"Assistant/Associate Clinical Professor, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences (Career-Track)"

Position Highlights

The Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona is seeking an audiologist for an Assistant or Associate Clinical Professor position who will contribute to the department's clinical teaching and service missions. This is a 12-month position to begin in May of 2026. It is a career-track appointment and not eligible for tenure.

Responsibilities include providing evidence-based patient/family-centered clinical services to adults and children with hearing loss; mentoring and educating graduate and undergraduate students through clinical activities, particularly evaluation, hearing aid fitting, and follow-up; and collaborating on scholarly projects. Candidates with experience in aural rehabilitation, humanitarian audiology, pediatrics, electrophysiology, tinnitus management, implantable devices, or auditory processing disorders are encouraged to apply.

The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences is renowned for its clinical training programs in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology as well as its active doctoral program. Our department includes 30 faculty, 104 graduate students in three degree programs (MS, AuD, PhD), and 208 undergraduate students.

Faculty in the Department benefit from rich collaborative environments within the University and the Southern Arizona communities. The audiology faculty are highly engaged in a wide variety of humanitarian audiology projects.

Outstanding U of A benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; U of A/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to U of A recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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Duties & Responsibilities

The workload in the department, under present policy, has a typical distribution of:

• 90% clinical teaching and clinical service
• 10% departmental service

Teaching and clinical service:

• Mentor and educate students during clinical service provision, using evidence-based practices for clinical education
• Provide effective evidence-based patient-centered clinical services to adults and children (i.e., evaluation, hearing aid fitting, follow-up)
• Provide additional evidence-based patient/family-centered clinical services as needed and based on clinical skill set (e.g., aural rehabilitation, implantable devices, pediatrics, APD, tinnitus).
• Engage in lifelong learning and continuous process improvement
• Collaborate on scholarly projects
• Interdisciplinary collaboration (e.g., with speech-language pathology, otolaryngology, neurology)

Service activities include but are not limited to:

• Participate effectively on departmental and university committees
• Participate in student recruitment/admission/retention
• Relate and interact successfully and collegially with students and peers

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum qualifications, corresponding to rank:

• AuD or PhD
• Qualify for AZ licensure and ASHA certification
• At least 2 years of experience as an audiologist
• Previous experience as a preceptor or clinical instructor
• Experience with patient/family-centered care
• Recent experience working with adults with hearing aids
• Experience with at least one of the following specialty areas: aural rehabilitation, electrophysiology, tinnitus management, implantable devices, or auditory processing disorders

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in service delivery in more than one language, preferably languages commonly spoken in Southern Arizona
• Experience in collaborating on scholarly projects

Rank:

To be Determined

Tenure Information

Career-Track (CT)

FLSA:

Exempt

Full Time/Part Time:

Full Time

Number of Hours Worked per Week:

40

Job FTE:

1.0

Work Calendar:

Fiscal

Job Category:

Faculty

Benefits Eligible:

Yes - Full Benefits

Rate of Pay:

$75,000 - $90,000 (depending on rank)

Compensation Type:

salary at 1.0 full-time equivalency (FTE)

Type of criminal background check required:

Name-based criminal background check (non-security sensitive)

Number of Vacancies:

1

Contact Information for Candidates

Robin Samlan, PhD, MBA, CCC-SLP
Associate Professor, Associate Department Head & Director of Clinical Education
rsamlan@arizona.edu

Open Until Filled:

Yes

Documents Needed to Apply:

Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter, and One Additional Document

Special Instructions to Applicant

Interested candidates should submit the following:

• Cover Letter that includes description of your experience with and approach to clinical instruction
• Curriculum Vitae
• Contact information for three professional references