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

Position Highlights

The University of Arizona's Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences seeks a Full-Time Speech-Language Pathology clinical faculty member. This is a 12-month position scheduled to begin in late fall, 2026.

The position will be expected to:

• Provide evidence-based clinical services and student clinical supervision for adult neurologically-based communication disorders.
• Lead our robust aphasia program and develop a cognitive-communication clinic.
• Participate in the teaching, scholarship, and service activities of our academic program.

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 members, 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.

This career-track appointment is not eligible for tenure.

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:

• Assess and treat clients with communication disorders.
• Participate in clinical education.
• Collaborate with departmental faculty to provide evidence-based services.
• Assist clinical program leadership with clinical administration or development as assigned.
• Teach in the classroom related to area/s of expertise as assigned.
• Develop areas of specialty practice.

Service activities include but are not limited to:

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

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum qualifications, corresponding to rank:

• Master's or Ph.D. degree in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, or equivalent.
• Five years of clinical experience as a Speech-Language Pathologist.
• Licensure or license eligibility for practice in Speech-Language Pathology in the state of Arizona.
• Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
• Previous experience providing graduate student supervision.
• Experience with adult populations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with program development.
• Experience in providing services to culturally and linguistically multifaceted populations.
• Experience with aphasia, cognitive communication disorders, and motor speech disorders.
• Spoken/written Spanish language skills.

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

Please provide a Cover Letter that includes a description of your experience with and approach to clinical instruction, your Curriculum Vitae, and Contact information for three professional references.