Adjunct Professor (Open Rank)

Overview:

The UCLA Department of Economics invites highly qualified applicants for an Adjunct faculty position to begin July 1, 2026. This is a temporary, non-tenure teaching track appointment.

Responsibilities:

Research, teaching, and service. The ideal candidate must have strong teaching skills as evidenced by significant prior classroom experience and teaching evaluations. Prior experience in large class settings is valued. Adjunct re/appointments are dictated by availability of departmental funds. The appointment can be on a short-term or a long-term basis (two years maximum allowable but with renewal for another two-year period).

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must have a Ph.D. in economics or in fields of comparable sophistication and should have the Ph.D. in hand by date of hire. Ability to teach undergraduate courses in Statistics and Econometrics as well as Principles of Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics is preferred.

Benefits:

Salary is commensurate with education and experience. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See Table 3. The salary range for this position is $107,100 -$133,800 for Assistant Adjunct Professor rank, $128,800-$150,700 for the Associate Adjunct Professor rank and $144,300-$232,100 for the Adjunct Professor rank. "Off-scale salaries" and other components of pay, i.e. a salary that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions