Job description
Tenure Track Faculty Position in Chemistry
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
To enrich education through diversity, The College of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The College has a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff, and strongly encourages women and members of underrepresented groups to apply.
The Department of Chemistry at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) invites outstanding applicants for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank starting in August 2026. We welcome candidates specializing in organic chemistry who have the potential to establish a highly visible undergraduate research program that enhances the department’s existing strengths while expanding our expertise in organic synthesis. Please visit the Department’s website for information on our faculty members and their research interests: https://chemistry.tcnj.edu. We invite applicants who are committed to high-quality teaching and deep student engagement at all levels of the curriculum at a public, primarily undergraduate, residential institution. The primary teaching responsibility will be courses in the organic chemistry curriculum, in addition to developing innovative upper-level courses that diversify and enrich the department’s offerings. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research and teaching can collaboratively contribute to interdisciplinary curricular and scholarly efforts within the School of Science and at TCNJ. The successful candidates will also demonstrate a commitment to inclusive excellence in STEM and higher education. A doctoral degree in organic chemistry or a closely related discipline is required for this position. While postdoctoral experience is preferred, candidates from diverse professional backgrounds will also be considered. Candidates who are ABD (all but dissertation) will be eligible only if they complete their degree before the start date. We encourage applicants from various professional backgrounds and personal journeys to apply. A dedicated research laboratory space and competitive start-up funds will be provided.
Teaching and research are mutually valued at TCNJ. Candidates should be strongly committed to the teacher-scholar model by maintaining high-quality teaching and an active and productive research program that involves highly motivated undergraduates. Our tenure-track faculty are supported in seeking, writing and successfully obtaining nationally competitive grants that facilitate research activities, equipment acquisition, and pedagogical innovation. TCNJ is proud to have received multiple competitive grants from NSF, NIH, and other programs to broaden participation in research and develop innovative curricula. Faculty members also act as mentors and academic advisors while engaging in Department, School, and College service roles.
To enrich education through diversity, TCNJ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. TCNJ is committed to inclusive excellence and achieving diversity among faculty and staff. We encourage applications from individuals of diverse and intersectional backgrounds and cultures, including, but not limited to, identities based on race, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, age, and veteran status. TCNJ’s Division of Inclusive Excellence, diversity.tcnj.edu, houses several faculty and staff affinity groups. TCNJ supports a healthy work-life balance for our faculty and has been recognized by The Chronicle of Higher Education on its honor roll of “Great Colleges to Work For.”
About the Chemistry Department
The Chemistry Department has 11 full-time faculty members, three full-time staff, and approximately 120 majors. We teach a 3/3 course load with in-load credit for mentoring students in research. Pre-tenure faculty receive an additional reduction in teaching load for establishing their research program. We occupy a recently expanded and renovated Chemistry Building, which is part of TCNJ’s six-building STEM Complex, providing tremendous opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. The Chemistry Department offers access to state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities and instrumentation, including NMR (two 400 MHz) and EPR (X-band) spectrometers, MALDI-TOF MS, LC-MS, XRD (single-crystal and powder), amongst a range of additional instruments. Additionally, the School of Science provides access to a high-performance computing cluster. For a complete list of instrumentation available in the Chemistry Department, see: https://chemistry.tcnj.edu/resources/instrumentation/, and the School of Science, see: https://science.tcnj.edu/about/facilities-labs/
TCNJ’s Department of Chemistry offers a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree with specializations in Biochemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Secondary Education. The Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree can be certified by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Over 80% of our majors participate in one or more semesters of research with a Chemistry faculty member. A large percentage of our undergraduates go on to earn Ph.D.s and careers in Chemistry. In the past five years, the department has been awarded over $2 million in external grants and has produced more than 40 peer-reviewed papers or book chapters. TCNJ faculty and students are very active with the American Chemical Society and hosted the Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) in 2022 with the Trenton Local Section. For more information about the department, visit chemistry.tcnj.edu.
About TCNJ
Founded in 1855, TCNJ is a selective public primarily undergraduate institution that has earned national recognition for its commitment to excellence. TCNJ emphasizes the residential experience for nearly 7,400 full-time students, with 30% identifying as members of groups traditionally underrepresented in academe and STEM fields. Students benefit from a 13-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio and an average class size of 21, contributing to TCNJ’s impressive first-year to sophomore retention rate of 94%, a four-year graduation rate of 76% (the fourth highest among public institutions in the U.S.), and a six-year graduation rate of 86% (among the highest in the country). TCNJ has also received national recognition for promoting the teacher-scholar model among faculty and for deeply engaging undergraduates in research, scholarship, and creative activities. In 2015, TCNJ was awarded the inaugural “Campus-wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishment” by the Council on Undergraduate Research. Due in part to TCNJ’s intentional and comprehensive integration of research into undergraduate curricula and institutional culture, an increasing number of graduates have pursued and completed doctoral degrees over the past ten years. TCNJ also has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter-an honor shared by less than 10 percent of colleges and universities nationwide. A strong liberal arts core forms the foundation for programs offered through TCNJ’s seven schools: Arts and Communication, Business, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Nursing and Health Sciences, and Science. TCNJ is located within an hour of New York City and Philadelphia. The College’s campus spans 289 tree-lined acres in suburban Ewing Township and is renowned for its natural beauty. For more information, visit www.tcnj.edu.
Primary Location: Chemistry Building – Chemistry
Work Locations:
Chemistry Building – Chemistry
2000 Pennington Rd
Ewing Township 08628
Job: Faculty
Organization: The College of New Jersey
