The Department of Social Work in the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont (UVM) seeks applicants for full-time, nine-month, tenure-track positions who wish to join a socially progressive department and vibrant intellectual community with a distinct social work orientation. Their unique academic programs emphasize critical social construction, human rights, social justice, and a strengths perspective. Their dynamic faculty values creative scholarship and teaching, collegiality, and a sense of humor. They believe that pursuing human rights and social, economic and environmental justice through transformative change is an important dimension of social work education, practice and scholarship.

The department is moving into its next phase of articulating transformative social work and its significance in light of the dilemmas and inequities facing a diversity of people and their communities. It welcomes applicants with a particular interest in joining this distinct commitment.