Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Veterinary Emergency Critical Care
Washington State University
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Veterinary Emergency Critical Care
Washington State University
Land-grant university in Pullman, WA
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on:
November 30, 2026If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details.
Available Title(s):
164-NN_FACULTY - Clinical Assistant Professor - Career, 165-NN_FACULTY - Clinical Associate Professor - Career, 166-NN_FACULTY - Clinical Professor - CareerBusiness Title:
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Veterinary Emergency Critical CareEmployee Type:
FacultyPosition Term:
Position Details:
The Opportunity: The Washington State University (WSU) Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences (VCS) in the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) seeks to fill multiple full-time open rank (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor) career track faculty positions in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ECC). The successful applicants will join 4 Veterinary ECC faculty members (ACVECC Diplomates), and a dedicated team of 4 ECC residents, 8 ECC specialty interns, a technician supervisor, 13 licensed veterinary technicians and technician assistants, and 3 patient service coordinators.
The ECC services’ strategic plan includes expansion of all levels of staffing and services to facilitate operation of parallel critical care and emergency services. State-of-the-art equipment and facilities are currently available within the service and hospital and include the capability for long term mechanical ventilation, high flow oxygen therapy, point-of-care ultrasound, multi-parameter monitoring system, in-house laboratories, thromboelastography (TEG), on-site blood bank, digital radiography, 3T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, computed tomography (CT), and electrodiagnostic equipment. Endoscopy, bronchoscopy, laparoscopy, and arthroscopy are also available.
The ECC Services receive referral cases from a large geographical area including Washington, Oregon, Montana, Alaska, and Canada, and provides support to the surrounding community and nearly every small animal service within the WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) in Pullman, Washington. The VTH is a full-service referral and primary care center that aspires to be the country’s best academic veterinary hospital for patients, students, clients, colleagues, and community. The joint mission of the VTH and VCS is to improve the health and well-being of all animals through excellence in medical care, training future veterinarians, and finding innovative ways to diagnose and treat disease. Dedicated to this vision and mission are more than 60 full-time faculty members and 170 staff and house officers. The VTH is a leading referral center in the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest with over 20,000 patient visits per year as a regional tertiary care facility which provides the Clinical Pathology service with a broad-based caseload.
Additional Information:
This is a full time (100% FTE), continuous career track. This position is overtime exempt.
Annual Salary:
Assistant Professor: $155,000 - $165,000
Associate Professor: $165,000 - $185,000
Full Professor: $185,000 - $200,000
In accordance with RCW 49.58.110, the above salary reflects the full salary range for this position. Individual placement within the range is based on the candidate’s current experience, education, skills, and abilities related to the position. Successful candidates typically begin up to mid-point of the salary range.
Benefits: WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation, optional supplemental retirement accounts. For additional information, please review the detailed Summary of Benefits offered by WSU for Faculty and Total Compensation. For information or questions about Benefits, please contact HRS Benefits at 509-335-4521. The state of Washington has no state income tax which can increase take home compensation.
Considerations regarding faculty rank will be determined based on the interests and qualifications of the candidate, as will division of effort. Candidates for Associate Professor and Professor should have evidence of progressively higher levels of experience and expertise in the provision of outstanding clinical service, clinical teaching, and/or research/scholarship.
For more information, see the CVM’s promotion guidelines: (https://provost.wsu.edu/documents/2023/03/vet-med-promotion-and-tenure-guidelines.pdf).
Position Sponsorship Eligibility: Eligible for work visa sponsorship
Application Information: Applicants must upload the following required documents to their online application. Application materials should clearly communicate how the applicant meets all required qualifications and additional requirements.
1) Cover letter summarizing the candidate’s qualifications, stating the desired faculty rank
2) Summary of the candidate’s clinical, teaching, scholarly, and outreach and community engagement interests and goals
3) Curriculum vitae
About Department - Veterinary Clinical Sciences | College of Veterinary Medicine | Washington State University
Area/College: College of Veterinary Medicine
Department Name: Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Location: Pullman, WA
Application Instructions:
Applicants are required to submit an electronic application through www.hrs.wsu.edu/careers including:
1) Cover letter, summarizing the candidate’s qualifications, stating the desired faculty rank and providing a summary of the candidate’s clinical, teaching, scholarly, and outreach and community engagement interests and goals
2) Curriculum vitae
3) Contact information including email address and phone number for three (3) professional references will be requested in the application
Background Check: This position has been designated by the department to require a background check because it requires access to children or vulnerable adults as defined by RCW 74.34, engages in law enforcement, requires security clearance, interacts with WSU students in a counseling or advising capacity, has access to personal identifying and/or financial information, unsupervised access to university buildings/property, or other business-related need. A background check will not be completed until an initial determination of qualification for employment has been made.
Time Type:
Washington State University encourages all qualified candidates to apply, including members of the military and veterans, and persons with disabilities.
WSU employs only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
WSU is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact Human Resource Services: 509-335-4521 (v), Washington State TDD Relay Service: Voice Callers: 1-800-833-6384; TDD Callers: 1-800-833-6388, 509-335-1259(f), or [email protected].
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