Professional Asst Professor of Sports Management (66285)

Position Summary

Walsh University and its growing DeVille School of Business invites applications (rank open) for a non-tenure-track professional position in sports management beginning the fall of 2025. The preferred candidate will ideally have experience in a sports-related business. Applicants who hold a degree in management, marketing, quantitative methods, or similar degree, are preferred.

The successful candidate should be experienced and comfortable teaching in an environment that includes a catholic worldview as well as integrated and experiential learning pedagogy.

Walsh University is a Catholic Institution which offers liberal arts undergraduate, graduate, and adult completion programs and is dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a value-based education with an international perspective in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

The sports management major boasts the second most students in the DSoB and is its fastest growing major.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

Responsibilities: Reporting directly to the Dean, the successful candidate will play a vital role in the design and instruction of courses in both the business core and the sports management major of the DeVille School of Business at Walsh University. The successful candidate will engage in teaching-related responsibilities and duties which include but are not limited to:

• Instructing 24 credit hours, 12 credit hours in each of the fall and spring semesters, along with an appropriate expectation for scholarship or professional development (based upon rank)
• Teaching specialization in sports management. Additional teaching skills in marketing or quantitative methods is preferred.
• Teaching, developing, and revising courses and curriculum for graduate and undergraduate programs
• Participating in assurance of learning
• Engaging with students inside of and outside of the classroom, mentor students, advise students
• Attending and actively participating in general activities of the DeVille School of Business
• Actively engaging in ongoing professional development in the field of instruction
• The successful candidate will engage in professional development activities, through research or otherwise, with the University and DeVille School of Business missions, and with specialized accreditation expectations.
• The successful candidate will engage in service activities which include but are not limited to providing engagement with students and professional assistance to the profession, community, University, and DeVille School of Business in accordance with his/her professional acumen and breadth of experience, and will attend and actively participate in University governance activities.
• We are also searching for an MBA director.  If our new MBA director is hired with a sports management background, then this position will not be filled.  Candidates increase their chances in the search if they apply for both postings.
• Other duties as assigned or required

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) of this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or a