Assistant Research Professor

Texas State University; Texas; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas State University’s ALERRT Center invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, non-tenure-line Research Assistant Professor to lead ALERRT's first responder health and wellness research program in San Marcos, Texas.

The successful candidate will build a nationally visible research agenda focusing on health, wellness, and mortality of law enforcement and other first responders, integrating population surveillance with biological and biosocial measures.

Job description

The Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, non-tenure-line Research Assistant Professor to lead ALERRT's first responder health and wellness research program. ALERRT is the national standard in active shooter response training and is home to a federally supported research program on active attacks, law enforcement training, and officer performance.

The successful candidate will build and lead a nationally visible research agenda on the health, wellness, and mortality of law enforcement officers, correctional officers, firefighters, and other first responders. The position combines population-level occupational mortality surveillance with biological and biosocial measures of health, including epigenetic measures of biological aging, genomic data, and physiological stress and cardiometabolic biomarkers.

The position reports to the ALERRT Director of Research and is based in San Marcos, Texas. ALERRT offers a collaborative, productive research team, direct access to a national network of law enforcement and first responder agencies, and research infrastructure that includes public-facing data platforms on active attack events.

Research Faculty conduct and advance scholarly research, develop and sustain externally sponsored research agendas, secure and manage extramural funding, disseminate research findings through peer-reviewed publications and other scholarly products, contribute to grant development and research initiatives, collaborate with faculty, students, and external partners, and provide service to the center/department/school, college/division, university, profession, and broader research community. Research faculty are individuals whose primary responsibilities center on the creation, application, and dissemination of knowledge through research, scholarship, and creative activity. They may lead, support, and manage sponsored projects; serve as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) on externally funded grants and contracts; mentor students and research personnel; translate research findings for academic, practitioner, and policy audiences; and contribute specialized expertise that advances the university's research mission. The primary emphasis of research faculty appointments is research productivity, scholarly impact, and the development and execution of externally sponsored research programs. For more information, please visit AA/PPS 04.01.21 - Research Faculty Appointments.