Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Organizations
University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Education
United States

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The University of California Berkeley School of Education (GSE) seeks a tenured or non-tenured scholar for the position of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. We imagine that the candidate will be in, or moving toward, mid-career as an advanced Assistant or Associate Professor with an exemplary scholarly record sufficient to be awarded tenure at UC Berkeley at the time of hire or shortly thereafter. This scholar should be trained in the social sciences and will teach in the Master’s, Ed.D. and Ph.D. programs of the GSE’s Policy, Politics, and Leadership (PPL) cluster as well as in its professional Leadership Programs. There also will be opportunities to teach in the school’s Undergraduate Education Programs (UEP). Issues of equity, particularly racial equity, are central to the mission and goals of the GSE. Thus, the successful candidate will have demonstrated commitment to and a record of advancing equity through research, teaching, and service.

Educational leaders have critical roles in shaping and responding to ideologies, power relationships, cultures, values, and human and material resources that are instantiated through policies and institutions that determine the viability of schooling to help make democracy real. We seek a scholar with a compelling theoretical and methodologically rigorous research agenda and trajectory that centers on one or more of several possible foci, including but not limited to: 1) macro-level structures and institutional practices, and how leadership is embedded within them and potentially influences their transformation; 2) broad policy, political, legal, and historical forces in our racialized society that shape the function and dynamics of leadership and its impacts on learning in and beyond schools; 3) innovative investigations of organizational and resource management that reveal what leaders need to know and be able to do to enable more equitable and humanizing student and stakeholder outcomes; 4) research-practice partnerships to enhance professional learning and continuous improvement of PreK-12 schooling processes and cultures.

The GSE’s Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster engages rich theories and multi-methodological empirical studies and offers the MA and Ph.D. degrees. The GSE’s Leadership Programs include the Principal Leadership Program (PLI), an MA and licensure program, and the Leaders for Equity and Democracy (LEAD) Ed.D. Our Leadership Programs also are home to the 21st Century School Leadership Academy State Center (21CSLA), California’s initiative for high quality, equity centered professional learning for educational leaders of schools and districts that receive Title II funds. All of these Leadership Programs provide significant opportunities for research and interaction with local and state level leaders and cross-sectional institutions.

Responsibilities:

1. Conduct an innovative program of research and generate external funding to support on-going research and graduate student researchers in line with scholarly interests.

2. Develop and effectively teach doctoral and master’s level courses (and possible undergraduate courses) in areas of the scholar’s expertise and in line with curricular goals including addressing issues of race and equity of the PPL academic cluster and the Leadership Programs. Some Leadership Program classes meet in the evenings, on Saturdays, and during summer sessions.

3. Collaborate with the on-going work and meetings of PPL and the Leadership Programs.

4. Effective mentoring, support, and training of diverse doctoral and master’s students in research, writing, and other scholarly activities to meet MA, Ed.D., and Ph.D. degree completion milestones and requirements and guide their overall professional development.

Department: https://gse.berkeley.edu

Program: https://gse.berkeley.edu/leadership

Doctorate (or equivalent international degree), or enrolled in doctorate or equivalent international degree-granting program at the time of application.

Ph.D., Ed.D., or equivalent international degree. Knowledge of Leadership Programs’ operation, planning, and expansion. Experience and collaboration with leadership professional development in PreK-12 public education. Impactful contributions to increasing social/racial justice, diversity, and inclusion in education and society.

Assistant Professor

Position title: Assistant Professor

Individuals should submit their application at this level if they meet one of the following conditions: Current or recent PhD candidate or graduate; current or recent postdoc; current assistant professor (including those who are “senior” assistant professors near tenure). Please note that this level determination is only for application review purposes, not the ultimate appointment level of the finalist.

• 3 letters of reference required

Associate Professor/Full Professor

Position title: Associate Professor/Full Professor

Individuals should submit their application at this level if they meet one of the following conditions: Current tenured professor; position equivalent to tenured professor (ie., at an international university). Please note that this level determination is only for application review purposes, not the ultimate appointment level of the finalist.

• 3 required (contact information only)

We will only contact your references to request letters if you are advanced to the second round of review for the position, and we will seek your permission prior to doing so.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are core values at UC Berkeley. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and academic and non-academic staff who share our commitment to these values. Successful candidates for our academic positions will demonstrate evidence of a commitment to advancing equity, inclusion, and belonging.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality (http://apo.berkeley.edu/ucb-confidentiality-policy) prior to submitting their letter.

As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program Policy https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/5000695/SARS-CoV-2_Covid-19. All Covered Individuals under the policy must provide proof of Full Vaccination or, if applicable, submit a request for Exception (based on Medical Exemption, Disability, and/or Religious Objection) or Deferral (based on pregnancy) no later than the applicable deadline. For new University of California employees, the applicable deadline is eight weeks after their first date of employment. (Capitalized terms in this paragraph are defined in the policy.)