Department: School of Graduate and Professional Studies
Reports To: Dean
Status/Time Commitment: Full-time with faculty rank, tenure track, 11-month appointment
Rank:  Assistant or Associate Professor
Start Date: 07/01/2025


Reporting to the Department Chair of Business, this faculty position is responsible for leading and managing a high-quality master's-level business program that achieves approved academic, financial, and community-building outcomes and advances the values of the Fresno Pacific Idea and the Statement of Faith. This position is based at the main campus of Fresno Pacific University, and teaching responsibilities at all locations depend on semester needs.

Essential Functions

• Teaching assignments within the undergraduate and graduate business degree programs.
• Communicate regularly with program faculty and adjuncts regarding program needs and direction. 
• Oversee program development, direction, review, and coordinate syllabi contents to ensure program-learning outcomes are addressed and achieved.  
• Conduct program review and annual student learning outcomes assessment process recommendations for program modifications with program faculty. 
• Assist in recruiting candidates, answering inquiries, conducting interviews with potential students, reviewing application files, and making recommendations regarding admittance when requested. 
• Coordinate advising/mentoring of students in the major/program. 
• Respond promptly to student, faculty, and staff requests and needs, complaints and or grievances as needed in a timely manner.  
• Communicate regularly with Business staff regarding course schedules and faculty assignments. 
• Organize/supervise extra-curricular activities of the major/program. 
• Initiate relationships/partnerships with external organizations, agencies, and educational institutions. 
• Investigate and apply for grants that will expand the program reach and enhance its effectiveness.
• Demonstrate a commitment to serving and inspiring students in an academic context that integrates your Christian faith and learning. 
• Embrace the mission, vision, and values of Fresno Pacific University, affirm the FPU Faith Expectations, and support the ideals and practices articulated in "The Fresno Pacific Idea”
• Other job duties as assigned

Required:

• Earned terminal degree in the appropriate field of study.
• Demonstrated success teaching in areas such as organizational leadership, management, or business administration.
• Demonstrated success in college-level curriculum development and teaching in different instructional modalities, including blended and fully online courses with traditional nontraditional adult learners.
• Ability to work collegially with students, staff, and faculty.
• Ability to teach and work with people with diverse cultural, religious, political, and educational perspectives.
• Strong relational, oral, and written communication skills.
• Commitment to the Christian faith and the University’s mission of Christ-centered teaching, learning, and involvement in a local church.

Preferred:

• Successful leadership, management, or administration in a Christian higher education setting. 
• Evidence of successful goal setting and achievement under minimal supervision with conditions of ambiguity.
• Identifiable passion for connecting with students. 
• Proven ability and desire to pursue socially impactful applications in the field. 
• Familiarity with Fresno Pacific University and/or the regions where regional campuses are located. 

Environmental Conditions:

• Indoors in a normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, fumes, vibrations, and temperature changes at least eighty percent (80%) of the time.
• Frequent computer use at a workstation, up to eight hours per day.
• Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
• Drive personal or University vehicles to appointments.
• Public contact position requiring professional apparel, personal hygiene, and grooming. 

Physical Demands:

• This position typically functions indoors in an office environment with light to moderate noise associated with business office equipment. The position may involve travel for meetings and events.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: remain in a stationary position 80 % of the time, be able to move about inside the office to access file cabinets/office machinery etc., operate a computer and keyboard and other office productivity machinery such as calculators/copy machines/printers. The employee is occasionally required to position self to reach items on the floor and in high cabinetry. 
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Employee must be able to communicate with others to exchange information including both over the telephone and in-person communication with callers and community members and be able to read a computer screen and paper documents.
• Reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities will be provided in accordance with law.

 

University Information

Required Documents:

• Cover Letter 
• Curriculum Vitae
• Personal Statements: brief statement (1 page or less) on each of the following topics:
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Relationship & Commitment to Jesus Christ and the Church
  • Relating Christian faith to discipline and teaching
  • Diversity Rationale
• Official Transcripts (showing highest degree earned)
• 2 Letters of Recommendation 
  • To be emailed to hr@fresno.edu or mailed to Fresno Pacific University Attn: Human Resources, 1717 S. Chestnut Ave., Fresno, CA 93702
• Pastoral Letter
  • This person should have extensive knowledge of your Christian life and relationship with Jesus Christ. This knowledge should be expressed in the letter.

$68,640.00 to $99,150.00 is the annual salary for this role and reflects what Fresno Pacific University reasonably expects to pay for this position.  Actual compensation may vary based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity.  In addition to compensation, FPU offers a competitive benefits package.

Faculty Salary Scale can be viewed at Human Resources |Fresno Pacific University

UNIVERSITY DESCRIPTION
Fresno Pacific University is the only accredited Christian university founded in the Central Valley. FPU connects every student’s untapped potential with unlimited opportunity for professional, personal and ethical growth. FPU offers undergraduate, graduate and seminary programs that stress solid academic preparation and a strong ethical foundation to more than 3,500 traditional and adult students on the main campus in southeast Fresno and regional campuses in North Fresno, Visalia, Bakersfield and Merced as well as online. The university also reaches about 8,000 students through professional development studies. FPU has the highest four-year graduation rate of any Central Valley college or university, and is a Hispanic Serving Institution, with a Hispanic student population of 47 percent. FPU is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and ranked in the top tier among western universities—master’s category by U.S. News & World Report. Both U.S. News and Washington Monthly include FPU on their “Best Value” and “Best Bang for the Buck” lists, U.S. News places it at number 13 in its category for student social mobility and Money has ranked it at number 11 among 50 Best Colleges for Transfer Students. FPU is affiliated with the Mennonite Brethren Church, and all employees express a personal Christian commitment and support the Christian mission of the university. A description of the unique quality of FPU as an academic community can be found in the Fresno Pacific Idea at fresno.edu/about/fpu_idea.

Reserving its rights as a religious institution, Fresno Pacific University is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, age or disability, or other classes protected by applicable law. Committed to excellence and actively supportive of cultural diversity, FPU invites individuals who contribute to such diversity to apply. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you should contact FPU’s Human Resources Department at hr@fresno.edu. As a religious institution, the University will administer the equal opportunity employment policy consistent with the Fresno Pacific University statement of faith, the FPU Idea and the University’s governance by the Pacific District Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.

About Fresno Pacific University

Fresno Pacific University offers undergraduate and graduate programs that stress solid academic preparation and a strong ethical foundation. Some 4,000 traditional and adult students attend classes on the main campus in southeast Fresno or centers in North Fresno, Visalia, Bakersfield, and Merced as well as online. The university also reaches about 10,000 students through professional development studies. FPU has the highest four-year graduation rate of any Central Valley college or university, is a Hispanic Serving Institution, with a Hispanic student population of 48 percent, and is one of the top 10 HSIs nationally in graduating Hispanic students. The Valley’s only comprehensive Christian university granting master’s degrees, the university is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and ranked in the top tier among western universities—master’s category by U.S. News & World Report. FPU is affiliated with the Mennonite Brethren Church, and all employees express a personal Christian commitment and support the Christian mission of the university. A description of the unique quality of FPU as an academic community can be found in the Fresno Pacific University Idea at fresno.edu/about/fpu_idea.

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