Assistant Professor or Associate Professor

Academic

Job Category

Faculty Bargaining

Job Title

Assistant Professor or Associate Professor

Department

Faculty School of Nursing Faculty of Applied Sciences (Elizabeth Saewyc)

Posting End Date

September 10 2026

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

June 30 2031

Salary will be commensurate with level of educational preparation and experience. The expected salary range for the Assistant Professor position is $135000/year to $160000/year and the expected salary range for the Associate Professor position is $150000/year to $170000/year.

The School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia - Vancouver campus invites applications from Nurse Practitioners for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor position. We are particularly interested in applicants with a program of research in primary health care and/or models of NP practice but welcome applicants with relevant scholarship in all areas of advanced nursing practice. The anticipated start date is July 1 2027 or potentially earlier if feasible.

The School of Nursing at UBC is the oldest university-based nursing program in Canada with a global reputation for excellence in research innovative teaching and values rooted in health equity social justice and community engagement. Our Masters of Nursing-Nurse Practitioner program which offers a generalist nurse practitioner focus with an emphasis on primary care has expanded to help meet the needs of BCs primary health care system. UBCs Vancouver campus is situated at the tip of Point Grey on the unceded lands of the Musqueam people surrounded by forest ocean and mountains The School also has a location in Surrey across from the Surrey Memorial Hospital for a cohort of the NP program. Thesuccessful candidate will primarily teach at the Surrey campus and may teach at the Point Grey campus based on the needs of the School UBC seeks to recruit and retain a workforce that is representative of Vancouvers diversity to maintain the excellence of the University and to offer students richly varied disciplines perspectives and ways of knowing and learning.

The successful candidate will be expected to develop an independent research program relevant to advanced practice nursing promoting peoples health and informing the future of health care in Canada and beyond. They will primarily teach core and/or elective courses in the NP program or other graduate programs supervise graduate students (both Masters and PhD) and provide service to the University the School and to the profession. Part of the role will include sufficient practice hours to maintain NP licensure in BC. Applicants must have earned a PhD in nursing or a related discipline and be registered or eligible to be registered as a Nurse Practitioner with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives. The successful candidate will demonstrate or showpotential for excellence in research and teaching and must have recent or current clinical practice experience as a Nurse Practitioner.

Qualified applicants should submit a complete application package that includes:

• Curriculum vitae (CV);
• A cover letter outlining their career objectives and suitability for the position including an overview of relevant experience and achievements research goals and approaches to teaching;
• A statement on how their experiences and/or knowledge will support the School of Nursings commitments to anti-racism Indigenous cultural safety equity and inclusion. For information on the Universitys and Schools commitments to reducing systemic racism and promoting cultural safety in education and health care please see and For information on the Universitys inclusion action plan see and contact information for four references

Applications must be submitted online at Review of applications will begin September 11 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. All applications received by September 10 2026 will receive full consideration.

Salary will be commensurate with level of educational preparation and experience. The expected salary range for the Assistant Professor position is $135000/year to $160000/year and the expected salary range for the Associate Professor position is $150000/year to $170000/year.

This advertisement as well as further information about the School is available on the School of Nursing website at and information on the employment environment in the Faculty of Applied Science is available at All positions are subject to final budgetary approval.

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and equitable work environment for all members of its workforce. An inclusive work environment presumes an environment where differences are accepted recognized and integrated into current structures planning and decision-making modes. Within this hiring process we will make efforts to create an inclusive and equitable process for all candidates (including but not limited to people with disabilities). Accommodations are available on request for all candidates taking part in the selection process. To confidentially request accommodations please contact Christine McKay Assistant to the Director at

To learn more about UBCs Centre for Workplace Accessibility please visit their website To learn more about how the University is working to create a more inclusive working and learning environment please see the UBC Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism Framework and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code including sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression racialization disability political belief religion marital or family status age and/or status as a First Nation Metis Inuit or Indigenous person.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.

Land Acknowledgement:

The School of Nursing at UBC gratefully acknowledge that our students faculty and staff gather on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people particularly the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam) First Nation as well as the qicəy (Katzie) qʷɑ:nƛən (Kwantlen) kʷikʷəƛəm (Kwikwetlem) Semiahmoo and scəwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) First all our work we are committed to enacting the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to upholding the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and to fostering Indigenous health and cultural safety.

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1