About the Role

The Department of Information Design, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies at Mount Royal University invites applications for a tenure track position which will commence July 1, 2023, subject to final budgetary approval, at the rank of Assistant Professor.

The primary professional responsibilities of instructional faculty members are: teaching, research, scholarship and/or creative activity, and service to the University, profession, discipline, and to the community. These responsibilities generally include: advising students, participating in campus and system-wide committees, maintaining office hours, working collaboratively and productively with colleagues, and participating in traditional academic functions.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a primary commitment to undergraduate teaching. The focus will be on teaching courses in the Information Design program and developing senior-level courses in their area of expertise. Successful candidates are expected to develop a research program that may include undergraduate students. The ability to attract external funding, or the promise of it, is desirable.

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Qualifications

Preferred candidates will hold a minimum of a Master’s degree in a design or design-related discipline, or a technical or professional communication discipline with an emphasis on visual communication, or hold a masters in HCI, usability, or data science, with an emphasis on the visual communication of analytic content. A PhD or a doctorate in information or communication design, human-computer-design or interaction, digital humanities, with a UX or HCI specialization, or a doctorate in another discipline with experience deemed to be related, or relevant would be strongly considered.

Outstanding candidates from other areas and candidates with industry experience are encouraged to apply.

Priority will be given to applicants who specialize in one or more of the following areas:

• Information Design, User-Centric Design
• Data science, with an emphasis on the effective communication or presentation of analytic content
• User experience (UX), Usability testing or research, HCI
• Content Management, Content Management Systems (CMS), Database systems
• Information Architecture
• Quantitative and Qualitative research methods, particularly as applied to Usability, User Experience
• Experience with structured and unstructured data
• Data manipulation, e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Optimal Workshop, Excel, Power Query, Orange Data Mining
• Product Development, e.g. Agile, distributed teams, Life-Cycle Product Management
• Prototyping Tools, e.g. Adobe XD, Figma