Assistant/Associate/Full Clinical Professor, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences (Career-Track)

Assistant/Associate/Full Clinical Professor, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences (Career-Track)

Assistant/Associate/Full Clinical Professor, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences (Career-Track)

Posting Number req27086

Department Speech Language & Hearing Sci

Department Website Link

Medical Sub-Speciality

Location Tucson Campus

Address Tucson, AZ USA

Position Highlights

The University of Arizona’s Department of Speech Language, & Hearing Sciences seeks a Full-Time Speech-Language who will focus on service provision for children from Spanish-speaking or bilingual/multilingual communities. The position may include travel and service provision in a regional community clinic where the majority of families speak Spanish

The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences is renowned for its clinical training programs in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, as well as its active doctoral program. Our department includes 30 faculty members, 104 graduate students in three degree programs (MS, AuD, PhD), and 208 undergraduate students.

Faculty in the department benefit from rich collaborative environments within the university and the Southern Arizona communities.

This career-track appointment is not eligible for tenure.

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based assessment and treatment to patients with communication and feeding disorders.
• Provide clinical services at the University clinic and a regional health center where the majority of the patients/families speak Spanish
• Supervise student clinicians
• Work with teaching faculty to reinforce concepts learned in the classroom
• Assist leadership with clinical administration and program development, as assigned
• Teach in the classroom related to area/s of expertise, as assigned
• Other duties, as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s or doctoral degree Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, or equivalent
• Three years of clinical experience as a Speech-Language Pathologist working with pediatric patients
• License/license-eligibility for practice in Speech-Language Pathology in the state of Arizona
• Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Experience with the pediatric populations
• Experience providing services in Spanish
• Experience providing services to a variety of demographic populations

Preferred Qualifications

• More than five years of clinical experience
• Experience with program development
• Experience with a specialty area such as AAC, feeding, aural (re)habilitation, literacy, velopharyngeal incompetence, or motor speech disorders
• Experience with children birth to age 18
• Experience with supervision
• Advanced spoken/written Spanish language skills
• Experience leading collaborative teams

Rank To be Determined

FLSA Exempt

Full Time/Part Time Full Time

Number of Hours Worked per Week 40

Job FTE 1.0

Work Calendar Fiscal

Job Category Faculty

Benefits Eligible Yes - Full Benefits

Rate of Pay $75,000 - $120,000 (depending on rank)

Compensation Type salary at 1.0 full-time equivalency (FTE)

Type of criminal background check required Name-based criminal background check (non-security sensitive)

Number of Vacancies 1

Target Hire Date 7/1/2027

Expected End Date

Contact Information for Candidates Robin Samlan, PhD, MBA, CCC-SLP
Associate Professor, Associate Department Head & Director of Clinical Education

Open Date 9/24/2026

Open Until Filled Yes

Documents Needed to Apply Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter, and One Additional Document

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