Job Description for the Lecturer in Accounting (tax specialization) position. Review job description, requirements, and qualifications. Apply or register interest for the position.

The Department of Accounting in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business invites applications for a lecturer-track faculty position in accounting to begin in August 2025.  The specialization of immediate need is in taxation. However, teaching may also include courses in accounting principles and Elon’s Core Curriculum.

Required Qualifications:

• An earned master's degree in accounting from an AACSB-accredited university.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license or Certified Management Accountant (CMA designation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• One year of professional accounting experience in tax preparation, OR 3-year teaching accounting courses at an AACSB-accredited institution;
• Proficiency using tax preparation software

In addition to teaching, candidates must be willing to provide service to the department, business school, university, and accounting profession.

Anticipated Start Date: August 2025. Final candidates will be invited to campus to demonstrate effective teaching.

About the University: Elon has built a national reputation as the premier student-centered environment for experiential learning, emphasizing strong personal relationships between students and their faculty and staff mentors. Elon’s rigorous curriculum is grounded in the arts and sciences and complemented by nationally accredited professional programs. The 446 full-time faculty members teach in more than 60 undergraduate majors and nine graduate programs. Elon’s four-year graduation rate of 80 percent ranks in the top six percent in the nation. Elon’s 6,337 undergraduate and 786 graduate students come from 49 states and 51 other countries. About 24 percent are from North Carolina, with strong enrollment numbers from the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and across the country.  Elon is ranked among the top-100 National Universities by U.S. News & World Report, with a #1 ranking for excellence in undergraduate teaching for both 2023 and 2024, and #13 for innovation in 2024. Elon is the only university in the nation recognized by U.S. News for excellence in all eight academic programs “Focused on Student Success.” Included are #1 rankings for learning communities and first-year experiences, #3 for service learning, and #4 for study abroad.

About the School: The AACSB-accredited Martha and Spencer Love School of Business has emerged from a time of dramatic growth to become a leader in business education. Our faculty are both dynamic teachers who promote engaged learning and leading scholars who publish their work in top journals. To support our teacher/scholar mission, we provide extensive teaching and research development programs, including pre-tenure sabbatical, summer and academic year research grants, course releases, and teaching workshops. The LSB is housed in the Koury Business Center and Sankey Hall, which feature state-of-the-art classrooms, multiple student engagement areas, the LaRose Digital Theatre, the Chandler Family Professional Sales Center, the Reed Finance Center, the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Organizational Analytics, the Center for Financial Literacy, and the Porter Family Professional Development Center.  We offer graduate classes on the Elon campus and in the fast-growing Research Triangle Park (RTP) area.  In 2023, Poets and Quants ranked the school’s undergraduate program #39 in the nation, and, in 2016, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the part-time MBA program #1 in the state and #17 in the nation.

Candidates who have experience working with a diverse range of people are encouraged to identify their experiences in contributing to a climate of inclusivity in their cover letters. Elon is a dynamic private, co-educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning in a liberal arts based residential campus. To learn more about Elon, please visit the University website at www.elon.edu

Elon values and celebrates the diverse backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and perspectives of our community members. As an equal opportunity employer, decisions related to hiring, compensating, training, evaluating performance, are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees. We examine our unconscious biases and take responsibility for always striving to create an inclusive environment that makes every candidate feel welcome. At Elon we strive to follow our mission, where our employees are empowered to respect human differences, have a passion for lifelong learning, an emphasis on personal integrity and an ethic of service.

To Apply: Please go on Elon’s HR webpage https://jobs.elon.edu/jobs/search, find the position, and click on “Apply Now!”

You will need to submit the letter of interest, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, information on teaching evaluations, and a list of three references. Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled. Complete applications received by November 15th will receive full consideration. If you have questions, please contact Chair of the Search Committee, Beth McCain, bmccain@elon.edu