"Grigg Endowed Professorship"

The School of Education at Johns Hopkins University (https://education.jhu.edu) invites nominations and applications for the position of Grigg Endowed Professor at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank. The School of Education seeks a productive and publicly engaged scholar, preferably trained in economics, with quantitative expertise including experience teaching research methods courses. This is a tenure-eligible position.

Working collaboratively across the School, the Grigg Professor will contribute vision, energy, and consensus-building abilities to the ongoing development of a young and highly-ranked graduate school of education. The Grigg Professor will provide intellectual leadership in scholarship, policy engagement, and teaching with a focus on relevant education topics at the K-12 or potentially the post-secondary level.

The Grigg Professor will join the School of Education and the broader University at an exciting time. Of particular importance, the Grigg Professor will identify opportunities to collaborate with the University’s new School for Government and Policy, announced in October 2023, which is based in Washington, D.C. at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center. This school is Hopkins’ first new academic division since the School of Education in 2007. The University’s investment in policy and its expanding presence in Washington, D.C., create exciting opportunities for collaborations in programs, events, faculty recruitment, and fundraising. Other Hopkins’ schools, including the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, offer additional opportunities for collaboration.

The Grigg Professorship

The Grigg Professorship, the School’s first endowed position, is named in honor of the late Jeffrey Alexander Grigg, an assistant professor and noted education researcher beloved in the SOE community. The Grigg Professorship was endowed by Jeffrey Grigg’s father, Douglas Grigg, and an anonymous donor with the express purpose of recruiting, retaining, and/or recognizing a School of Education faculty member whose primary focus is research. The annual distribution from the endowment underwrites research and provides salary support for the Grigg Professor.

Qualifications

Candidates considered for the Grigg Professorship will be scholars who bring vision, and a demonstrated record of productivity and creativity to conducting policy-relevant education research. The successful candidate will have credentials that merit appointment as an assistant or associate professor. The Grigg Professor may be based in D.C. or Baltimore and will sustain significant in-person presence in the School and the larger university.

The School of Education is particularly interested in applications from scholars with broad perspectives on education policy and/or educational pluralism and research on the role of governments, markets, and private actors. Candidates should use rigorous quantitative research methods to inform their scholarship. Scholars applying for this position should be enthusiastic about teaching in programs at the master’s and doctoral levels.

Required qualifications

• An earned doctoral degree in Education, Economics, Policy, or another social science field
• A record of teaching, research, service, or professional experience commensurate with a tenure-track or tenured faculty appointment at the School of Education
• Demonstrated record of innovative mixed-methods scholarship with publications in relevant and high-impact peer-reviewed journals
• A commitment to and record of experience and impact relevant to the School’s vision, mission, and values

Appointment Terms

The Grigg Professorship is a full-time faculty position with nine months of salary plus the opportunity to cover summer salary from endowment, grants, and other sources. The budgeted nine-month salary range for the role, depending on qualifications, rank, and experience, is $140,009 – $214,580. The tenure home is likely to be the department of Counseling & Educational Studies. Depending on the appointee’s credentials, a cross-appointment in another Hopkins academic division will be possible. Participation in centers or institutes within the School of Education and beyond is also welcome.

The search committee and the dean may consider candidates from outside the academy if their credentials and record of leadership are consistent with the School’s and University’s faculty-appointment standards.

The full position description can be viewed here.

The School of Education has engaged Opus Partners (www.opuspartners.net) to support the recruitment of the Grigg Endowed Professor. Craig Smith, Senior Partner, and Jeffrey Stafford, Senior Associate, are leading the search. Candidates should send their CV and an introductory letter of interest addressing their qualifications and speaking to their understanding of and interest in the mission of the School of Education to Jeffrey.stafford@opuspartners.net. Nominations, recommendations, and inquiries should go to the same address. Every effort will be made to ensure candidate confidentiality.