Position overview Position title: Assistant/Associate Project Scientist Salary range: Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Percent time: 20% Anticipated start: June 2022 Position duration: This position is for one year with the possibility of renewal based on satisfactory performance and availability of funding. Application Window
Open date: March 30th, 2022
Next review date: Wednesday, Apr 13, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Saturday, Apr 30, 2022 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 Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) of Northern California protects workers and communities from environmental health hazards through teaching, research, and service. COEH is based at the University of California, Berkeley, with additional programs at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Davis. COEH promotes health and safety in workplaces and communities by educating health professionals, developing new knowledge through an interdisciplinary research agenda focused on preventing illness and injury, and responding to the needs of people affected by hazards in their workplaces and communities. Through these activities, COEH supports federal, state, and local agencies; health and safety professionals; and industry, labor, and community-based organizations in their efforts to prevent occupational and environmental disease and injury.
Health from the Soil Up is a new initiative to promote involvement in food system transformation through targeted educational interventions and to evaluate the efficacy and impact of interventions. The program aims to empower health and medical professionals to make lasting positive changes to their local food landscape by promoting healthful, culturally relevant, and sustainable diets that support the health of individuals and their communities. COEH is accredited by the California Medical Association to provide continuing medical education (CME) to physicians, and by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide CEUs to nurses, among other accreditation/CEU types for non-matriculated learners. This program will work in coordination with COEH Continuing Education and the COEH Continuing Medical Education Committee to facilitate CEU/CME credit as appropriate.
This position will be responsible for developing a curriculum to prepare health and medical professionals to make meaningful changes in the food system, specifically in food production, agriculture, and sustainable diets. This includes conducting research on food systems and health interventions and collecting and analyzing learner data to evaluate efficacy and impact of curricula and educational interventions. This position will contribute high-level skill and oversight in developing a health-centered agriculture certificate program for non-matriculated learners, which will be delivered to nurses, physicians, registered nurses, and allied health professionals. Responsibilities also include ongoing needs assessment, creation and maintenance of strategic partnerships, recruitment of and engagement with subject matter experts, and facilitation of an Advisory Committee.
Professional Researchers are exclusively represented by the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) local (5810).
Division : https://www.coeh.berkeley.edu/faculty-information
Qualifications Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Ph.D. or other terminal degree (or equivalent international degree) Preferred qualifications
Experience with research in, and knowledge of, farm-to-fork programs, farming systems including traditional and sustainable agriculture, and the relationship between farming methods and public health
Five years of experience in food systems, sustainable diets, healthy-centered agriculture
Demonstrated collaboration and engagement with agricultural, medical, and/or public health professionals in a leadership capacity
Experience in development and delivery of strategic needs assessment, data collection, and analysis
Experience in culturally relevant cuisine, food sovereignty, and food justice
Experience in grant-writing Application Requirements Document requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter - 1-2 pages
Reference requirements
3-4 required (contact information only)
Applicants will be asked to name references to complete their application, but the references will not be asked to provide letters unless the analyst requests them.
Apply link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03358
Help contact: kleviege@berkeley.edu
Campus Information
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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.)
Job location Berkeley, CA
To apply, visit https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03358
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