Sustainable City Year Program Manager
Sustainable Cities Initiative
January 30, 2015
Professional Area:
Community Development and Redevelopment
Experience:
1-3 years
Contact person:
Roseanne Johnson Akers
Phone:
5413468591
Email:
rcj@uoregon.edu
Location:
Eugene, OR
To apply, please visit: http://jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.php?id=5008
Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) is a cross-disciplinary organization at the University of Oregon that promotes education, service, public outreach and research on the design and development of sustainable cities.
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.
Major Duties
Direct the Sustainable City Year program (60%):
- Recruit SCYP city partners by developing and maintaining positive relationships with Oregon cities and other potential SCYP partners (e.g. transit districts, counties, tribes).
- Coordinate the annual application and selection process for the SCYP partner city.
- Serve as the main point of contact for the SCYP partner city and for the professors involved in the program. Ensure that faculty, students, and city staff have the information and resources they need for a successful SCYP partnership.
- Recruit faculty to participate in SCYP, matching courses throughout the university and at other Oregon universities with projects proposed by the partner city.
- Arrange meetings and develop scope of work documents for each SCYP course.
- Develop necessary content and marketing material to facilitate both the implementation of SCYP in any given year and the recruitment of future partner cities.
- Recruit and work closely with student employees from SCYP courses who prepare and compile reports as part of the SCYP projects.
- Edit and format SCYP reports for submission to the city, along with handling communication regarding SCYP contracts.
- Work with the UO Libraries for SCYP support documents and archiving of project-generated work.
- Work closely with the SCI Grant Accountant in preparing SCYP budgets, submitting applications and maintaining the billing records for all SCYP contracts.
- Track and produce necessary paperwork for reimbursements and purchases related to SCYP.
- Supervise SCYP student staff (may include Graduate Teaching Fellows and other hourly or volunteer student workers).
- Give presentations about SCYP to organizations in the partner city, potential partner cities, legislators, academic classes, and conferences.
- Work on grant writing related to funding SCYP as appropriate.
SCYP Nationalizing (20%): In partnership with the SCI Co-Directors and a Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF), work to implement the requirements of a grant on expanding the adoption and adaption of SCYP to other universities and communities around the country. Some key outputs of this grant include:
- Developing print and digital materials, including video and audio modules and coordinating webinars, that can help communicate the various elements of SCYP.
- Help provide strategic direction in the development of EPIC-N, a “national network” of existing SCYP programs that provides shared content as well as potential for fundraising and other external support
General SCI (20%): participate and contribute to any general SCI activities that help us continue to innovate, work efficiently and effectively, such as grant writing, conference organizing, etc.
To view full qualification requirements and application procedures, please visit: http://jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.php?id=5008