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Posting Number req27636
Department School of Architecture
Department Website Link https://capla.arizona.edu/
Medical Sub-Speciality
Location Tucson Campus
Address Tucson, AZ USA
Position Highlights
The School of Architecture at the University of Arizona invites applicants with expertise in Integrated Design and Energy Performance for a Tenure-Eligible faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The position seeks candidates whose research, teaching, and creative practice bridge design innovation, building technology, and environmental performance. We invite candidates who view architecture as a means to advance resilient, equitable, and imaginative futures—those who thrive in collaborative settings and engage inquiry through both design and scholarship.
The University of Arizona is a Research 1 institution located in Tucson, a cultural gem in the Sonoran Desert. The school resides in the College of Architecture Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA); a multidisciplinary collaborative community. The School of Architecture’s vision is dedicated to addressing the grand challenges of our time; a catalyst in our curriculum, research and public programming. The school has an intrinsic connection to the Sonoran Desert and its exquisite and extreme conditions. It serves as a living laboratory for researching and teaching timeless and emerging environmental, social and cultural phenomena.
CAPLA is home to a 10,000 sf material fabrication lab. The school has a long tradition of empirical research and learning through hands-on material fabrication in required courses, design build projects and community engagement. The University of Arizona is the state’s flagship, land-grant institution founded in 1885. It has more than 50,000 students in 22 separate colleges and schools. The research and teaching culture of this university offers great resources and opportunities for collaboration.
Outstanding U of A benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; U of A/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to U of A recreation and cultural activities; and more!
The University of Arizona has been recognized for our innovative work-life programs.
Duties & Responsibilities
We are seeking an emerging leader in the discipline of architecture with applied and theoretical experience in integrated design and energy performance evaluation and optimization. We seek a candidate with the vision and potential to become a driving force in our school, community, university and profession. Applicants are to be collegial and collaborative by nature. They are to establish and maintain an active research agenda supported by external funding and disseminated through peer reviewed scholarship.
Research areas may include, but are not limited to:
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Integrated design of buildings for energy efficiency and systems performance including building envelope design and optimization.
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Collaborate Across Disciplines to Address Global Challenges: Join a dynamic academic community with strong connections to Sustainable Built Environments, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, as well as to university-wide initiatives in Energy, Environment, Water, Health, Data, and AI. This position offers the opportunity to cultivate partnerships that advance interdisciplinary research aligned with the University’s strategic research areas.
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Teach and Research in the Living Laboratory of the Sonoran Desert: Engage in a distinctive pedagogical and research context where the built environment is inseparable from its desert setting. Tucson’s rich ecological and cultural landscape provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore architecture’s role in adaptation, material and energy flows, and climate-responsive design.
The successful applicant will be responsible for collaborating on and contributing to the conception, development and delivery of a rigorous and dynamic accredited architectural education. They are expected to integrate design methods, simulation and computational analysis, and evidence-based evaluation of building energy performance and building enclosure design and optimization. Teaching assignments for this position may include required and elective courses in architectural technologies and design studios. This position will also support the emerging building technologies and design and energy conservation subgroups of the Master of Science in Architecture (MS.Arch) degree program with student thesis advising.
This position in integrated design and energy performance aligns with the University of Arizona’s institutional strengths in space and optics, climate and water resilience, health and medicine, data and engineering, environment and biodiversity and the human experience. The candidate will actively build collaborations with faculty in the School of Architecture and in allied disciplines including Engineering, Health Sciences, Sustainable Built Environments, Landscape Architecture and/or Urban Planning.
This position requires service contributions at the school, college and/or university levels. Service to academic, professional and community organizations is encouraged.
The normal teaching load for tenure-eligible faculty in the department under present policy is two 3-credit courses or one 3-credit course and one 6-credit studio per semester with a workload distribution:
- 40% teaching
- 40% scholarly activity/research; and
- 20% service
Minimum Qualifications
- Professional degree in architecture (Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture or international equivalent)
- Post-Graduate Degree in Architecture or related discipline (Masters or PhD). If masters is terminal degree, 5-years of relevant research or industry experience is required.
- Demonstrated experience in Integrated Design, Building Envelopes and Energy Performance in the context of architecture.
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD or doctorate in architecture or related discipline.
- Professional design and practice experience and/or licensure
- Experience teaching design studio and/or other architecture courses
- Demonstrated record or evidence of potential funding for research or creative practice.
- Experience in collaborative interdisciplinary practice or teaching and/or ability to bridge across architecture and related fields
- Recognition via scholarly publications, creative work, professional achievements or awards.
Rank Assistant Professor
Tenure Information Tenure Track (T/TE)
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 DOE
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 8/16/2027
Expected End Date
Contact Information for Candidates Alex Litchfield
alitchfield@arizona.edu
Open Date 11/12/2026
Open Until Filled Yes
Documents Needed to Apply Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter, and Five Additional Documents
Special Instructions to Applicant
- Cover letter (1-2 pages max)
- CV
- In the Additional Document slot: 5-year research/scholarship/creative practice plan including potential external funding sources and milestones (such as publications or other outputs) (2-3 pages max)
- In the Additional Document slot: Teaching philosophy statement (1 page max)
- In the Additional Document slot: a writing sample (one sample of no more than 25 pages, published or unpublished)
- In the Additional Document slot: Three references (name, contact information and relationship to the applicant)
- In the Additional Document slot: Design, research, scholarship and/or creative practice portfolio (PDF, max. dimensions 11 x 17, landscape format preferred, 10 pages and 20 MB file size max.)
Review of applications will begin on January 6, 2027. Submissions received by that date are guaranteed full review.
Notice of Availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report
In compliance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), each year the University of Arizona releases an Annual Security Report (ASR) for each of the University’s campuses. These reports disclose information including Clery crime statistics for the previous three calendar years and policies, procedures, and programs the University uses to keep students and employees safe, including how to report crimes or other emergencies and resources for crime victims. As a campus with residential housing facilities, the Main Campus ASR also includes a combined Annual Fire Safety report with information on fire statistics and fire safety systems, policies, and procedures.
Paper copies of the Reports can be obtained by contacting the University Compliance Office at cleryact@arizona.edu.
Posting Number req27636
Department School of Architecture
Department Website Link https://capla.arizona.edu/
Medical Sub-Speciality
Location Tucson Campus
Address Tucson, AZ USA
Position Highlights
The School of Architecture at the University of Arizona invites applicants with expertise in Integrated Design and Energy Performance for a Tenure-Eligible faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The position seeks candidates whose research, teaching, and creative practice bridge design innovation, building technology, and environmental performance. We invite candidates who view architecture as a means to advance resilient, equitable, and imaginative futures—those who thrive in collaborative settings and engage inquiry through both design and scholarship.
The University of Arizona is a Research 1 institution located in Tucson, a cultural gem in the Sonoran Desert. The school resides in the College of Architecture Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA); a multidisciplinary collaborative community. The School of Architecture’s vision is dedicated to addressing the grand challenges of our time; a catalyst in our curriculum, research and public programming. The school has an intrinsic connection to the Sonoran Desert and its exquisite and extreme conditions. It serves as a living laboratory for researching and teaching timeless and emerging environmental, social and cultural phenomena.
CAPLA is home to a 10,000 sf material fabrication lab. The school has a long tradition of empirical research and learning through hands-on material fabrication in required courses, design build projects and community engagement. The University of Arizona is the state’s flagship, land-grant institution founded in 1885. It has more than 50,000 students in 22 separate colleges and schools. The research and teaching culture of this university offers great resources and opportunities for collaboration.
Outstanding U of A benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; U of A/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to U of A recreation and cultural activities; and more!
The University of Arizona has been recognized for our innovative work-life programs.
Duties & Responsibilities
We are seeking an emerging leader in the discipline of architecture with applied and theoretical experience in integrated design and energy performance evaluation and optimization. We seek a candidate with the vision and potential to become a driving force in our school, community, university and profession. Applicants are to be collegial and collaborative by nature. They are to establish and maintain an active research agenda supported by external funding and disseminated through peer reviewed scholarship.
Research areas may include, but are not limited to:
-
Integrated design of buildings for energy efficiency and systems performance including building envelope design and optimization.
-
Collaborate Across Disciplines to Address Global Challenges: Join a dynamic academic community with strong connections to Sustainable Built Environments, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, as well as to university-wide initiatives in Energy, Environment, Water, Health, Data, and AI. This position offers the opportunity to cultivate partnerships that advance interdisciplinary research aligned with the University’s strategic research areas.
-
Teach and Research in the Living Laboratory of the Sonoran Desert: Engage in a distinctive pedagogical and research context where the built environment is inseparable from its desert setting. Tucson’s rich ecological and cultural landscape provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore architecture’s role in adaptation, material and energy flows, and climate-responsive design.
The successful applicant will be responsible for collaborating on and contributing to the conception, development and delivery of a rigorous and dynamic accredited architectural education. They are expected to integrate design methods, simulation and computational analysis, and evidence-based evaluation of building energy performance and building enclosure design and optimization. Teaching assignments for this position may include required and elective courses in architectural technologies and design studios. This position will also support the emerging building technologies and design and energy conservation subgroups of the Master of Science in Architecture (MS.Arch) degree program with student thesis advising.
This position in integrated design and energy performance aligns with the University of Arizona’s institutional strengths in space and optics, climate and water resilience, health and medicine, data and engineering, environment and biodiversity and the human experience. The candidate will actively build collaborations with faculty in the School of Architecture and in allied disciplines including Engineering, Health Sciences, Sustainable Built Environments, Landscape Architecture and/or Urban Planning.
This position requires service contributions at the school, college and/or university levels. Service to academic, professional and community organizations is encouraged.
The normal teaching load for tenure-eligible faculty in the department under present policy is two 3-credit courses or one 3-credit course and one 6-credit studio per semester with a workload distribution:
- 40% teaching
- 40% scholarly activity/research; and
- 20% service
Minimum Qualifications
- Professional degree in architecture (Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture or international equivalent)
- Post-Graduate Degree in Architecture or related discipline (Masters or PhD). If masters is terminal degree, 5-years of relevant research or industry experience is required.
- Demonstrated experience in Integrated Design, Building Envelopes and Energy Performance in the context of architecture.
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD or doctorate in architecture or related discipline.
- Professional design and practice experience and/or licensure
- Experience teaching design studio and/or other architecture courses
- Demonstrated record or evidence of potential funding for research or creative practice.
- Experience in collaborative interdisciplinary practice or teaching and/or ability to bridge across architecture and related fields
- Recognition via scholarly publications, creative work, professional achievements or awards.
Rank Assistant Professor
Tenure Information Tenure Track (T/TE)
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 DOE
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 8/16/2027
Expected End Date
Contact Information for Candidates Alex Litchfield
alitchfield@arizona.edu
Open Date 11/12/2026
Open Until Filled Yes
Documents Needed to Apply Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter, and Five Additional Documents
Special Instructions to Applicant
- Cover letter (1-2 pages max)
- CV
- In the Additional Document slot: 5-year research/scholarship/creative practice plan including potential external funding sources and milestones (such as publications or other outputs) (2-3 pages max)
- In the Additional Document slot: Teaching philosophy statement (1 page max)
- In the Additional Document slot: a writing sample (one sample of no more than 25 pages, published or unpublished)
- In the Additional Document slot: Three references (name, contact information and relationship to the applicant)
- In the Additional Document slot: Design, research, scholarship and/or creative practice portfolio (PDF, max. dimensions 11 x 17, landscape format preferred, 10 pages and 20 MB file size max.)
Review of applications will begin on January 6, 2027. Submissions received by that date are guaranteed full review.
Notice of Availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report
In compliance with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), each year the University of Arizona releases an Annual Security Report (ASR) for each of the University’s campuses. These reports disclose information including Clery crime statistics for the previous three calendar years and policies, procedures, and programs the University uses to keep students and employees safe, including how to report crimes or other emergencies and resources for crime victims. As a campus with residential housing facilities, the Main Campus ASR also includes a combined Annual Fire Safety report with information on fire statistics and fire safety systems, policies, and procedures.
Paper copies of the Reports can be obtained by contacting the University Compliance Office at cleryact@arizona.edu.
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Entry Level Assistant Design Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level assistant design manager job?
Entry level assistant design managers typically get hired by showing a portfolio of real project work, even from coursework, internships, or freelance jobs. Employers at this stage look for candidates who understand design workflows, can support senior managers on timelines and approvals, and communicate well with cross-functional teams. Demonstrating proficiency in design software and a willingness to learn production processes gives candidates a clear edge.
Which companies hire entry level assistant design managers?
Companies hiring entry level assistant design managers right now include Wofford College, Auburn University, and Radford University, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring tends to come from retailers, apparel brands, consumer goods companies, and creative agencies that need junior support on product design, packaging, or visual development projects.
Are there remote entry level assistant design manager jobs?
Yes, though on-site roles are more common at the entry level. About 17% of entry level assistant design manager openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, so candidates who need flexibility should filter specifically for those work settings when searching current openings on Migrate Mate.
Are these new grad assistant design manager jobs?
Yes, these listings include new grad, recent graduate, and junior assistant design manager roles. A posting is new-grad friendly when it welcomes zero to two years of experience, accepts internship or academic project work in place of full-time history, or calls out a portfolio as the primary qualifier. Searching for junior or entry level in the title is the fastest way to find roles built for candidates just starting out.
Which industries hire the most entry level assistant design managers?
Entry Level assistant design manager roles concentrate in Education and Healthcare & Medical Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive junior hiring because they run high-volume product development cycles that require hands-on support from early-career design professionals who can assist with coordination, approvals, and production details.