Biodiversity Academic Assistant_Sept2016toApril2017
The UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program at UBC is looking for a Biodiversity Academic Assistant to coordinate academic partnerships, support student learning and research, and support the creation of the online resource for the Biodiversity Project. The position is for eight months, starting September 2016 and ending April 2017. If you are interested in applying, please read the attached job description, and apply via UBC Careers Online by August 28th 2016 with a resume, cover letter, and professional writing sample (1 page max).
The UBC Social, Ecological, Economic, Development Studies ( SEEDS) Sustainability Program advances UBC’s commitment to explore and exemplify sustainability in campus operations by managing and supporting partnerships between staff, faculty and students on accredited projects that integrate campus Operations and Academia. This Program supports UBC’s Place and Promise goal to explore and exemplify sustainability. Since 2001, SEEDS projects have been integrated into over 180 courses, resulting in over 1100 innovative and high impact project reports published online, and over 6000 student, faculty and staff participants. A key program goal is to support campus staff in developing strategies for achieving the University’s environmental and social sustainability goals in fifteen thematic areas: climate, energy, water, waste, land, food, transportation, procurement, materials, community, health, wellbeing, green buildings, biodiversity and finance.
This role will support the SEEDS Sustainability Program continued success in enhancing the sustainability of the UBC campus. Working primarily in project coordination, the successful candidate will play a key role in coordinating a new cross campus project “Building Biodiversity: A Campus Resource for Teaching, Learning and Doing”. In close collaboration with the Faculty of Science, SEEDS applied and successfully received a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for this new project. The project involves collaboration with the Faculty of Forestry, School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), Faculty of Science (Botany, Zoology), School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC Building Operations, Planning and Design, and Sustainability and Engineering within Campus + Community Planning.
For more information about the position and how to apply, please see the attached description. If you have any questions about the position, please send an e-mail to SEEDS.info@ubc.ca .
David Gill
Program and Policy Planner, UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program
Community Development | Campus and Community Planning
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
Main Office #3331 -3rd Floor, 2260 West Mall, CIRS Building | Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
Phone 604 827 5252| Cell 604 442 8987
David.Gill@ubc.ca
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