Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Assistant Director of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation, Carnegie Mellon University
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
UNIVERSITY DESCRIPTION
Carnegie Mellon University is a global research university with more than 11,000 students, 75,000 active alumni and more than 4,000 faculty and staff. Recognized for its world-class arts and technology programs, collaboration across disciplines and leadership in education, Carnegie Mellon is consistently a top-ranked university.
UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
The University Athletic Association, a national NCAA Division III athletic conference founded in the summer of 1986, is a bold statement of what college athletics can and should be. UAA members share the belief that it is highly desirable and possible for a group of committed institutions to conduct a broad-based program of intercollegiate athletics for both men and women; that it is beneficial to compete with like academic institutions spread over geographically expansive areas; and that it is possible to seek excellence in athletics while maintaining a perspective which holds the student-athlete and the academic mission of the institution as the center of focus. Members of the UAA believe that academic and athletic excellence is not mutually exclusive. The eight members of the UAA are Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Chicago, Emory University, New York University, the University of Rochester and Washington University in St. Louis. All members are private, research universities situated in major metropolitan areas.
Download position description: Carnegie Mellon University – Assistant Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact Carnegie Mellon University directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Policy Analyst, Consumers Union
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Consumers Union is a not-for-profit organization founded in New York in 1936 with the mission to work for a fair, just and safe marketplace for all consumers. Consumers Union is the advocacy division of Consumer Reports, with offices in New York, Washington, DC, Texas, and California. Consumers Union’s West Coast Office was founded in San Francisco in 1975. For 75 years, Consumers Union’s constituency has been solely the consumer. It buys and tests products and services, just as consumers would buy and use them. It informs consumers about the best and worst in the marketplace through its flagship magazine, Consumer Reports, its other publications, and its website at www.ConsumerReports.org. Its advocacy division protects consumers by giving a voice to their concerns in federal and state legislatures and regulatory agencies. When circumstances, laws, or common practice are unfavorable to consumers, it works to shift the balance of power in their favor. It exposes abuses and works to change the marketplace through policy research and published reports, lobbying, grassroots and media campaigns, social networking, engaging its nearly one million consumer activists, and collaboration with other groups in the fight to advance pro-consumer goals. Independence is a cornerstone of the trust that consumers have placed in Consumers Union over many decades. Free of ads and free of commercial ties, Consumer Reports and its advocacy arm, Consumers Union, is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization that exists only for consumers.
Download position description: Consumers Union – Policy Analyst
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact Consumers Union directly.
Job Opportunity / Postdoc: Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
CLIR is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. It seeks to: 1) foster new approaches to the management of digital and nondigital information resources so that they will be available in the future; 2) expand leadership capacity in the information professions; and 3) analyze changes in the information landscape and help practitioners prepare for them.
CLIR and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), working with leading liberal arts colleges and universities, have launched a broad-based, collaborative publishing experiment that is scalable, widely adoptable, low-cost, and readily accessible by scholarly authors and readers. The project, called Anvil Academic Publishing, is a new digital academic publishing platform designed to address both the current crisis in academic publishing and the opportunities presented by digital technology, particularly the emergence of portable electronic reading/writing devices. The publishing platform is fully digital, with titles published on the Web and as apps on portable devices.
Download position description: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) – Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact CLIR directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Associate Director, Forum on Education Abroad
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The Forum on Education Abroad is a nonprofit global membership association of over 600 U.S. and foreign colleges and universities, study abroad provider organizations and agencies that sponsor education abroad programs that account for over 90% of the U.S. students participating in study abroad. Recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as the Standards Development Organization (SDO) for education abroad, the Forum is the only organization whose exclusive purpose is to represent and serve the field of education abroad. The Forum sets the standards and guidelines for education abroad, and through its conferences, workshops, events, publications, resources, and research and data collection efforts, advances the field and supports its member institutions. Its annual conference attracts 1,500 people from around the world and is the largest and most important education abroad gathering. The Forum’s Quality Improvement Program, akin to an accreditation process, is recognized as the definitive means by which education abroad programs are judged. The Forum is hosted by Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which provides complete office and infrastructure support to the Forum.
Download position description: Forum on Education Abroad – Associate Director
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the Forum on Education Abroad directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Program Officer, Leadership and Alumni Development, German Marshall Fund
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy and grant-making institution dedicated to promoting better understanding and cooperation between North America and Europe on transatlantic and global issues.
Download position description: German Marshall Fund of the United States – Program Officer, Leadership and Alumni Development
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the German Marshall Fund directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Human Rights Researcher/Advocate, Human Rights Watch
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. It stands with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. It investigates and exposes human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. It challenges governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. It enlists the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.
HRW operates in approximately 40 countries and its rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For more than 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.
Download position description: Human Rights Watch – Human Rights Researcher/Advocate
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact Human Rights Watch directly.
ACLS Fellows in the News: Amy-Jill Levine F'92 speaks at the 17th Seeds of Faith interfaith conference this weekend. http://bit.ly/wgaESa
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services, Newberry Library
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The Newberry Library, open to the public without charge, is an independent research library dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, especially in the humanities. The Newberry acquires and preserves a broad array of special collections research materials relating to the civilizations of Europe and the Americas. It promotes and provides for their effective use, fostering research, teaching, publication, and life-long learning, as well as civic engagement. In service to its diverse community, the Newberry encourages intellectual pursuit in an atmosphere of free inquiry and sustains the highest standards of collection preservation, bibliographic access, and reader services.
The Newberry is in the midst of multiple ongoing, technology-based activities, including developing a digital asset management system, determining how to manage and preserve born-digital assets, producing digital publications and online exhibitions for scholarly and general audiences, and more. The responsibilities of this position will involve engagement with all of these developments, and with the Newberry’s scholarly and public mission, collections, and multiple audiences.
Download position description: Newberry Library – Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the Newberry directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Legislative Studies Specialist, National Conference of State Legislatures
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation’s 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. NCSL’s Legislative Management program provides research, technical assistance, project management, publications and training services regarding the organization, operation and management of state legislatures, issues related to elections, campaigns, ethics, and the skills necessary for legislators and staff to effectively execute their legislative roles and responsibilities. NCSL’s Trust for Representative Democracy is a public outreach and education program designed to improve public understanding of state legislatures and Congress and to address the problems of public distrust and cynicism toward government.
Download position description: National Conference of State Legislatures – Legislative Studies Specialist
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact NCSL directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Special Projects Coordinator, New York Public Library
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is the most heavily used library system in the United States with over 27 million items borrowed and 45,000 programs offered last year alone. From programs in the digital humanities to classes in English for Speakers of Other Languages, NYPL serves a diverse constituency of users. The Library’s neighborhood community libraries and research centers provide free and democratic access to their resources, services, programming, and exhibitions to more than 18 million people each year. Research and circulating collections combined contain more than 65 million items; and the Library’s website, www.nypl.org, receives over 31 million visits annually from around the world.
Download position description: New York Public Library – Special Projects Coordinator
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the NYPL directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Policy and Research Advisor, Oxfam America
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Oxfam is a confederation of 15 affiliate organizations globally with a core mission to support lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Oxfam takes a partner-based, rights-based approach to this work through humanitarian assistance, long term development programs, policy advocacy and campaigning.
Oxfam wants to engage in the debates on re-visioning the role and treatment of economic growth in the wake of the global economic crisis by offering fresh thinking on the challenges surrounding progress, poverty and inequality today. Turning to the past to draw lessons and inspiration seems apropos and yet far too often neglected in Washington- and Wall St. -driven policy discussions. Oxfam believes turning to the past to reflect on historical moments of deep socio-economic crisis in terms of how the crisis arose/evolved, reflecting on the material and socio-political conditions surrounding it and which lead to or enable particular responses and how they play out would be useful and a fresh approach in the Washington context.
Oxfam believes that public policy advocacy and issue campaigning require a solid research and analysis base upon which to build the public policy reforms and calls for change for which the organization advocates. The policy and research advisor will work within the Research Unit and closely with policy advisors and advocates to provide the needed research, analysis and relationships.
Download position description: Oxfam America – Policy and Research Advisor
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact Oxfam directly.
ACLS Board Member Teofilo Ruiz receives 2011 National Humanities Medal from President Obama
President Barack Obama presents a 2011 National Humanities Medal to Stanford University professor Ramon Saldivar, Monday, Feb., 13, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Mexican-American Prof. Saldivar teaches classes in comparative literature and studies transnationalism related to the Chicano community. UCLA Professor Dr. Teofilo Ruiz, was also among the nine people to receive a medal. He defected from the Cuban Revolution, was jailed and exiled to Miami, and eventually earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Inside Higher Ed on Anvil Publishing, an ACLS Public Fellows partner org
A 2012 ACLS Public Fellow will be appointed to Anvil Academic Publishing. Full position description. Apply at www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows by March 21.
Anvil Academic aims to provide platform for digital scholarship
Academics who specialize in using technology to conduct and enable new kinds of humanities research are in high demand. At the same time, the current ecosystem of scholarly publishing can be inhospitable to their often-idiosyncratic research projects.
Two well-known organizations are teaming up with a handful of colleges and universities to try to change that by building a flexible platform where digital humanists could have their research published and certified that the work has passed through well-respected editorial gantlets.
The platform, called Anvil Academic, is a joint project by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Council for Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Anvil aims to make it easier for digital humanists to publish nontraditional scholarly work under the auspices of traditional outlets, such as university presses.
» via Inside Higher Ed
Postdoc/Job Opportunity: Democracy Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Founded in 1969, The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. UCS has an annual operating budget of approximately $23 million, a professional staff of 135, and more than 350,000 members and activists.
Center for Science and Democracy is a new UCS initiative designed to re-establish science as a cornerstone of the American democracy. It is premised on the fact that science and democracy share a set of precepts and values that guided the formation and maturation of our democracy, and the belief that pragmatic public policy, drawing upon the most reliable scientific and technical knowledge available, should continue to be a hallmark of democracy in the United States. In establishing the center, UCS seeks to restore broad demand for, and confidence in, the use of independent science as a key to effective public policy and governance, and marginalize efforts to misrepresent scientific evidence. To this end, UCS will facilitate collaborations among experts across disciplines to inform, engage and motivate citizens and decision-makers to value and support a strong role for science in public policy. The work of the Center includes a new series of Science and Democracy Forums, convening experts and practitioners together at major academic centers to tackle key obstacles to science-based policy-making.
Download position description: Union of Concerned Scientists – Democracy Analyst
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact UCS directly.
ACLS Public Fellows Program
Apply now: http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows
ACLS invites applications for the second competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. Compensation will be competitive with new professional employees of the hosting organization and will include health insurance for the fellow.
The program, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.
ACLS seeks applications from Ph.D.s who have received their degrees in the last three years and who aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Competitive applicants will have been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences.
Applicants must:
- possess U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status;
- have a Ph.D. in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between January 2009 and the application deadline; and
- not have applied to any other ACLS fellowship programs in the 2011-2012 competition year, including the New Faculty Fellows program.
Prospective applicants should read through all the positions listed below and be ready to choose one when beginning the online application process. Applicants may apply to only one position. The deadline for submitted applications is Wednesday, March 21, 6pm EDT, and applications must include: (1) completed application form; (2) cover letter tailored to a specific position; (3) resume; (4) candidate statement; and (5) one nomination letter. Applications for these positions are accepted only through the ACLS Public Fellows program. Only complete applications, submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by the deadline, will be considered.
Submitted applications will undergo ACLS’s standard rigorous peer review process, which may include interviews by ACLS and by the hosting organization. Reviewers will look for:
- applicant’s academic accomplishment and success;
- demonstrated relationship between past experience and specified position; and
- commitment to the public and/or nonprofit sector.
Participating Agencies and Positions
Click on the positions to view the PDF of the full description, which includes detailed information on the hosting organization, the position, and requisite qualifications.
- Carnegie Mellon University – Assistant Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
- Consumers Union – Policy Analyst
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) – Global Projects Manager
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) – Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing
- Forum on Education Abroad – Associate Director
- German Marshall Fund of the United States – Program Officer, Leadership and Alumni Development
- Human Rights Watch – Human Rights Researcher/Advocate
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Associate Development Officer
- National Conference of State Legislatures – Legislative Studies Specialist
- Newberry Library – Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services
- New York Public Library – Special Projects Coordinator
- Oxfam America – Policy and Research Advisor
- Union of Concerned Scientists – Democracy Analyst
Do not contact any of these organizations with questions (on the position, benefits, etc.). ACLS will field only questions about the fellowship program itself and not on the positions or the organizations. Please carefully review the program description, the positions, and the sample application before contacting ACLS. Questions about the fellowship program can be directed in writing to pstranahan@acls.org (no calls please).