Non-Tenure Track Position - Financial Accounting - Log 25-048
Atlanta, GA 
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Non-Tenure Track Position (Financial Accounting) – Log #25-048
School of Accountancy
Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

The School of Accountancy, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University is accepting applications for a non-tenure track lecturer position starting Fall 2024. This position will include teaching and service involving administrative duties. This position will serve as the coordinator of our first undergraduate financial accounting course (Principles of Accounting I), a required course for all Robinson undergraduates. The role of the coordinator includes:
  • Overseeing the curriculum of the course across multiple sections each semester. This includes selection of textbook and homework problems; preparation of exam questions and exercises; and maintenance of course materials.
  • Ensuring consistent quality of teaching across course sections, working with a diverse set of fulltime and part-time instructors.
  • Interviewing, hiring, and training Teaching Assistants to staff our accounting tutoring lab.
Required qualifications include:
  • A Master’s degree in accounting or a related field (e.g., MBA)
  • Demonstrated excellence in teaching financial accounting and the university level (e.g.,
Preferred qualifications include:
  • Experience with curriculum innovation
  • Experience teaching data analytics, particularly Excel
  • Leadership ability
About the School of Accountancy
The successful application will join a school whose faculty and staff are committed to innovative teaching, diverse, equitable, and inclusive excellence, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Programmatic innovations have emphasized data analytics, online content, and professional norms. Academic programs include the B.B.A. undergraduate program, a Master’s in Professional Accountancy, a Master’s in Taxation, an MBA with an accounting concentration, and a Ph.D. program in Accounting.
The School of Accountancy enjoys a close relationship with the accounting profession in the region and around the country. All Big Four firms have large offices within close proximity of the school’s location, several within walking distance of the downtown campus. We also maintain close connections with other national, regional, and local accounting firms, as well as corporate employers.

About the J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business is the ninth largest accredited business school in the United States and the largest graduate business school in the Southeast. For more than 100 years, Robinson has contributed to Atlanta’s impact as a regional, national, and international hub for creativity and innovation.
The vision for the college’s five-year strategic plan, Accelerate 2025, is “innovation for all.” Our mission is to” prepare people from all backgrounds to lead, innovate, and achieve their potential to advance business and society. Robinson recognizes the unrivaled potential of free enterprise to improve lives. We design and implement solutions that advance how businesses and markets function to make a world where all citizens prosper.”
Robinson has broken the business school mold by assembling a faculty encompassing business practitioners, researchers, engineers, scientists, and mathematicians. These experts ensure Robinson students build business acumen and sector-crossing skills in STEM fields, college partners benefit from broader thinking, and collaborate on pioneering, interdisciplinary research to develop breakthrough market solutions.
The college has 12 academic units and offers two MBA programs, 15 master’s, three graduate certificates in innovation, two doctoral programs (a Ph.D. program with 11 areas of study and a Doctor of Business Administration), and 11 undergraduate majors.
It offers a suite of signature programs, including WomenLead, its nationally recognized undergraduate leadership program, and week-long residencies for high-performing students on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.
Robinson has broad and deep relationships with the Atlanta business community through its insight (analytics) labs focusing on fintech, operations, and social media. The college also is home to discipline-specific roundtables in financial leadership, human resources, logistics, marketing, and sales.

About Georgia State University
Georgia State University is a national model for innovation and opening opportunities for all, ranked 2nd most innovative by U.S. News & World Report, ranked 1st among public universities in undergraduate teaching, the number 1 nonprofit university to award bachelor’s degrees to African American students, 6th in the country for its first-year student experience, and highly ranked for enabling the social and economic mobility of its students. Among the most diverse universities in the nation, Georgia State opens global perspectives as the number 1 U.S. public university sending African American students to study abroad.
A regional gateway to higher education, the five suburban Perimeter College campuses provide more than 30 associate degree pathways. The downtown Atlanta campus offers more than 250 degree programs in 100 fields of study at the undergraduate, graduate and first-professional degree levels.
With five university-wide research centers and numerous centers and institutes at the college and school levels, Georgia State’s interdisciplinary, dynamic and productive research enterprises address major health and societal challenges.
Georgia State is vital to the regional economy, with a more than $2.9 billion economic impact, and is also a vital part of Atlanta’s vibrant arts and entertainment community, with highly regarded programs in music, art, creative writing and film, the Rialto Center for the Arts, and the Creative Media Industries Institute that contributes to innovation and the workforce for interactive media and media entrepreneurship. 

About Atlanta
The Atlanta metropolitan area has a population of 6.1 million and a gross domestic product of $406 billion. Atlanta is the tenth largest economy of cities in the U.S. and the 20th largest in the world. Its economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors in industries including transportation, aerospace, logistics, healthcare, news and media operations, film and television production, information technology, finance, and biomedical research and public policy.
According to the 2022 Fortune 500 and Fortune 1,000 list of America’s largest companies based on revenue, 31 companies headquartered in metro Atlanta are among the Fortune 1,000, of which 17 are Fortune 500 companies. It also is a major transportation hub. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world’s busiest airport, and the Port of Savannah is the third busiest U.S. port and in the top 30 worldwide. Situated in the Piedmont region of the Southeast, Atlanta has a moderate climate and is said to have the densest urban tree canopy of any major city in North America. 

Further Information and Application Procedure
Further information about the RCB and the School of Accountancy is online at http://robinson.gsu.edu/ and https://robinson.gsu.edu/academic-departments/accountancy/. Please submit all applications online at Academicjobsonline.org and include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and contact information for three references. Questions about the position should be directed to Associate Professor Peter Demerjian, Director of the School of Accountancy, at pdemerjian@gsu.edu. The position is contingent on University budget approval.

Georgia State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or protected veteran status in its programs, services, activities, employment, and/or admissions. Additionally, the University promotes equal employment opportunity for women, minorities, persons with disabilities and veterans through its affirmative action program.

 

Job Summary
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Master's Degree
Required Experience
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