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The Opportunity
The College of Journalism and Communications (CJC) at the University of Florida seeks to hire an Assistant-In/Associate-In faculty position within the Innovation News Center (INC) (12-month, non-tenure track) to begin in the Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 term. We are particularly interested in candidates who understand audio journalism and have experience with Spanish language news on audio, video and digital platforms. We invite applicants who have prior teaching experience (preferred), in addition to candidates who have experience or potential to assist with scholastic journalism opportunities.
Candidates should hold a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred) in journalism, media, communication or a related field. Candidates will have the opportunity to teach both undergraduate and graduate classes, and we would especially welcome applicants with the ability to teach multiple courses in the program, including the ability to develop new courses.
The selected candidate will teach up to the equivalent of two three-credit-hour courses per semester, mentor and advise undergraduate students as assigned, manage student content creation with the INC, participate in scholarly and professional organizations, advise/produce/anchor Spanish language audio and video newscasts created within the INC, create/advise digital content multiplatform collaboration with fellow INC managers, participate in shared governance and perform other duties as assigned.
This is an in-person position based in Gainesville, FL., and will be designated as an essential employee. Policy Link: https://policy.ufl.edu/policy/essential-employees/#:~:text=Essential%20employees%20provide%20vital%20support,eligible%20to%20designated%20as%20essential.
More about UF’s College of Journalism and Communications
Accredited by ACEJMC, the college has earned its reputation for excellence over the last half century on the strength of its programs, faculty, students and alumni; the stories they tell; and the difference they make around the world. The college provides immersive learning through the INC; Fresh Take Florida; project-based and study abroad journalistic courses; the Agency, the Division of Multimedia Properties; the Summer Media Institute for high school students; extensive research offerings; and many more extracurricular groups and programs. Our 84 full-time faculty members and 139 part-time colleagues serve in four academic departments: Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations and Media Production Management and Technology. We enroll about 2,400 undergraduates both in-person and on-line. Nearly 120 graduate students are earning master’s and doctoral degrees. Another 750 are pursuing online master’s and graduate certificates.
More about the University of Florida
The University of Florida is the flagship university for the state of Florida. Located in Gainesville in the north of the peninsula about an hour and a half to either the Gulf or Atlantic coast, UF has 16 colleges, a major academic health center and a land-grant mission that gives it one of the nation’s most comprehensive agriculture and natural resource programs. The 2,000-acre campus spans from UF’s historic red-brick core to a major hospital and health complex, championship sports facilities and tech start-up district linking to the city’s lively downtown.
Driven by a preeminence strategy that has added 600 new faculty positions in recent years, UF is ranked 7th among the nation’s top public research universities in the 2025 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings. The university has a $10 billion annual budget and is included in the Carnegie Commission’s list of leading research universities. We have 32,000 employees and our 60,000-plus students come from all 50 states and more than 100 countries.
Our 6,600 faculty members have distinguished records in teaching, research, and service, including 22 Eminent Scholar Chairs, 38 elected members of the National Academies, 20 elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 91 elected members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2024, UF research expenditures topped $1.26 billion.
CJC is among the top colleges for journalism and communications in the world. Our faculty are collaborative and ambitious for ourselves and our students. We publish in top professional and research outlets. Our students are regularly recognized in national and regional journalism awards including Hearst, Murrow, Emmys, Tellys, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Online News Association, the Broadcast Education Association, the Society of Environmental Journalists and many others. Our engaged alumni, who lead newsrooms and report across the globe, have won 32 Pulitzer Prizes.
Our immersive teaching model trains undergraduate and graduate students on professional platforms to produce high-caliber news content for mass audiences. Journalism faculty collaborate with our colleagues in CJC’s Media Production Management and Technology, Public Relations, and Advertising departments on contemporary curriculum to prepare students for a wide range of careers. We also partner across disciplines with faculty in UF’s 15 other colleges on projects ranging from college sports ethics to helping the world visualize climate change.
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