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AY2024-25 Academic Job Postings in Probability

Here are some job postings for the 2024-25 academic year aimed at probability hires. If you would like for your position to be advertised here or distributed to our mailing list, please contact us. Click on each posting for more information.

UNC Chapel Hill, tenure track

UNC Chapel Hill, postdoc

University of Virginia, tenure track

UC Berkeley, lecturer

Case Western Reserve University, tenure track

The Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is searching for at least one tenure-track assistant professor in Statistics to begin in Fall 2024. Preference will be given to candidates whose research is in areas of statistics that complement and enhance the existing expertise in the department and who can meaningfully interact with the current group of statisticians, probabilists, and applied mathematicians in the department. This hiring is part of an effort to continue building a statistics group that collaborates with faculty in other fields, including, for example, data science, biology, physics, astronomy, biostatistics, as well as researchers in the Schools of Engineering, Management, and Medicine.

All candidates must hold a PhD in Statistics or a related field by the time of the appointment, have demonstrated teaching/mentoring experience, and have a publication record appropriate to rank. Candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of current and future research plans, a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, and the candidate should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be submitted directly by the writers, at least one of which should address teaching. In addition, applicants are asked to submit a statement explaining how they value diversity, equity, and inclusion within their research and discipline(s) and how their own scholarly work might contribute to structural justice inside and outside institutions of higher learning. This statement should also suggest how the candidate’s work, while as a member of Case Western Reserve University, will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion and how moving forward they intend to foster a culture of diversity, pluralism, and individual difference.

All application materials should be submitted electronically via Interfolio at apply.interfolio.com/129064. Applications will be reviewed upon arrival. All applications received prior to October 1st, 2023, will receive full consideration.

General correspondence about this position should be sent to Jenny Brynjarsdottir, Search Committee Chair, at jenny.brynjarsdottir@case.edu.

Case Western Reserve University is located in the University Circle cultural district of Cleveland, Ohio, home of the nationally top-ranked Cleveland Clinic, internationally famous Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Within a five-mile radius from CWRU are the nation's second largest theater district, several professional sports teams, a wide range of musical, artistic, and culinary venues, recreational opportunities, and numerous diverse communities in which to live.

Case Western Reserve University strives to maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment. All applicants are protected under Federal law from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age and genetics.

Case Western Reserve University provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Equity at 216.368.3066 or equity@case.edu to request a reasonable accommodation. Determinations as to granting reasonable accommodations for any applicant will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Job Application Materials

Navigating the job market can be stressful. Here is a brief rundown of what you need and what you need to do. A great resource for job-seekers is the AMS Job Hunt page. It includes much more detailed information than we cover here.

Portfolio

Academic jobs require several standard items. Click on each title for more information.

MathJobs.org Account

Create an account on mathjobs.org. This is the central repository for academic jobs in math: the vast majority of academic jobs are posted on mathjobs and you can apply here directly. All of your materials will be uploaded to mathjobs, as will your letter writers' recommendations.

Curriculum vitae

Research Statement

Teaching Statement

Cover Letter

Publication List

Personal Website

Academic jobs will require 3-5 letters of recommendation, 1-2 of which address teaching. One should be from your thesis advisor, and another from your postdoctoral advisor, if you are in a postdoctoral position; the remaining letters should be from people who have had an opportunity to examine your work. Your teaching letter should be from a faculty member who observes your class. Make sure to

Ask prospective letter writers early, ideally months before you begin applying.
Provide letter writers with a list of schools to which you are applying and their deadlines. This will help them get their letters in on time.
Give letter writers copies of your CV and statements when you have them.

For your teaching letter, you should consider asking someone to observe your teaching in the Spring semester before you go on the job market or at the latest, early in the Fall semester of your final year.

When making your list of schools to which you will apply, spend some time thinking about the faculty at the various institutions. If you know anyone there or if there are people whose work aligns with yours, you should contact them. Say that you are applying for a job at their institution and mention briefly your research interests and how they might mesh. There are many applicants for each position in general, and small touches like this can help your application stand out.

Increasingly, universities and colleges are requiring submission of applications through institution-specific web portals. There are now (paid) services like Dossier Deliver (by interfolio from Elsevier) that can help you manage your application materials, including centralized confidential upload of letters of recommendation.

Online Profile

Your website is the basis of your profile on the web. Prospective employers will use this to look at your academic and job materials. These days,

you must have a website, even if you are not looking for a new job.
Your university will usually host a page for you, or you can choose to use something like Google Sites. Free templates are easily available (for example Free CSS Templates), or you can simply “steal” the code from a page that you like. Of course, in the latter case, one should attribute the source.

Academic pages for researchers on the market have a fairly standard format.

Main Page

Research Page

Teaching Page

You should also include in your webpage some tracking / analytical cookies. This will help you gauge interest by seeing from where traffic comes. Google Analytics is a free, simple to use system that gives great data.

You should make sure to post any preprints ready for publication to the ArXiv. Some people also choose to add to their online profile by maintaining portfolios on ResearchGate or LinkedIn. If you choose to start a portfolio in one of these online venues, you should make sure that you keep it updated!

Liberal Arts Colleges

If you are applying to liberal arts jobs, you should have more data available to make a case for your teaching prowess. You should craft a teaching portfolio including

Teaching Evaluations

Syllabi

Outside Resources and Job Lists

There are several websites dedicated to helping you navigate the job search and to providing lists of jobs in the mathematical sciences.