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Assistant Professor of Range Management

The Department of Natural Resources Management in the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Range Management position with research, teaching, and service responsibilities to begin as early as August 2026.

In line with TTU's strategic priorities to engage and empower a varied student body, enable innovative research and creative activities, and transform lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship, applicants should have experience working with various student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels within individual or across all areas of teaching, and/or research/creative activity, and/or service.

As a faculty member in the Department of Natural Resources Management you will be expected to conduct scholarship focused on range ecology and/or management, externally fund a vibrant lab of graduate and undergraduate students, develop a program of outreach and engagement with stakeholders, including state and federal agencies, private natural resources managers, students, teachers, and researchers, as well as relevant scientific or professional societies. Teaching expectation is three classes across the two long semesters of the academic year with additional teaching opportunities in the summer for added compensation.

Faculty Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Range Ecology and/or Management, Plant Biology, Ecology, or closely related field.
• A strong record of peer-reviewed publications focused on Rangeland Plant Ecology and/or Management.
• Strong commitment to teaching in the area of range plant ecology and natural resources management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or a record indicative of conducting and publishing research on the use of fire, mechanical, and/or chemical approaches to innovate range management; or research that informs novel advances at the intersection of range animal nutrition; or research that improves understanding of wildlife-habitat relationships.
• Experience in or a record indicative of obtaining grant funding.
• Experience in or a record indicative of teaching undergraduate and/or graduate courses on fire, mechanical, and/or chemical weed and brush control; range animal nutrition; or wildlife-habitat relationships in rangelands.
• Experience mentoring undergraduate and/or graduate student research.
• Evidence of working with and/or developing partnerships with landowners, government agencies, industry groups, and/or public interest groups.
• Evidence of or a record indicative of working in interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research teams.

Please include the following documents in your application:

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Cover Letter
3. A research statement describing your past and current research along with your plans for research at TTU
4. A teaching plan describing your philosophy on teaching and student mentorship and plans/goals for teaching at TTU
5. List of 3 references

Questions about this position should be directed to Dr. Caitlyn Cooper-Norris, Search Committee Chair at caitlyn.e.cooper@ttu.edu.