Link to full description: http://jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.php?id=5008

Salary Range: $50,000 - $65,000 (12 month annual rate); commensurate with relevant experience and education. The University of Oregon also offers a generous package of health and retirement benefits.

General Responsibilities

The Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) is a significant and ground-breaking catalytic learning-based program that directs existing courses across disciplines to serve a single city during an entire academic year. Its scale and breadth are unprecedented – 30 courses, 500 students, 60,000 hours and 12 disciplines focused on one city over an academic year. In SCYP, students and professors work directly on topics developed jointly by instructors and city staff, ensuring that student ideas and learning are indeed relevant to communities. The overall goals are to: 1) provide students with a real-world project to investigate; 2) apply their training; and 3) provide valuable service and movement to a local city ready to transition to a more sustainable and accessible future. While the idea is simple, its execution is complex, requiring considerable coordination and internal infrastructure to ensure that students get an enriching educational experience and that external deliverables are of the highest quality and carry the most significant impact.

We are seeking someone who can contribute to the entrepreneurial energy of SCI, yet manage one of our core programs in a disciplined, professional, and high quality way.

SCI is also a founding member of the new Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N), a group of 20 universities currently implementing an adaptation of SCYP. Additional responsibilities may include working with EPIC-N to help train other universities to adopt and adapt SCYP.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required
Outstanding organizational skills and ability to manage several activities at once
Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
Evidence of ability to work with varied audiences from diverse backgrounds and cultures, including faculty, students, elected officials, city staff, and funding agencies
Self-motivated, ability to work independently as well as part of a team
Energetic, passionate, and professional
Work history in related fields and which demonstrates increasing levels of administrative and/or supervisory responsibilities
Ability to travel within Oregon and occasionally elsewhere in the United States
Ability to present work at national conferences
Proficient user of Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with project management
Experience managing service learning activities
History of successful grant writing
Budgeting experience
Working knowledge of graphic and layout software (e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
Public relations and event planning
Position is subject to criminal background check.

Application Procedures

Letter of introduction addressing how and why the candidate is qualified for the position
Resume of educational and professional work experience
Two names of references (letters of recommendation not required, but will be accepted)
Position is subject to criminal background checks
Applications must be submitted electronically by email (preferably in PDF format) to Roseanne Johnson-Akers at rcj@uoregon.edu.

This posting will remain open until filled; applications will begin to be reviewed on February 11, 2015. The position is expected to start as soon as possible for the successful candidate. Inquiries about the position should be directed to SCI Co-Directors Marc Schlossberg (schlossb@uoregon.edu) or Nico Larco (nlarco@uoregon.edu).

The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the ADA. The University encourages all qualified individuals to apply, and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected status, including veteran and disability status.