Assistant or Associate Research Professor – Transportation Data Analysis/Modeling, Programming, and Database Management

Title: Assistant or Associate Research Professor – Transportation Data Analysis/Modeling, Programming, and Database Management

Employee Classification: Research Associate Professor

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Provost

SubDivision-Department: UNT-Ryan College of Business

Department: UNT-Ctr-LSCM-131720

Job Location: Austin

Salary: Compensation is competitive and commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications, experience, and discipline, in accordance with university guidelines and available funding.

FTE: 1.00

Retirement Eligibility: ORP Eligible

About Us - Values Overview:

Welcome to the University of North Texas System. The UNT System includes the University of North Texas in Denton and Frisco, the University of North Texas at Dallas and UNT Dallas College of Law, and the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. We are the only university system based exclusively in the robust Dallas-Fort Worth region. We are growing with the North Texas region, employing more than 14,000 employees, educating a record 49,000+ students across our system, and awarding nearly 12,000 degrees each year.   We are one team comprised of individuals who are committed to excellence, curiosity and innovation. We are transforming lives and creating economic opportunity through education. We champion a people-first values-based culture where We Care about each other and those we serve. We believe that we are Better Together because we foster an environment of respect, belonging, and access for all. We demonstrate Courageous Integrity through setting exceptional standards and acting in the best interest of our communities. We are encouraged to Be Curious about opportunities for learning, creating, discovering, and innovating, and are encouraged to learn from failure. Show Your Fire by joining our team and exhibiting your passion and pride in your work as part of our UNT System team.   Learn more about the UNT System and how we live our values at www.UNTSystem.edu.

Department Summary

The mission of the Center for Logistics & Supply Chain Management is to facilitate the formulation and implementation of research and education necessary to produce effective strategies and qualified people to meet the rapidly changing knowledge demands of the 2000’s.

The Center for Logistics & Supply Chain Management conducts all of its activities with a focus on high ethical standards, the pursuit of excellence, and respect for all individuals.
Our value propositions include:
• Provide networking opportunities for our industry partners and students to help facilitate internships and permanent employment.
• Provide logistics industry professionals with preferred opportunities for continuing education courses and workshops, certificate programs, executive roundtables, symposiums, and conferences.
• Provide our industry partners with resources and opportunities to network among corporations, faculty, business experts and leaders and researchers.
• Provide educational and learning opportunities in the form of research reports and seminars.
• Provide industry professionals with a forum to create a long-term impact on the education of future logistics professionals.
• Help industry partners with meeting their responsibilities to advance the educational opportunities for students and their employees, and improve the supply of professionals available to industry, which advances DFW as a world-class logistics center and creates a better quality of life in the North Texas Region.


UNT has a highly diverse campus with a wide range of languages spoken in addition to English. We welcome candidates who have experience with HSI/MSIs and/or who speak Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin and other variations), Arabic, Tagalog, Farsi, French, or/and Yoruba.

Position Overview

The Center for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of North Texas (UNT) is seeking an Assistant or Associate Research Professor with substantial professional experience performing quantitative data analysis, data visualization, modeling, database management, and programming to address practical problems in transportation planning and policy. The candidate should have 10+ years of progressive, professional work experience, either as an academic researcher and/or as a consultant. This experience will have incorporated the extensive use of technical tools that include: geographic information systems (GIS)