Chs - Physiotherapy - Faculty

The American University in the Emirates invites Ph.D. holder applicants for a faculty position.

**Academic year: 2025-2026 (August 2025)**

The faculty required will be teaching in one or more of the below Specializations:

- **Physiotherapy**

**Instruction Language**: English & Arabic

**Teaching Load**:12 credit hours per academic semester**

**Job purpose**

Responsible for providing students with professional expertise in teaching, assessing student work, academic advising, participating in administrative and committee activities, professional service, and community service.

**Qualifications & Education**
- Ph.D. in the related field of Physiotherapy from an accredited university or a recognized University accredited by an Accreditation body
- Applicant must have completed a Philosophy Doctorate (Ph.D.) by the time of recruitment from an internationally accredited university
- 18 credit hours of graduate studies in the required field
- Minimum two research publications in Scopus journals

**Experience**
- Applicants must have a minimum of 2 years of teaching experience in an internationally accredited university.
- Applicants must have a minimum of 3 publications in the last 5 years.
- Proven record of excellence at baccalaureate and graduate program level teaching

**Job purpose**

Responsible for providing students with professional expertise in teaching, assessing student work, academic advising, participating in administrative and committee activities, professional service, and community service.

**Skills / Training / Knowledge**
- Curricular development and review.
- Record of professional accomplishment including peer-reviewed publications
- Continued research program and interest in collaboration with another faculty.
- Ability to integrate web-based and digital technology in the classroom.
- Willingness to provide service to the University and the College.
- Excellent English Proficiency and Communication skills for Faculty teaching in English
- Excellent Arabic Proficiency and Communication skills for faculty teaching in Arabic

**1. Instructional Delivery (Teaching Performance)**
- Present research and practice driven teaching and
- adapt to latest pedagogical techniques that stimulate students to inquiry and to encompass a broad and coherent body of knowledge, attaining the skills and competencies through engaging delivery techniques and development of appropriate assessments

**2. Instructional Management**

Effectively manage the instructional processes

**3. Assessment and Evaluation**
- Evaluating students’ performance and grading
- Provide clear assessment criteria that reflect course content and its learning outcomes
- Set expectations to students and avoid cognitive biasness

**4. Curriculum Development and Review**

Contributes to regular curriculum reviewing and improving the existing curriculum for quality and effectiveness
- For quality:
- Currency and relevancy of the theories and practice in the field
- Intellectual rigor appropriate to the level of the degree program
- For Effectiveness- Increasingly complex presentation of theories, principles, and practice
- Increasingly complex levels of analysis and development of competencies
- Application of theories and principles.

**5. Research, and/or Scholarship**

Actively engage in scholarly activities and publish peer-reviewed articles in area of specialization thus contributing to the Mission of the University

**6. Professional Development**

Acquire latest academic techniques, discipline and professional certification, technology related development, and leadership development through attending in-campus and out-campus workshops, seminars and training

**7. Academic Advising and Academic Success**

Provide academic advising and guidance the students in the program learning outcomes, curriculum planning and career planning

**8. Service**

Participate by working in a task force or workgroup to accomplish assignment or project such as accreditation, recruitment, research administration, consultation, and service to university, discipline and to community

**About American University in the Emirates (AUE)**:
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