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Community Science Coordinator

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Bard College
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Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

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Open Society University Network (OSUN)Community Science CoordinatorEmployer Website: https://apply.interfolio.com/82117

Bard College invites applications for the position of Community Science Coordinator for the Open Society University Network (OSUN) Global Community Science Coalition. The Community Science Coordinator will work with the Director of the OSUN Community Science Coalition and the Director of the Community Science Lab to strengthen partnerships with local and regional community groups while supporting community science engagement efforts involving faculty, students, and staff across the international campuses of the Open Society University Network. This is a full-time position.

The OSUN Community Science Coalition works to bridge the widening gaps between climate-adapting communities, academic institutions, and the equitable management of shared natural resources including drinkable water, fertile soils, and clean air. Through place-based, community-centric activities, the coalition leverages OSUN’s global distribution by creating a network of community-academic institution partnerships to investigate and address the coupled human and natural dimensions of resource sustainability in the face of climate change. Building on the strengths of the Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water, the Community Science Coalition supports community science projects through its Community Science Lab. This core lab facility conducts environmental testing in response to community concerns. The data generated will be used, along with measurements from field-based Climate Observatories, to evaluate local climate impacts and inform decision makers.

The successful candidate will excel at working in a community that is broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation and religion.

Bard College’s main campus is in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY with 1900 undergraduate students; the campus also features multiple graduate programs. The 1000 acre campus sits along the Hudson River and offers the Fisher Performing Arts Center, the Hessel Museum of Art, as well as the home of the Bard Prison Initiative, the largest college degree granting prison education program in the U.S. The Bard Network also includes several Bard High School Early Colleges across the country as well as five international campuses and partnerships. The Bard Network is complex and demonstrates Bard’s priorities well in addition to the College’s emphasis on civic engagement.

Bard College is a private institution working in the public interest. Bard faculty and staff lead their students by example, building upon the existing network of boundary-breaking programs focussed on rethinking who can and should be included in this kind of education.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
● Conduct virtual (and, when possible, in-person) meet-ups, workshops, training sessions, and lectures for new and existing programs
● Assist with the production and maintenance of web and social media content
● Collect and organize regular reports and updates on coalition project activities
● Work with the Bard Center for Civic Engagement to support educational outreach programming at Bard-Annandale and across OSUN and the Bard Network
● Support Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water programming including recruitment, training, coordination, and supervision of volunteers
● Mentoring of student interns
● Serve as the liaison between the Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water and local community collaborators, enabling student-community interactions and outreach efforts

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES:
● Bachelor’s Degree or two or more years of closely related employment
● Science background and/or citizen science experience
● Excellent listening, writing and speaking skills
● Ability to work with community collaborators (local and international)
● Potential to work autonomously, in close communication with other staff
● Flexibility and the ability to multitask and meet deadlines

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
● Community organizing and/or outreach experience
● Demonstrated commitment to social justice/environmental justice
● Experience teaching and/or training
● Web/social media design and management
● Ability to use Geographic Information Systems and applications (e.g., Google Earth, ArcView)
● A valid driver’s license and comfort driving 12-passenger vans
● Master’s Degree

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
● Must be able to sit for extended periods of time and work in standard office environment
● Must be able to work occasional weekends and evenings as needed to participate in community activities

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS:
● Passion for environmental issues and engaging with people and science
● Creativity and initiative to contribute to a range of new and ongoing projects
● Readiness to lead and work collaboratively with others in a variety of contexts and environments

Please submit a cover letter, resume, and the names of three references through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/82117. Review of applications will begin January 4 and will proceed until the position is filled.

Bard College is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, mental, or physical disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, familial status, veteran status, or genetic information. Bard is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for all individuals in employment practices, services, programs, and activities.

AA/EOE

Organization

Undergraduate Degrees

Bard offers courses of study in four divisions—Arts; Languages and Literature; Science, Mathematics, and Computing; and Social Studies—and in interdivisional programs and concentrations. Students may also earn a five-year B.S./B.A. degree in economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree—a B.Music and a B.A. in a field other than music. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the following undergraduate degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College; A.A. and B.A. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College; and through the Bard Prison Initiative at six correctional institutions in New York State.

Graduate Degrees

More than 200 students are seeking graduate degrees: M.A. in curatorial studies, M.Music in vocal arts, conducting, and curatorial, critical, and performance studies, and M.S. in environmental policy, climate science and policy, and economic theory and policy at the Annandale campus; M.F.A. and M.A.T. at multiple campuses; M.B.A. in Sustainability in New York City; and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. M.Music degrees are also offered at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Early Colleges

Bard's early colleges educate the next generation of thought leaders, preparing them to be lifetime learners. Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Cleveland, Ohio; Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; and Bard Early College New Orleans and Bard Early College at the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy all serve the needs of highly motivated younger students.

International Degrees

Internationally, Bard confers dual B.A. degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (Smolny College); American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; and Bard College Berlin: A Liberal Arts University; as well as dual B.A. and M.A.T. degrees at Al-Quds University in the West Bank.

Cultural Life

Campus life in Annandale is vibrant, with world-class performing arts venues; continuous and varied student activities; and numerous cultural and recreational opportunities in the surrounding historic Hudson River Valley and in New York City. Students choose from more than a hundred active clubs on campus, and new clubs begin every semester. The Bard College athletic teams are the Raptors. The College’s colors are red and white. The critically acclaimed Bard Music Festival is presented on campus each summer, exploring the life and work of a single composer through chamber music, choral and orchestral performances, symposia, panel discussions, and preconcert talks. Since 2003 the festival has been part of Bard SummerScape, which annually presents operas, films, and theatrical productions that complement the festival’s theme.

Outstanding Faculty

Bard's undergraduate faculty-to-student ratio is 1:10 and courses are taught by full faculty members. Among the many distinguished faculty at Bard College are five MacArthur Fellows—poets John Ashbery and Ann Lauterbach, novelist and memoirist Norman Manea, painter and multimedia artist Judy Pfaff, and journalist Mark Danner. Other notable faculty members include soprano Dawn Upshaw, journalist Ian Buruma, composers Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, poet Robert Kelly, and writers Luc Sante and Francine Prose. Over the years, four recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature have taught at Bard—Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, José Saramago, and Orhan Pamuk. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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