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POSITION SUMMARY The Director of Contextual Education will further CDSP’s commitment to forming leaders for mission and ministry in culturally diverse contexts and in a changing church and world. We seek an engaging, dynamic teacher who bridges the academy, the church, and the world, and who can enable students to articulate and embody a public theology that relates to Christian life and ministry today and in the future. This teacher will help prepare students for lay and ordained leadership in a variety of ministry settings in different cultural contexts. The Director of Contextual Education oversees field placements for students in both residential and low-residence programs, including training for field-placement supervisors and overseeing the work of the Field Placement Program Administrator. The Director of Contextual Education will teach required seminars concurrent with the first year of field placement. Candidates should be prepared to teach at the master’s level at an Episcopal seminary within the ecumenical and interfaith setting of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), in Berkeley, California. CDSP’s new partnership with Trinity Church Wall Street (TCWS) means that the years ahead will bring opportunities for growth and expansion. The Director of Contextual Education will be an integral part of the faculty that will guide the development of new curricula, programs, and approaches to leadership education. This is a ranked position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level for an initial appointment of five years, beginning August 1, 2020. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Field Placement Program Coordinate field placements for students in both years of the field placement program, which comprises two required two-semester sequences – Theological Field Education I and II and Leadership for Ministry I and II. Oversee development of learning contracts for students in field placements. Oversee processes of student and supervisor evaluation of placements. Orient and supervise field-placement supervisors, including regular required training for all supervisors. Assess quality of sites and supervisors. Maintain and periodically update resources and forms for students, supervisors, and lay committees. Oversee the work of the Field Placement Program Administrator. Teaching and Research Teach the required two-semester sequence of courses in the first year of the field placement program, which is an integral part of the MDiv curriculum. The sequence is offered in both residential classroom and on-line formats, with short-term intensive residential course-work for online students. Coordinate course design with other faculty members in the practical theology area, particularly those teaching ministerial leadership, pastoral theology, and practical theology. Coordinate course design and content with other faculty to develop and refine how students engage with theological disciplines across the curriculum. Teach with academic rigor, an awareness of the diversity of ministry contexts, and a clear focus on CDSP’s core curricular commitments to mission, discipleship, and evangelism. Incorporate into all teaching a careful attentiveness to the key skills of contextualization, critical theory, and public conversation. Carry out a program of continuing engagement with academic research and scholarship, including making presentations at professional meetings and publishing articles, books, and reviews. Advising Serve as advisor to CDSP students in a variety of degree and certificate programs, including supervising theses for the M.A. and M.T.S. degrees. Engage with the pastoral and formational processes of advisees and other students preparing for ministry, ordained and lay. Become a Qualified Administrator (QA) of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Interpret the IDI for advisees, and work with advisees on their Intercultural Development Plans (IDP). Seminary Life Participate fully in seminary worship, including preaching at least once per semester, and presiding at eucharist if appropriate to ordination status. Participate actively in community life, including meals and other events with students and faculty. External Service Listen and speak to the needs of the church and the world. Such service may include guest preaching and speaking engagements, both locally and nationally; participation in national, provincial, diocesan, or congregational committees and task forces; attending or leading church conferences and events; writing and publishing articles, reviews, and books. Participate actively in the life and ministry of a local congregation. Shared Faculty Commitments Work with colleagues at CDSP and in the GTU in all aspects of graduate professional theological education. With faculty at CDSP, assess and make recommendations about students’ readiness and suitability for ordination. Collaborate on curriculum development with senior leadership at CDSP and partners at TCWS. With faculty and senior staff at CDSP and TCWS, develop and implement strategies for addressing racism in our largely white context. Complete the IDI, receive feedback, and develop and work on a personal IDP. Collaborate with faculty in further developing intercultural pedagogy and curricula. Serve on faculty committees and assume other responsibilities and special projects as required. Perform all duties in a manner that promotes CDSP’s mission and core values. Adhere to confidentiality rules and all other CDSP policies, procedures, and rules. CDSP faculty contracts cover a full 12-month year and require full-time presence on campus and participation in community life during January Intersession and June Intensive terms (2 weeks each), as well as Fall and Spring semesters. The normal teaching load is five courses spread over these four terms, whether face-to-face or online.

Head, Collection Services Division Hiring range: Librarian $93,649- $101,441 per annum, based upon qualifications This is a full time appointment available starting July 2019. The University of California, Berkeley Library seeks a creative and forward-thinking professional to develop a unified approach to library technical collection support service operations across library units in order to address the rapidly evolving and changing services in support of library collections. This position represents a key opportunity to steward an integrated collection services philosophy across the library and to lead, shape and collaborate with the staff and librarians engaged in selecting, acquiring, preserving, making accessible and discoverable scholarly resources for the University of California, Berkeley Library community. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, the Head, Collection Services Division will oversee the operational management, overall administration, long term planning, prioritization and coordination of acquisitions, cataloging and metadata services, e-resource management, preservation, and discovery. The Division Head is responsible for establishing and implementing technical collection support services policies, standards, best practices and procedures for the Library. The Division Head will lead three direct reports who collectively manage 4 librarians and 31 staff. The successful candidate will stay abreast of national trends and new developments in all areas of collection services. In this role the Division Head will collaborate with subject specialty libraries, other Library Division Heads, Library councils, Digital Library Program, Library administration and other departments and units within the Berkeley Library. The Division Head will also represent the Library at the UC system level and in regional, national, and international cooperative programs concerning collection support services and processing. The Environment The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's most iconic teaching and research institutions. Since 1868 Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic, and social value in California, the United States, and the world. Berkeley's culture of openness, freedom, and acceptance — academic and artistic, political and cultural — make it a very special place for students, faculty, and staff. Berkeley is committed to hiring and developing staff who want to work in a high-performing culture that supports the outstanding work of our faculty and students. Candidates are encouraged to read more about the UC Berkeley culture at http://jobs.berkeley.edu/why-berkeley.html . In a highly-diverse and intellectually-rich environment, Berkeley serves a campus community of over 30,000 undergraduate students, 11,000 graduate students, and 1,500 faculties. The Library also serves the people of California, and the world, through lending to over 35 countries a year, and making available a rapidly-growing archive of digitized special collections materials (over 4 million items so far). The UC Berkeley Library has contributed over 3 million digitized books to HathiTrust. The Library comprises 25 campus libraries, with a collection of nearly 13 million circulating volumes, almost 1.5 million e-books, subscriptions to over 130,000 journals and periodicals, and about 200 million items in its special collections, including rare materials held by The Bancroft Library, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, the Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, the Music Library, and the Anthropology Library. The UC Berkeley Library actively partners with the other nine UC campuses and the systemwide California Digital Library. The Library manages the systemwide off-site Northern Regional Library Facility. The Library has an operating budget of about $62 million with approximately 325 full-time employees and 600 student employees. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, the Head, Collection Services Division will: Provide leadership, direction, guidance and expertise in collection services The position will supervise, guide, direct and lead effective efficient collection service operations in the Library, including acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, discovery, e-resource management, and preservation. The Division Head is also responsible for planning, organizing, and managing services to meet evolving needs in best practices for acquisitions, e-resource management, cataloging and metadata, preservation, discovery and access to scholarly resources in all formats. The Division Head provides the expertise, guidance and direction to enable successful collection support service operations. This role will work with Department Heads to assess and ensure compliance with national and local standards for e-resource management, acquisitions, discovery, preservation, conservation and cataloging and metadata for digital content. This role will keep abreast of and guide Department Heads regarding current standards, best practices, emerging technologies and will implement locally as appropriate. In addition, the position will work collaboratively across the Library to develop, guide and enhance discovery and access for purchased, licensed, and locally created digital content. Lead collection support communications, policy and procedure development The Division Head will guide communications pertaining to the Division's priorities and accomplishments by sharing and disseminating information on a regular basis with technical support units and Library-wide. In addition the role will establish and evaluate existing policies, procedures and best practices, and set priorities in acquisitions, cataloging, and preservation in an intensely collaborative environment. They will work with collection support staff, and in consultation with subject specialty libraries, governing library councils, and library administration and will represent the Library at the UC system, regional, national, and international levels, including cooperative programs concerning technical collection services support work. Lead long term planning, collaboration and assessment for collection services and projects that advance the Library's strategic plan The Division Head coordinates, collaborates, and systematically assesses collection support service operations to enhance the Library's discovery, collection development and digital strategies. The role contributes to Library-wide strategic planning, Department goal setting, and to all initiatives and projects that advance the Library's strategic plan as well as leads the development of assessment and benchmark strategies, statistics, and narrative and statistical reports to support short and long-term planning of the technical collection support services. This position is responsible for liaising and collaborating with Division Heads who manage any decentralized technical service operations or processes, in order to ensure consistency and best practices across the Library. This is a non-represented librarian position and is covered by the UC Academic Personnel Manual (APM). UC Berkeley librarians are expected to participate in library-wide planning and governance and work effectively in a shared decision-making environment. Librarian advancement is partially based upon professional contributions beyond the primary assignment; the successful candidate will show promise or evidence of such contributions to the Library, campus, UC system, and profession. This recruitment will remain open until filled.

Invitation for faculty position applications UC Berkeley is one of the world's premier public universities, and Berkeley Engineering maintains top rankings among engineering programs nationally, public or private. With more than 240 tenure-track faculty members, 2,100 graduate students and 3,400 undergraduate students located in seven academic departments, Engineering is the second largest college on the Berkeley campus. Our reputation for intellectual rigor, our talent for developing technologies that improve quality of life and our entrepreneurial spirit are reflected in our faculty and students, and by our physical environment. We offer a dynamic, interdisciplinary, hands-on education, challenge conventional thinking and value creativity and imagination. We invite applications to open faculty positions in the College of Engineering ( https://engineering.berkeley.edu/faculty-positions ). New job announcements are added throughout the year, so please check back regularly for updates. Also note that each job listing has its own application deadline and application requirements; please refer to the specifics in each announcement.

University of California, Berkeley Department of Mechanical Engineering Seeks Applications for a Tenure-Track Faculty Position The DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, University of California, Berkeley, seeks candidates for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level, starting July 1, 2020 or on a mutually agreed date thereafter. The department seeks candidates with expertise in one or more of the following: Fluid Mechanics; Energy Science and Technology; Design and Manufacturing; and Control and Robotics. The department is committed to fostering interdisciplinary research that can address societal grand challenges including but not limited to: Aerospace systems interpreted broadly, including aviation and space exploration. Areas of interest include but are not limited to ultra-efficient propulsion technologies and thermal management, green aviation, high-speed and hypersonic flight, vehicle design including active structures and materials that may sustain extreme thermal and mechanical loads, navigation and sensing technologies, and orbital and flight dynamics and control. Sustainable technologies and systems for enhancing energy efficiency and/or reducing environmental impact, including but not limited to solar power technologies, advanced wind turbines, wave power generation, storage and thermal management technologies that enhance power plant and energy conversion efficiency, green manufacturing, efficient water usage and desalination, and fundamental aspects of thermal sciences and energy conversion. Autonomy and artificial intelligence for enhanced performance, safety and quality of life. Examples include the use of emerging technologies in AI, machine learning, data science, 5G communication, IoT, sensing and control, and/or computation among others in aerospace, industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, smart mobility, smart energy systems, human-autonomous system interaction, and other mechanical engineering application domains. We seek candidates with exceptional promise in research, teaching and service, who will proactively contribute to our department's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. We may consider possible joint appointments with other UC Berkeley departments or College of Engineering-affiliated institutes. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values in the College of Engineering. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and staff who share our commitment to these values. Successful candidates for our faculty positions will have to demonstrate evidence of a commitment to equity and inclusion. A statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including information about your understanding of these topics, your record of activities to date, and your specific plans and goals for advancing equity and inclusion, if hired as a Berkeley faculty member, will be required as part of the application package. Please note that the statement may be evaluated as a standalone document. Financial and in-kind resources are available to pursue activities that help accelerate our efforts to achieve our equity and inclusion goals, with the full backing of the College. Guidelines to applicants on writing effective statements that demonstrate commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion can be found at: https://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversity/support-faculty-candidates . Examples of ongoing programming in the College are available at: https://engineering.berkeley.edu/diversity

Recruitment Period Open October 31st, 2019 through Monday, Dec 2, 2019 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Description The Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, at the University of California, Berkeley are conducting an open search to fill one or more tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level in Quantum Information Science and Technology (experiment or theory) with an expected start date of July 1, 2020. Joint appointments with UC-affiliated institutes and initiatives (such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) or other UC Berkeley departments (such as the Department of Chemistry), will also be considered. The Department seeks candidates who have demonstrated originality and productivity in research, promise in teaching, and the potential to advance the department's goal of a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive scholarly environment, and in alignment with Federal affirmative action goals and the UC Berkeley strategic plan for equity and inclusion: http://diversity.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-strategic-plan-equity-inclusion-and-diversity    

  Recruitment Period Open October 7th, 2019 through Friday, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Description The College of Engineering and the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California at Berkeley seek applications for a tenure-track faculty position, at the Assistant Professor level in Development Engineering with an expected start date of July 1, 2020. Development Engineering is a growing multidisciplinary field that integrates engineering, economics, business, natural resources, public health and social sciences in order to create, implement, evaluate and scale new technologies to benefit people living in poverty in developing regions and low-income areas in the U.S. The goal is to solve big societal problems both globally and locally. Example focus areas include, but are not limited to: engineering better health, the nexus of food, energy and water systems, accessible low-cost energy technologies, the digital transformation of societal systems, climate change mitigation, and sustainable design and communities. Research in any one of these areas will enable cross-campus multi-disciplinary collaborations for innovation of scalable and sustainable technological solutions to improve the human condition and lift people out of poverty, particularly in developing economies. Applicants will be hired into a home department within the College of Engineering: Bioengineering; Civil & Environmental Engineering; Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences; Industrial Engineering & Operations Research; Materials Science & Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; or Nuclear Engineering. More information on the College of Engineering, and a link to each department, is available at http://engineering.berkeley.edu/ The successful candidate will be expected to contribute meaningfully to both their home department and to the activities of the Development Engineering Graduate Group, housed in the Blum Center for Developing Economies. They will be expected to teach courses in both their home department and the Development Engineering Graduate Group, and have a strong commitment to excellence in research, teaching, service, and contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion. The Graduate Group in Development Engineering is getting ready to offer a new Professional Masters in Development Engineering. It is expected that the new faculty member selected will participate in the pedagogy associated with the new Masters. The Blum Center for Developing Economies leverages the talent, enthusiasm, and energy of the University of California community to address global poverty. The Blum Center's interdisciplinary problem-solving approach draws on students and faculty dedicated to facing this challenge through innovative technologies, services, and education. It catalyzes the efforts of the university community, in partnership with for-profit, nonprofit, and government entities, to develop scalable and sustainable solutions. These multidisciplinary approaches are built around new technologies with great potential for low-income regions. The Blum Center invests in promising efforts and shepherd them to the next stage, engaging partners outside the university interested in bringing these innovations to millions. In addition to hosting the Development Engineering Graduate Group, the Blum Center also offers an undergraduate minor in Global Poverty & Practice and manages the Big Ideas contest that provides funding, support, and encouragement to students who have “big ideas” for social and entrepreneurial impact. More information about the Blum Center is at: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu . Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values in the College of Engineering and the Blum Center. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students and staff who share our commitment to these values. Successful candidates for our faculty positions will demonstrate evidence of a commitment to equity and inclusion. Financial and in-kind resources are available to pursue activities that help accelerate our efforts to achieve our equity and inclusion goals, with the full backing of the College of Engineering. Examples of ongoing programming at the College are available at: engineering.berkeley.edu/diversity.