Faculty - Assistant/Associate Professor of Old Testament or New Testament

About North Park

Founded in 1891, North Park University is a Christian university affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church of over 3,200 students from around the country and the world. Located for over 125 years on the land of the Miami and Potawatomi tribes in what is today Chicago’s northside, NPU has recently been designated a Hispanic Serving Institution and is committed to serving diverse populations. Elevating North Park University’s core distinctives of Christian, city-centered, and intercultural, NPU values diversity among its faculty and is committed to building a racially and culturally diverse intellectual community, and strongly encourages the nomination and candidacies of persons who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color regardless of gender.

North Park University is located in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, one of the most ethnically diverse zip codes in the United States. It is nine miles from downtown Chicago. The North Park campus has often been referred to as an oasis in the heart of the city – a place where students from urban, rural, and suburban backgrounds alike can call home. And all of this within the major metropolitan backdrop of Chicago: one of the world’s largest and most diversified economies, renowned for its museums and music, and voted best large city in the U.S. for four years in a row by Condé Nast Traveler.

Mission

The mission of North Park University is to prepare students for lives of significance and service through education in the liberal arts, professional studies, and theology.

Vision

Building on our core institutional identity—Christian, city-centered, intercultural—our vision is to create a university of uncommon character and enduring excellence, where faith, learning, and service meet.

Position Summary

North Park Theological Seminary invites applications and nominations for a full-time, tenure track position in the biblical field, New Testament or Old Testament, starting Fall 2024. Rank and salary commensurate to qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities

• Teach core and elective courses, for the biblical field in the seminary’s Master of Divinity and Master of Arts programs (typically 15 hours or 5 courses per academic year). The successful candidate will teach the seminary’s beginning biblical Greek 1–2 sequence in addition to core and elective courses in area of expertise.
• Engage productively in research, publish, and speak professionally according to one’s scholarly interests.
• Advise and mentor graduate students in a seminary program that focuses on ministerial formation and vocation.
• Contribute to standard faculty responsibilities such as committees, assessment, regular office hours, meetings, convocations and commencement events, lectureships, symposia, and seminary community life. (Please note that this is not a remote position.)
• Collaborate with the wider university and the Evangelical Covenant Church.

Requirements

• PhD, ThD, or equivalent research doctoral degree
• Superior teaching ability in exegeting the biblical text in its ancient historical and cultural context and theologically applying the message of the text for the mission and ministry of the church
• Skills to teach courses in more than one sub-discipline of Old Testament or New Testament studies and related disciplines in theological education
• Proficiency with technology and ability to teach effectively within various modes of educational deployment, including the traditional in-person classroom, synchronous and asynchronous online instruction, and hyflex and hybrid courses
• Demonstrated ability and potential for research, publication, and speaking for the academy and church
• Commitment to the seminary’s core values of forming leaders for pastoral ministry and holistic service
• Compatibility with the theology and ethos of the Evangelical Covenant Church (see, for example, documents linked below)
• Commitment to North Park University’s core values of being Christian, city-centered, and intercultural
• Ordination preferred

About North Park Seminary:

North Park Theological Seminary is the denominational seminary of the Evangelical Covenant Church and is part of North Park University. Located for over 125 years on the tribal land of the Miami and Potawatomi tribes in what is today’s Chicago’s northside, North Park is committed to excellenc