Assistant Professor

Academic
Job Category
Faculty Bargaining
Job Title
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) or Associate Professor (Tenure)
Department
Department of Psychiatry | Faculty of Medicine | Provost and VP Academic (Lakshmi Yatham)
Posting End Date
May 13, 2025
**Note**: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
Job End Date
The expected pay range for this position is $160,000 to $165,000 per annum at the Assistant Professor rank and $185,000 to $190,000 per annum at the Associate Professor rank.
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
This position will primarily be based at the distributed Island Medical Program (IMP) site in Victoria, BC, at Royal Jubilee Hospital, serving Island Health.
As part of one of the world's leading universities, the UBC Department of Psychiatry supports outstanding research and engages local, national and global communities. We create an exceptional learning environment, advance mental health research and promote sustainable care for mental illness and addictions. The UBC Department of Psychiatry consists of more than 950 Department members, including academic and clinical faculty, trainees, students and staff with broad expertise in basic neuroscience to translational and clinical research. The Department's medical education programs are some of the most widely distributed within the Faculty of Medicine consisting of faculty appointees and trainees located within each of British Columbia's Health Authorities.
The IMP is one of five distributed sites in the Faculty of Medicine's MD Undergraduate Program. The IMP provides innovative community-based training for physicians at hospitals and clinical sites in Victoria and across Vancouver Island, in alignment with the social accountability principle of the UBC Faculty of Medicine strategic plan. Along with the Vancouver Fraser Medical Program, the Southern Medical Program, and the Northern Medical Program, this distributed medical program was the first of its kind in North America and has proven to be a highly successful model of distributed education.
publications record;
and at the rank of Assistant Professor, the names of three references or at the rank of Associate Professor, the names of four arm's length references
Dr. Lakshmi Yatham, Professor and Head
Department of Psychiatry
The University of British Columbia
c/o Margaret Koshi, Director of Administration
**Subject Line**: Academic Faculty Position - VIHA
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**Our Vision**: To Transform Health for Everyone.
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The Faculty - comprised of approximately 2,200 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well approximately 650 full-time academic and over 10,000 clinical faculty members - is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, three schools, and 24 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty delivers innovative programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province.
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