college mission and the commitments outlined in our university strategic plan (page 11).

The position also offers opportunities for collaboration with UMass Boston’s Collaborative of Asian American, Native American, Latino, and African American Institutes (CANALA - UMass Boston) with socio‑culturally diverse populations and interest in collaborative interdisciplinary research.

Ph.D. or Ed.D. from a Sport Management, Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, Sport Psychology, Sport Sociology, or related field.

The College of Education and Human Development is ranked the top public school of education in the state of Massachusetts (U.S. News and World Report, 2025) and is guided by our core values of social justice, community engagement and academic excellence. The Sport Leadership and Administration program is housed in CEHD’s Counseling, School Psychology and Sport Department, which also includes two APA Accredited Programs in Counseling Psychology and School Psychology, MPCAC‑Accredited Masters Programs in School Counseling and Mental Health Counseling, NASP‑Accredited Masters and Ed.S. Programs in School Psychology, a graduate certificate program in Applied Behavior Analysis, and a B.A. in Sport Leadership and Administration.

The mission of the Sport Leadership and Administration program is to cultivate equity‑minded, character‑driven, and transformational leaders who will positively improve society through sport. The program prepares students for careers within the sport industry with the goal of transforming and improving organizations and communities.

The University of Massachusetts Boston is the only Research 1 public university in the Greater Boston area. UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country – more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university.

Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio‑cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who reflect the diverse life experiences…