Lecturer

Teaching Positions in Biology

The Department of Biology at UMass Boston is seeking full-time or part-time Lecturers or Associate Lecturers in biology starting September 1, 2026. The openings are in several courses including General Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, and Medical Microbiology. These positions offer opportunities to build a teaching career in an exciting educational and research environment.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong background in the appropriate area of Biology.
• Demonstrated potential for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
• Commitment to supporting our goal of ensuring an inclusive and supportive educational environment.
• MS or PhD degree in Biology or other field relevant to the course

Applicants are invited for any of the following courses:

• Introductory-level Biology course, covering introductory cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics. This is a large, multi-section course that can be taught by one instructor or team-taught.
• Anatomy and Physiology lecture course designed for Nursing and Exercise & Health Sciences majors. Lab instructors for this course are also sought.
• Microbiology lecture course for Biology majors.
• Medical Microbiology course for Nursing majors.

All courses meet 3 lecture hours per week for the 14-week semester. Responsibilities include presenting lectures, writing and administering exams, working with students during weekly office hours, working with course coordinators to supervise teaching assistants, and supervising grading of exams by teaching assistants. While these courses also have labs, the labs will be organized and supervised by course coordinators.

For all courses, syllabi, lab manuals, and other detailed teaching materials will be available for reference. In addition to instruction, the successful candidates will be expected to follow standard departmental policies related to instruction and course coordination in multi-section classes.

Please apply online with a CV and a cover letter addressing your interest in and fit with any of these positions, as well as your teaching experience and philosophy of teaching. Also provide the names and contact information for three professional references.

Applications will be reviewed immediately on a rolling basis until the positions are filled. For more information about the department, see https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology.  Renewals of these positions are contingent upon performance, availability of resources, and Departmental need.

UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

UMass Boston is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [email protected] or 617-287-5150.