Associate Professor or Professor and Director of the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute
University of South Carolina
Full-time
On-site
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Full-time jobs in South Carolina
Preferred Qualifications
The successful candidate will provide leadership in advancing the core mission of HVRI by maintaining its excellence in developing interdisciplinary and convergent research on hazards, climate change adaptation, and emergency management, and training the next generation researchers and specialists for successful careers in academe, public agencies, and private sectors. HVRI has been a leader in developing geospatial approaches for understanding the distributional impacts of disasters and providing evidentiary support for equitable approaches to community resilience and disaster risk reduction. We seek an innovative scholar to maintain and grow HVRI as a national and international leader in this field.
The successful candidate will provide leadership in advancing the core mission of HVRI by maintaining its excellence in developing interdisciplinary and convergent research on hazards, climate change adaptation, and emergency management, and training the next generation researchers and specialists for successful careers in academe, public agencies, and private sectors. HVRI has been a leader in developing geospatial approaches for understanding the distributional impacts of disasters and providing evidentiary support for equitable approaches to community resilience and disaster risk reduction. We seek an innovative scholar to maintain and grow HVRI as a national and international leader in this field.