Employment Opportunities at NBTS

Position Description
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Mission: To participate on the ministry of Jesus in our time and
Place by discovering and teaching old and new truths of God,
church and society that empower persons to translate their
calling and gifts into faithful Christian ministry

Title: Professor New Testament
Accountable to: Dean of Seminary
Status: Faculty/Exempt
Incumbent: Vacant
Summary Description:

The faculty has responsibility for: providing leadership and oversight of the worship and spiritual life of the Seminary; designing and overseeing all academic degree programs and any other educational activities of the Seminary, both curricular and extracurricular; determining admissions policies and admitting students; articulating and maintaining academic standards; deter-mining policies and regulations concerning academic programs and overseeing their application to individual cases; dismissal of students; valuating students of the Reformed Church in America for the Certificate of Fitness for Ministry and making similar review of non-RCA students; determining annually the list of candidates to be recommended to the Board of Trustees for the granting of degrees; determining the annual recipients of prizes at Commencement; and reviewing library policies and programs as these pertain to the academic life of the Seminary.

Accountabilities:

Each member of the regular faculty is accountable to the Dean of the Seminary. In consultation with the latter, s/he may negotiate an overall balance in order to compensate in a given academic year for workloads that are above or below expectations in the above areas.

Responsibilities:

Each faculty member is expected to contribute to the mission of the seminary in five areas:

1. Instruction and Pedagogy: A faculty member assumes responsibility, in consultation with the other members of the department (see below), for providing instruction in his/her area of specialization. Ordinarily a professor’s teaching load in a given year will be 16 credit hours of classroom work, up to 6 hours of independent studies, and the supervision of one MA thesis. On occasion, a faculty member will be assigned the supervision of a D.Min. dissertation.

2. Research and Publication: A full-time member of the regular faculty of New Brunswick Theological Seminary is expected to engage in at least one productive research project per academic year. A "productive research project" is defined as new scholarly research or a creative project that (a) finds expression in some concrete form of communication to a wider public and (b) receives some form of independent and objective evaluation from others in the wider public. Acceptable forms include, but are not limited to: an article or essay; a book chapter; a paper read at the meeting of an appropriate learned society; a lecture series or forum for a body of one’s peers; an edited volume of essays.

3. Administrative and Committee Assignments: A full-time member of the regular faculty of New Brunswick Theological Seminary is expected to accept at least three significant commitments within the faculty's administrative work. These include: service on standing committees of the faculty, service as faculty secretary, service as Director of Admissions, service as Director of the New York Campus. It is also expected that the faculty member will accept a reasonable number of commitments of lesser scope (e.g., serving on evaluation committees, search committees and standing committees of the Board of Trustees). Each faculty member will also participate in departmental work.

4. Ministry within the Seminary Community: A full-time member of the regular faculty of New Brunswick Theological Seminary shall be expected to be available in his or her office and to students and through email and telephone during each week of regular semesters for the academic year. A professor is expected to take an appropriate pastoral interest in students, including serving on a fair share of faculty student care teams. The faculty member will assume a pro rata share of the faculty's task of academic advisement. It is expected that a faculty member will make a reasonable effort to attend significant seminary-wide events. The faculty will also support the chapel program by participating in and regularly leading worship services.

5. Involvement in the Church and its Mission A full-time member of the regular faculty of New Brunswick Theological Seminary will be expected to engage in at least three significant programs of service to the church during the course an academic year. Such programs include, but are not limited to: an NBTS educational event, service on a committee or commission of a higher governing body for a denomination or ecumenical association, a multiple session adult education class (preferably for a consortium of congregations or similar program serving more than a single congregation), a lecture series.

Each member of the regular faculty is accountable to the Dean of the Seminary. In consultation with the latter, s/he may negotiate an overall balance in order to compensate in a given academic year for workloads that are above or below expectations in the above areas.

Qualification:

The position is part of the Biblical Studies Department. As stated in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary Catalogue, the purpose of this department is as follows:

The Biblical Studies Department [Old Testament and New Testament] seeks to equip the student to become a responsible and creative biblical theologian who can interpret the Scriptures in various situations of ministry. Course in the Biblical Studies Department are designed to equip students with the methods and materials for critical exegesis of the biblical text so that they can interpret scripture appropriately and responsibly in theological and ethical reflection and in the nature of the church’s life and mission in the world.

This position requires the teaching of the introductory course in New Testament (currently NT00301: Introduction to the New Testament, 4 credit hours), as well as other courses in Biblical Studies (courses with prefix BS), New Testament (courses with prefix NT), Biblical Theology (courses with prefix BT), and Biblical Hermeneutics (courses with prefix BH). Courses in integrative disciplines and cross-disciplinary team-taught courses will also be part of the load in some years.