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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s College of Arts & Sciences invites applications for the position of Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Daytona Beach Campus. This is an exceptional opportunity to guide the department at an exciting stage of growth. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build upon a strong foundation of teaching excellence, expand a growing research enterprise, and help shape the next generation of academic programs in computational mathematics and data science.
The Department Chair provides academic leadership, administrative oversight, and strategic direction for the department. Reporting to the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, the Chair ensures the quality, integrity, and relevance of departmental programs while supporting the University’s mission, academic goals, and commitment to excellence in aerospace and aviation education.
The Mathematics Department combines a culture of dedicated instruction and student mentorship with growing strengths in interdisciplinary research and curricular innovation. The teaching of the department's 33 faculty members—8 tenure-track, 11 tenured, and 14 non-tenure-track—plays a central role in supporting other programs and the university's student success goals.
The department offers bachelor's degrees in Computational Mathematics and Data Science, a master’s degree in Data Science, and minors in Applied Mathematics, Computational Mathematics, and Applications of AI. Faculty are poised to develop a doctoral program that builds on existing strengths in undergraduate and master’s level education.
Department research shows a strong growth trajectory. In recent years, research expenditures have increased to over half a million dollars per year, with support from organizations including the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Office of Naval Research, and the US Department of Transportation. Continued growth in research in both computational mathematics and data science is anticipated due to recent strategic hiring of early-career and established research faculty.
This position includes a 9-month tenured faculty appointment at the rank of Professor and a 12-month administrative extension.
Explore the Department of Mathematics:
https://erau.edu/academics/colleges/daytona-beach-college-of-arts-and-sciences/mathematics
About the College of Arts & Sciences
Embry-Riddle's College of Arts & Sciences provides the scientific, mathematical, and intellectual foundation that supports the University's distinctive focus on aviation, aerospace, and emerging technologies. Through innovative academic programs, interdisciplinary research, and experiential learning, the College prepares students to think critically, solve complex problems, and contribute meaningfully to rapidly evolving industries. The College brings together disciplines spanning mathematics, physical sciences, human factors and behavioral neurobiology, humanities and communication, and security studies and international affairs. Faculty and students collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, connecting scientific inquiry, analytical reasoning, and real-world applications.
Explore the College of Arts & Sciences:
https://erau.edu/academics/colleges/daytona-beach-college-of-arts-and-sciences
About Embry-Riddle
For over 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000 students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide locations and online programs. With more than 165,000 alumni around the world, our impact reaches every corner of the aerospace, aviation, defense and technology industries.
Today, our faculty, researchers and professional staff are advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government agencies and innovators, they are solving real-world challenges and shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.
Whether you are an educator, researcher, administrator, technologist or industry professional, your work at Embry-Riddle will contribute to something bigger than a job. Join a community driven by discovery, purpose and excellence—and help shape the future of aerospace.
Qualifications
- Earned doctorate in mathematics, statistics, data science, or related field.
- Record of successful teaching, scholarship, and service appropriate for a tenured appointment at the rank of professor.
- Record of obtaining or facilitating the growth of external research funding.
- Demonstrated academic leadership or administrative experience, preferably as a department chair, program director, associate dean, or comparable academic administrator.
- Demonstrated commitment to student success in first and second year mathematics courses within a U.S. higher education context.
- Knowledge of curriculum development, assessment, accreditation, and continuous improvement practices.
- Experience recruiting, mentoring, evaluating, and developing faculty.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with faculty, students, administrators, and external stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a department chair overseeing a diverse portfolio of research and academic programs.
- Research alignment with existing strengths and growth areas of the department.
- Experience in growing program enrollment, developing curriculum, increasing student retention, and improving graduate outcomes.
- Experience in improving student success for students in first and second year mathematics courses.
- Experience with advanced graduate program development or successful PhD student supervision.
Required Documents
Interested candidates should submit the following materials through Embry-Riddle's online application system:
- Cover letter
- CV
- Contact information for at least three professional references (references will not be contacted without prior notification of the candidate)
Current Embry-Riddle employees: Please apply directly through the ERAU Employee Hub Central application within Workday.
Embry-Riddle is committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected. We strive to ensure that all faculty, staff, and students are treated fairly and provided equal opportunities for employment, advancement, compensation, training, and other benefits of employment. Embry-Riddle makes employment decisions — including hiring, promotions, compensation, and other terms of employment — based on individual merit, qualifications, and abilities. Embry-Riddle is strongly opposed to discrimination and harassment, and such behavior is prohibited by university policy. Embry-Riddle does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, veteran status, predisposing genetic characteristics, age, religion, or pregnancy status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law, in its employment, educational programs, admissions policies, financial aid, or other school-administered programs or activities. For further information, please visit our website.
Embry-Riddle does not accept unsolicited assistance from staffing or recruitment agencies. Agencies interested in partnering with the University should contact eraujobs@erau.edu and should not contact hiring managers or other University employees directly.
To preserve the integrity and authenticity of our hiring process, candidates are expected to participate without AI-assisted coaching, real-time response generation, or recording during interviews or assessments. Embry-Riddle does not use AI to automatically screen, rank, or select candidates.
Job Description
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s College of Arts & Sciences invites applications for the position of Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Daytona Beach Campus. This is an exceptional opportunity to guide the department at an exciting stage of growth. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build upon a strong foundation of teaching excellence, expand a growing research enterprise, and help shape the next generation of academic programs in computational mathematics and data science.
The Department Chair provides academic leadership, administrative oversight, and strategic direction for the department. Reporting to the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, the Chair ensures the quality, integrity, and relevance of departmental programs while supporting the University’s mission, academic goals, and commitment to excellence in aerospace and aviation education.
The Mathematics Department combines a culture of dedicated instruction and student mentorship with growing strengths in interdisciplinary research and curricular innovation. The teaching of the department's 33 faculty members—8 tenure-track, 11 tenured, and 14 non-tenure-track—plays a central role in supporting other programs and the university's student success goals.
The department offers bachelor's degrees in Computational Mathematics and Data Science, a master’s degree in Data Science, and minors in Applied Mathematics, Computational Mathematics, and Applications of AI. Faculty are poised to develop a doctoral program that builds on existing strengths in undergraduate and master’s level education.
Department research shows a strong growth trajectory. In recent years, research expenditures have increased to over half a million dollars per year, with support from organizations including the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Office of Naval Research, and the US Department of Transportation. Continued growth in research in both computational mathematics and data science is anticipated due to recent strategic hiring of early-career and established research faculty.
This position includes a 9-month tenured faculty appointment at the rank of Professor and a 12-month administrative extension.
Explore the Department of Mathematics:
https://erau.edu/academics/colleges/daytona-beach-college-of-arts-and-sciences/mathematics
About the College of Arts & Sciences
Embry-Riddle's College of Arts & Sciences provides the scientific, mathematical, and intellectual foundation that supports the University's distinctive focus on aviation, aerospace, and emerging technologies. Through innovative academic programs, interdisciplinary research, and experiential learning, the College prepares students to think critically, solve complex problems, and contribute meaningfully to rapidly evolving industries. The College brings together disciplines spanning mathematics, physical sciences, human factors and behavioral neurobiology, humanities and communication, and security studies and international affairs. Faculty and students collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, connecting scientific inquiry, analytical reasoning, and real-world applications.
Explore the College of Arts & Sciences:
https://erau.edu/academics/colleges/daytona-beach-college-of-arts-and-sciences
About Embry-Riddle
For over 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000 students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide locations and online programs. With more than 165,000 alumni around the world, our impact reaches every corner of the aerospace, aviation, defense and technology industries.
Today, our faculty, researchers and professional staff are advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government agencies and innovators, they are solving real-world challenges and shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.
Whether you are an educator, researcher, administrator, technologist or industry professional, your work at Embry-Riddle will contribute to something bigger than a job. Join a community driven by discovery, purpose and excellence—and help shape the future of aerospace.
Qualifications
- Earned doctorate in mathematics, statistics, data science, or related field.
- Record of successful teaching, scholarship, and service appropriate for a tenured appointment at the rank of professor.
- Record of obtaining or facilitating the growth of external research funding.
- Demonstrated academic leadership or administrative experience, preferably as a department chair, program director, associate dean, or comparable academic administrator.
- Demonstrated commitment to student success in first and second year mathematics courses within a U.S. higher education context.
- Knowledge of curriculum development, assessment, accreditation, and continuous improvement practices.
- Experience recruiting, mentoring, evaluating, and developing faculty.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with faculty, students, administrators, and external stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a department chair overseeing a diverse portfolio of research and academic programs.
- Research alignment with existing strengths and growth areas of the department.
- Experience in growing program enrollment, developing curriculum, increasing student retention, and improving graduate outcomes.
- Experience in improving student success for students in first and second year mathematics courses.
- Experience with advanced graduate program development or successful PhD student supervision.
Required Documents
Interested candidates should submit the following materials through Embry-Riddle's online application system:
- Cover letter
- CV
- Contact information for at least three professional references (references will not be contacted without prior notification of the candidate)
Current Embry-Riddle employees: Please apply directly through the ERAU Employee Hub Central application within Workday.
Embry-Riddle is committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected. We strive to ensure that all faculty, staff, and students are treated fairly and provided equal opportunities for employment, advancement, compensation, training, and other benefits of employment. Embry-Riddle makes employment decisions — including hiring, promotions, compensation, and other terms of employment — based on individual merit, qualifications, and abilities. Embry-Riddle is strongly opposed to discrimination and harassment, and such behavior is prohibited by university policy. Embry-Riddle does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, veteran status, predisposing genetic characteristics, age, religion, or pregnancy status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law, in its employment, educational programs, admissions policies, financial aid, or other school-administered programs or activities. For further information, please visit our website.
Embry-Riddle does not accept unsolicited assistance from staffing or recruitment agencies. Agencies interested in partnering with the University should contact eraujobs@erau.edu and should not contact hiring managers or other University employees directly.
To preserve the integrity and authenticity of our hiring process, candidates are expected to participate without AI-assisted coaching, real-time response generation, or recording during interviews or assessments. Embry-Riddle does not use AI to automatically screen, rank, or select candidates.
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Document your academic credentials thoroughly
Gather official transcripts, degree equivalency evaluations, and published research before applying. PERM requires the employer to verify that your credentials meet the minimum requirements posted in recruitment ads, so gaps in documentation can delay labor certification.
Target institutions with active PERM filing histories
Use Migrate Mate to find universities and colleges with verified green card sponsorship activity for academic leadership roles. Institutions that have sponsored Department Chairs before understand the PERM recruitment obligations and are less likely to withdraw mid-process.
Verify your role's prevailing wage category early
Run your position through the OFLC Wage Search using the correct SOC code for postsecondary education administrators or your discipline's faculty code. A Level III or IV wage determination for a Department Chair can affect budget approval and sponsorship timelines at smaller institutions.
Understand how EB-2 and EB-3 affect your timeline
Department Chair roles typically qualify under EB-2 if you hold an advanced degree, or EB-3 as a professional with a bachelor's degree. If you were born in a high-demand country like India or China, check the monthly Visa Bulletin for your priority date before accepting an offer contingent on sponsorship.
Negotiate sponsorship terms before signing an offer
Confirm in writing that the institution will file PERM, I-140, and cover associated legal fees. Academic employers vary widely on who bears attorney costs, and PERM regulations prohibit passing the labor certification fee to you as the sponsored employee.
Preserve your priority date if you change institutions
Once your I-140 is approved, your priority date belongs to that petition. If you move to a new institution after your I-485 has been pending 180 days, AC21 portability lets you transfer to a same or similar occupation without losing your place in line, as long as USCIS confirms the occupational match.
Green Card Department Chair: Frequently Asked Questions
Which green card category applies to Department Chair positions?
Most Department Chair roles qualify under EB-2 because the position typically requires a doctoral or advanced degree in a relevant academic discipline. If the role requires only a bachelor's degree plus experience, EB-3 professional classification applies. Your employer's immigration attorney will determine the category based on the job requirements stated in the PERM application, not your personal credentials alone.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa sponsorship is temporary and must be renewed, while green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 leads to permanent residency. The process is longer: your employer files a prevailing wage request, runs a mandatory DOL recruitment test, then submits the PERM application before USCIS adjudicates the I-140 petition. Priority date backlogs mean nationals from certain countries may wait years before filing I-485, even after PERM is certified.
What does the PERM recruitment test require from a university employer?
The employer must conduct a good-faith recruitment effort to test the U.S. labor market before DOL will certify a PERM application. For professional positions like Department Chair, this includes at least three additional recruitment steps beyond a mandatory Sunday newspaper ad, such as job fairs, campus postings, or listings in academic journals. The employer must document that no minimally qualified U.S. workers applied and were rejected.
How do I find universities actively sponsoring Department Chairs for a green card?
Search Migrate Mate to identify institutions with verified green card sponsorship activity for academic leadership and postsecondary administration roles. Many universities sponsor green cards regularly but don't advertise it prominently in job postings. Targeting employers with an established PERM filing track record reduces the risk of an institution declining to sponsor after you've accepted an offer.
Can I change institutions after my I-140 is approved without losing my priority date?
Your priority date carries over if your original I-140 was approved, even if you move to a new employer who files a fresh I-140 on your behalf. Separately, if your I-485 adjustment application has been pending for 180 days or more, AC21 portability lets you change employers without abandoning the pending adjustment, provided the new role is in the same or a similar occupation as classified by USCIS.