**Description** Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to support research in academic and disciplinary writing. **Responsibilities:** + Manage the day-to-day tasks of a multidisciplinary research team that researches academic and disciplinary writing + Collect and manage data including student writing, interviews, surveys, focus groups, and think-aloud protocols + Design teaching materials to scaffold academic and disciplinary writing + Conduct writing workshops with faculty and students + Provide writing support for students + Develop online modules to scaffold academic writing + Analyze data including student writing + Assist with preparing presentations for conferences + Assist with preparing manuscripts for publication **Timeframe:** 12-month contract beginning in **January 2025** with possibility of renewal. Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar offers a competitive salary, travel, housing, and schooling allowances, as well as other benefits, including professional development opportunities. Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is a branch campus that operates along with several other American and European branch campuses under the umbrella of the Qatar Foundation’s Education City. CMU-Q’s student body comes from all over the world; in particular, many come from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central and South Asia. CMU-Q’s focus is undergraduate education in Computer Science, Business Administration, Biological Sciences, and Information Systems. **Qualifications** + PhD required in English, rhetoric, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, or related field + Demonstrated excellence in teaching or course support. + Previous experience teaching academic writing and developing materials to teach writing + Previous experience conducting research in academic writing, disciplinary writing, discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, or corpus linguistics + Computer skills to be able to develop online teaching modules (preferred but not required) **Application Instructions** Interested candidates should submit the following documents to be considered for the position: + A cover letter specifying how your qualifications match the job description + A CV, including the contact information of two references + A diversity & inclusion statement (one page or less) + Sample teaching materials and/or publications (this may include course syllabus, teaching materials, published or in-preparation manuscript) Applicants will be accepted online through Interfolio. Follow this link to electronically submit: http://apply.interfolio.com/158965 Review of applications will begin immediately and priority will be given to applications received before **January 1, 2025** . Interviews will be conducted online and only shortlisted applicants will be notified. The position will remain open until filled. **Equal Employment Opportunity Statement** **Carnegie Mellon University** is an equal opportunity employer. It does not discriminate in admission, employment, or administration of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition, family status, marital status, parental status, religion, ancestry, veteran status, or genetic information. Furthermore, Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate and is required not to discriminate in violation of federal, state, or local laws or executive orders. Consistent with this commitment, Carnegie Mellon will no longer be requiring or considering applicant diversity statements. If you are interested in this position and have not yet submitted a diversity statement, please do not do so. If you have already submitted a diversity statement, please know that any diversity statements submitted by applicants for this opportunity will not be considered in the hiring decision.