Infant & Early Childhood Development (IECD) .5 Faculty Research Specialist
Reports to: IECD Program Director
Position: Regular, Part-Time
Wage Range: DOE
FLSA Status: Exempt
Fielding Graduate University is an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world. We do this by providing exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. We are seeking an IECD .5 Faculty Research Specialist to work remotely.
Summary
The Faculty Research Specialist (FRS) provides consultation to graduate students during the dissertation process, serves as an advisor to or member of the dissertation committee, and gives written feedback on documents developed during the dissertation process. In addition, the Faculty Research Specialist is expected to teach online term courses in research design and data analysis, in particular qualitative research courses. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience and expertise in various research designs including both qualitative and quantitative methods. The FRS will attend one in-person session per year to teach face-to-face seminars. The FRS may also participate in supervising research practicum students, working either on their own research or as a consultant to other faculty members’ research practicum teams.
ABOUT FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
Fielding Graduate University is an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world. We do this by providing exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. Fielding has approximately 1,050 students and 150 faculty members residing throughout the United States and internationally. Please visit our website at www.fielding.edu to learn more.
QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate must demonstrate excellence in communicating complex qualitative methodological issues in a conceptual manner to psychology graduate students with diverse substantive backgrounds and differing levels of research expertise. We expect that the successful candidate will have an established and ongoing record of research that focuses on the use of qualitative methods and/or demonstrates the use of these methods. A strong commitment to distance education and a desire to communicate collegially with students and faculty is particularly desirable.
A strong background in qualitative methods and considerable knowledge/expertise in several of the following areas is highly desirable: Narrative analysis, phenomenology, grounded theory, and mixed methods approaches. Expertise in quantitative methods and areas of clinical psychology are also desirable.
Application Instructions
Fielding Graduate University utilizes ADP Workforce Now for online applications. You will be prompted to create a user name and password to initiate the application process. Applications will not be considered complete unless both a resume and cover letter are uploaded. Applicants are encouraged to have their employment history, educational information, and professional references on hand while completing the application. The online application process takes approximately 30-60 minutes. Upon completion, applicants will receive a confirmation of receipt via email.
Fielding Graduate University is committed to social justice and diversity, and encourages individuals from historically underrepresented groups to apply.
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Fielding Graduate University is an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world. We do this by providing exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Fielding was founded in March of 1974 by Frederic Hudson, Hallock Hoffman, and Renata Tesch. The founders envisioned a nationally recognized graduate school based on two notions:
Fielding developed a rigorous, supportive learning model that is flexible, adult-centered, self-directed, practice-oriented, global, and competence-based.
The university offers graduate education in the fields of Psychology, Education, Leadership Studies, and Professional Coaching. Fielding is accredited by WASC, and its Clinical Psychology program is accredited by the American Psychological Association. The university has a deep commitment to examining and eliminating structural inequality in society.
Fielding Graduate University has a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from our earliest beginnings in the early 1970s. With the founding focus of providing doctoral education to mid-career adults, we offered graduate experiences specifically designed for people who had been left out of traditional education. Since that time, diversity, equity and inclusion remain an active process that requires continuous commitment to promote collaborative learning and change through attracting, retaining, graduating and honoring a more diverse population of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community friends. Social and ecological justice is part of our explicit commitment to understanding, analyzing and acting to reduce inequality, oppression and social stratification, recognizing the linkages between economic, social and ecological justice. The university strives to ensure that DEI are embodied in all academic programs including course content, faculty, staff and student performance, assessment and accountability. We challenge our community to think boldly and take specific actions that are realistic and measurable.
Fielding is also an active business leader in the local community of Santa Barbara, California, the location of the university’s main campus and administrative offices. In this role and in keeping with the university’s core values, Fielding actively supports several charitable organizations within the Santa Barbara community, such as the LGBTQ+ Pacific Pride Foundation, The Association for Women in Communications, The Fund for Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures, Child Abuse Listening Mediation (CALM), and the Environmental Defense Center.
In partnership with Pacific Pride Foundation, Fielding hosted a special Pride event brining into the Santa Barbara community, Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. Following the success of this event, Fielding hosted another civil rights event in the local community with Dolores Huerta, an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association (later became the United Farm Workers). As the world, battled the global pandemic, Fielding hosted a free virtual symposium this summer with an international list of leading psychologists, media professionals, and other panelists to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the world population.
Values
Academic Excellence: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.
Community: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.
Diversity: We commit to having a faculty, staff, and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge, and experiences of our diverse community.
Learner-centered Education: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.
Social Justice: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.
Transformational Learning: We inspire a re-examination of one's world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society