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Clerk IV (Office Manager) UMass Amherst
The Learning Resource Center (LRC) serves as the central academic and undergraduate support unit for UMass Amherst.  The LRC is looking to hire an Office Manager to support the operational and programmatic efforts of the office and serve as primary administrative support to the Executive Director and other LRC leadership. The primary duties of this position include serving as reception and primary point of contact for LRC administration and overseeing a team of undergraduate office assistants. Administrative duties include managing room reservations, undergraduate student hiring and timekeeping, purchasing and travel coordination, and additional clerical duties.
Associate Dean of Students UMass Amherst
Under the general direction of the Deputy Dean of Students, the Associate Dean of Students provides leadership, oversight, supervision, and strategic direction to Dean of Students Office staff coordinating crises response, case management, basic needs initiatives, and community education. Represents and acts in place of the Deputy Dean of Students in their absence.
Research Fellow UMass Amherst
The successful candidate will serve as a Research Fellow for an externally funded portfolio of community-engaged research studies. The Research Fellow will work closely with our interdisciplinary team to support the community engagement efforts of a robust portfolio of research studies that seek to improve access to quality mental healthcare. Responsibilities will include to: (1) support the planning, development, and implementation of community engagement efforts, including both Advisory Council and Working Group meetings, (2) facilitate logistics and scheduling of community engagement initiatives, (3) implement systems of iterative and ongoing bi-directional communication between community partners and research team members and (4) support a process of ongoing and continuous quality improvement.
Departmental Assistant (Residential Educator) UMass Amherst
Residential Educators live within the learning community providing education and support to students, who, in addition to their academic program, are also learning how to live, socialize and access resources on a college campus. In addition, educators provide residential on-duty support, crisis response and policy enforcement. During the summer session, Residential Educators will also work with other programs such as pre-college offerings etc. and will work directly with student staff. The ideal candidate for the role will be a recent college graduate with experience as a residential advisor and a passion for learning and working with youth. This is not meant to be a permanent position but rather an opportunity for recent graduates to gain experience in a program of this type in the Boston Area. Each year new Residential Educators are chosen to hold this position based on their alignment with their career goals and undergraduate experience and a relationship and/or commitment to the Student Life program goals and principles.
Post Doctoral Research Associate UMass Amherst
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will have the opportunity to assist in both the research and the community-partnered approaches to conducting this research. Responsibilities include writing scientific papers, quantitative and qualitative data collection and/or analysis, literature reviews, community engagement, and grant writing. Overall goals and specific activities will be determined collaboratively between the post-doc and Dr. Mackie, but can include multiple first-authored and co-authored journal articles, development of project leadership skills, research proposal submissions (PCORI, National Institute of Health, foundations), methods training, community engagement, conference presentations, and formal and informal mentorship and networking opportunities.
Coordinator for Student Learning UMass Amherst
The Coordinator for Student Learning will provide leadership for academic support, wellbeing and first-year student transition initiatives in residential communities.
Crisis & Acute Care Services Clinician UMass Amherst
The Crisis & Acute Care Services Clinician reports to the Coordinator for Crisis and Acute Care Services (CACS) of the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health (CCPH), providing support, assessment and direct intervention to students experiencing acute clinical distress, mental health crises, and other urgent situations. This is a split position where the clinician will act as a part of the Crisis Team and the Acute Care Team within the clinic.
Associate Director Graduate Career Development (Hybrid Opportunity) UMass Amherst
Reporting to the Director of Graduate Career Services, the Associate Director, Graduate Career Development applies industry-specific knowledge in performing career advising and placement duties for Isenberg School of Management’s students and alumni. The primary focus of this position will be on assisting students seeking professional-level internships and/or permanent placement career outcomes in a wide variety of corporate or non-profit organizations.
Lecturer - Information Systems & Data Management UMass Amherst
The Operations & Information Management (OIM) Department of the Isenberg School of Management invites applications for two full-time Lecturer positions, non-tenure track, in Information Systems and Data Management to start in February or September 2025.
Extension Educator II - Turf Landscape (Hybrid Opportunity) UMass Amherst
The Turf and Landscape Educator II will be an integral part of UMass Extension’s Commercial Horticulture group, supporting the development and implementation of educational resources and programming; including organization, presentation, and delivery of relevant research-based information to meet the needs of horticultural stakeholders statewide, with the enhancement of economic, human, and environmental health and sustainability of relevant industries as priorities.
Postdoctoral Research Associate 100% - CBIKS UMass Amherst
This position is with the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), a National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center. This position assists CBIKS thematic research groups in conducting “science of science” research within the CBIKS network. The eight research theme areas at CBIKS are: ethics, data sovereignty, relationality & research development, fieldwork & braiding knowledges, formal & informal science education, storywork & knowledge mobilization, training scientists, and policy & government agencies. This is an on-site position at CBIKS Central on the UMass Amherst campus in Amherst, MA with the possibility of some remote work. This is a one-year position with a possibility of renewal for a second year.
Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative UMass Amherst
The Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenured position in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. The appointment will be at the Associate Professor level beginning Fall 2025. For its initial three years (with potential for renewal) the position will be affiliated with Slavery North, an initiative that seeks to advance social justice by centering the cultures, experiences, lives, and resistance of enslaved peoples in Canada and the US North while bolstering public understanding of the social and cultural impacts of trans-Atlantic slavery and its legacies in the North, including how that history manifests in anti-Black racism today.
Archives and Manuscript Librarian (Temporary Position) (Hybrid Opportunity) UMass Amherst
The Archives and Manuscript Librarian (Archivist) will work with colleagues in the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA) to provide comprehensive support in the department’s ongoing efforts to curate and preserve its collections and to provide outstanding access to its holdings. The Archivist will assist patrons in learning and research; supervise use of the collections in SCUA’s reading room, train and supervise student assistants, work with classes to promote integration of primary sources into university curriculum, and implement professional standards in care, arrangement, and description of collections.
Social & Racial Justice Curator (Hybrid Opportunity) UMass Amherst
The Social and Racial Justice Curator will engage the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA)’s significant holdings of racial justice-related historical collections. This includes the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, Horace Mann Bond Papers, Gloria Clark Papers, the Black Feminist Archive, Frankie Ziths Papers (Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army materials), papers and many more. The Curator will be responsible for developing programming around these collections, engaging the UMass community and SCUA’s national audience with the collections and their content, and building on SCUA’s strong foundation of donors, contributors, and community connections.
Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor UMass Amherst
The Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor for Slavery North will actively participate in both the scholarly and social environment of the center. Visiting Research Professors, with support of Slavery North leadership, will conduct independent research and create original works in one or more of the five mandate areas of Slavery North which include 1) Canadian Slavery, (2) slavery in the US North, (3) the comparative study of slavery in Canada, the US North, and other northern or temperate regions, (4) the study of the inter-connectedness of slavery in Canada and the US North with Caribbean Slavery, and (5) Black-Indigenous relations in Canadian Slavery or US North Slavery. Furthermore, the research must center on the enslaved and/or adopt an anti-colonial, de-colonial, post-colonial, and/or anti-racist methodology/approach which challenges the nature of European and Euro-American imperialism and colonialism and interrogates the racist logic of the institution of Transatlantic Slavery.

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