Adjunct- Public Budgeting & Financial Management

About Worcester State University

WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY is a liberal arts and sciences university with a long tradition of academic excellence dating back to 1874, as well as an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to reflect the diversity of its community. Our workforce is dedicated to academic quality, student-centered programming, engaged citizenship, open exchanges of ideas, diversity and inclusiveness, and civility and integrity. We are looking for job applicants who share these values and commitment to our students.

Worcester State is centrally located in Massachusetts, about an hour's drive from Boston, Springfield, and Providence, Rhode Island. Our 58-acre campus is nestled in the residential northwest side of Worcester--the second largest city in New England and home to 37,000 college students at more than a dozen colleges and universities. Over 6,000 of those students attend Worcester State--approximately 5,300 are undergraduates and 1,000 are graduate students. Learn more about us at worcester.edu/about.

Job Description

The Department of Urban Studies at Worcester State University seeks to fill an adjunct position starting Fall 2025, in public budgeting and financial management. The department houses three master's degree programs including: A Master of Science in Nonprofit Management, a Master of Public Administration and Policy, and a Master of Public Management. The instructor would be expected to teach courses in Financial Management to nonprofit and public management students, and Public Budgeting and Financial Management to students in the public administration and policy program.

The graduate programs run in the evening from Monday to Thursday, and each course runs once a week either in-person, online or in blended format.

The ideal candidate will be committed to instruction at the graduate level that recognizes differences in learning styles among students from multiple academic disciplines, and multicultural and multigenerational experiences. Students in the graduate programs are typically non-accountants, and the instructor would be expected to adapt and distill course content to that audience.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least a master's degree (earned Ph.D. or ABD preferred) in accounting, finance or related fields. Candidates with an MPA with a background in accounting and finance are also eligible to apply.
• Strong communication skills and capability of teaching graduate students. College teaching experience preferred.
• Candidates with industry experience particularly in municipal and state government are preferred.