Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Company: University of California - Davis
Location: Davis
Posted on: April 25, 2024
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Job Description:
Position overview
Salary range:
The salary range for this position is $[97,500]-$[120,100].
"Off-scale salaries" and other components of pay, i.e., a salary
that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the
designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet
competitive conditions, qualifications, and experience.
Application Window
Open date: November 6, 2023
Most recent review date: Monday, Jan 8, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific
Time)
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the
search committee if the position has not yet been filled.
Final date: Thursday, Oct 24, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but
those received after the review date will only be considered if the
position has not yet been filled.
Position description
The Department of Human Ecology in the College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis is
recruiting an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture &
Environmental Design with a preferred emphasis in applied ecology
and climate resilient communities and practices. This is an
academic year (9-month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position
that includes an appointment in the California Agricultural
Experiment Station (AES). Faculty members who hold an Agricultural
Experiment Station appointment have a responsibility to conduct
research and outreach relevant to the mission of the California
Agricultural Experiment Station. Participation in outreach programs
and performance of University service are also expected.
The successful candidate will demonstrate a capacity to produce
scholarly and creative work in environmental design that addresses
critical socio-ecological issues around climate change adaptation,
resilience, and mitigation. Their work should promote equitable and
sustainable communities, drawing from a background in ecology as
applied to the built environment, including (but not limited to)
novel techniques in the ecological mapping and the design of
climate-resilient communities; human-centered or engaged
scholarship approaches to climate adaptation planning; or
traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous approaches to
landscape management.
The appointee will teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate
students, with a typical load of three courses per academic year.
They will teach core courses for the Sustainable Environmental
Design and Landscape Architecture majors, including LDA 50 - Site
Ecology and/or LDA 150 - Introduction to Geographic Information
Systems. Additionally, they may be expected to teach upper-division
studio or capstone offerings such as LDA 170 - Site Design; LDA 171
- Urban Design; LDA 18x Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio; or
LDA 14x - SED Capstone Series. Typically, they will also teach one
graduate or upper-division seminar that supports aligned graduate
groups and advanced topics in LDA or SED. The appointee will
conduct public outreach and/or community engagement, and provide
service at the departmental, college, and university levels, as
well as more broadly in the field and the design professions. This
appointee is expected to collaborate with Cooperative Extension
specialists and advisors, partners in allied professions, or other
public stakeholders.
This recruitment is conducted at the assistant rank. The resulting
hire will be at the assistant rank, regardless of the proposed
appointee's qualifications.
Initial review of applications will be conducted using anonymized
versions of the Statement of Research Accomplishments and Interests
and the Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion. Applications demonstrating sufficient potential based on
this review will be advanced to full review.
The University of California is committed to creating and
maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application,
and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through
academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in
University programs and activities can work and learn together in a
safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment,
discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this
commitment, UC Davis conducts a reference check on all first-choice
candidates for Academic Senate Assistant Professor or Lecturer with
Potential for Security of Employment, Steps 4, 5, or 6, or Acting
Professor of Law positions. The reference check involves contacting
the administration of the applicant's previous institution(s) to
ask whether there have been substantiated findings of misconduct
that would violate the University's Faculty Code of Conduct. To
implement this process, UC Davis requires all applicants for any
open search for assistant professor to complete, sign, and upload
the form entitled "Authorization to Release Information" into
RECRUIT as part of their application. If an applicant does not
include the signed authorization with the application materials,
the application will be considered incomplete, and as with any
incomplete application, will not receive further consideration.
Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the
entire application, only finalists considered for Academic Senate
Assistant Professor or Lecturer with Potential for Security of
Employment, Steps 4, 5, or 6, or Acting Professor of Law positions
will be subject to reference checks.
UC Davis supports Family-friendly recruitments. UC Davis covers
travel expenses for a second person to accompany an invited faculty
recruitment candidate who is a mother (or single parent of either
gender) of a breast or bottle-feeding child less than two years of
age.
http://academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/programs/work-life/index.html
UC Davis recognizes the necessity of supporting faculty with
efforts to integrate work, family and other work-life
considerations. To recruit and retain the best faculty, the campus
sponsors a Work Life
Program that provides programs and services that support faculty as
they strive to honor their commitments to work, home and community.
http://academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/programs/worklife/index.html
The UC Davis Partner Opportunities Program (POP) is a service
designed to support departments and deans' offices in the
recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty. Eligibility for
POP services is limited to full-time Academic Senate Ladder Rank
faculty (including Lecturers with Security of Employment (LSOE),
Lecturers with Potential Security of Employment (LPSOE), Senior
Lecturers with Security of Employment (SLPSOE)), and Cooperative
Extension Specialists.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Basic qualifications:
*Professional graduate degree in landscape architecture (MLA or
equivalent) or in an allied field (e.g. planning, architecture,
urban design) at the time of appointment. Ph.D. preferred or
evidence of a strong research program.
Preferred qualifications (other preferred, but not required,
qualifications for the position)
* Evidence of leadership and organizational skills relevant to the
development of a successful research, teaching and outreach program
in the disciplines of landscape architecture and environmental
design.
* Evidence of scholarship during graduate and post-graduate
activities.
* Demonstrated ability or potential to obtain extramural support
for research activities.
* Interest, understanding, and commitment to contributing to
diversity. Demonstrated ability to contribute to diversity and
inclusion of groups that are underrepresented in the academy
through extension education, research, and/or service would be a
plus.
* Demonstrated ability or potential to develop and instruct
undergraduate and graduate courses and to present information to
diverse audiences.
* Willingness and interest to advise undergraduates.
* Demonstrated ability or potential and interest to mentor masters
and doctoral students.
* Evidence of communication skills and collegiality consistent with
effective departmental, campus and professional citizenship.
* Interest, understanding, and commitment to the objectives of a
land-grant university and the Agricultural Experiment Station
including mission-oriented research and a substantive outreach
engagement programming.
Application Requirements
Document requirements
Please download form. Once completed, signed, please upload
here.
The University of California is committed to creating and
maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application,
and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through
academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in
University programs and activities can work and learn together in a
safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment,
discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this
commitment, UC Davis conducts a reference check on all first-choice
candidates for Academic Senate Assistant Professor or Lecturer with
Potential for Security of Employment, Steps 4, 5, or 6, or Acting
Professor of Law positions. The reference check involves contacting
the administration of the applicant's previous institution(s) to
ask whether there have been substantiated findings of misconduct
that would violate the University's Faculty Code of Conduct. To
implement this process, UC Davis requires all applicants for any
open search for assistant professor to complete, sign, and upload
the form entitled "Authorization to Release Information" into
RECRUIT as part of their application. If an applicant does not
include the signed authorization with the application materials,
the application will be considered incomplete, and as with any
incomplete application, will not receive further consideration.
Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the
entire application, only finalists considered for Academic Senate
Assistant Professor or Lecturer with Potential for Security of
Employment, Steps 4, 5, or 6, or Acting Professor of Law positions
will be subject to reference checks.
Reference requirements
Apply link:
https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06136
Help contact: ebarnes@ucdavis.edu
About UC Davis
UC Davis is a smoke and tobacco-free campus
(http://breathefree.ucdavis.edu/).
We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and
particularly encourage applications from members of historically
underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals' with
disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who
demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse
and inclusive community. For the complete University of California
nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see:
http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct
Under Federal law, the University of California may employ only
individuals who are legally able to work in the United States as
established by providing documents as specified in the Immigration
Reform and Control Act of 1986. Certain UC Davis positions funded
by federal contracts or sub-contracts require the selected
candidate to pass an E-Verify check. More information is available
at: http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) is committed to
inclusive excellence by advancing equity, diversity and inclusion
in all that we do. UC Davis celebrates the multi-cultural diversity
of its community by creating a welcoming and inclusive environment
demonstrated through a variety of resources and programs available
to academics, staff, and students. Diversity, equity, inclusion,
and belonging are core values of UC Davis that are embedded within
our Principles of Community and are tied with how to best serve our
student population. Our excellence in research, teaching, and
service can best be fully realized by members of our academic
community who share our commitment to these values, which are
included in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Vision, our
strategic plan: "To Boldly Go," our Principles of Community, the
Office of Academic Affairs' Mission Statement, and the UC Board of
Regents Policy 4400: Policy on University of California Diversity
Statement. UC Davis is making important progress towards our goal
of achieving federal designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution
and an Asian American, Native American, and Pacific
Islander-Serving Institution. The Office of Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion offers a plethora of resources on their website, and the
Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (HEDI) has
outlined similar goals in their Anti-Racism and DEI Action Plan."
There are a plethora of links available on the About Us webpage
where you can learn more about our Administration, Diversity and
Inclusion, Rankings, Locations, Native American Land
Acknowledgement, Sustainability, Visiting UC Davis, UC Davis
Health, and Campus Safety.
The university is consistently ranked among the top institutions in
the world for campus sustainability practices by the UI Green
Metric World University Rankings. UC Davis is focused on achieving
net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and repeatedly shown its
commitment to preserving a healthy and sustainable environment for
generations to come.
As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all
applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining
agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or
local government directives may impose additional requirements.
Job location
Davis, California
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