Asst. Professor - Architecture jobs in Sacramento, CA

The Department of Human Ecology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Design with a preferred emphasis in applied ecology and climate resilient communities and practices. This is an academic year (9-month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position that includes an appointment in the California Agricultural Experiment Station (AES). Faculty members who hold an Agricultural Experiment Station appointment have a responsibility to conduct research and outreach relevant to the mission of the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Participation in outreach programs and performance of University service are also expected.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a capacity to produce scholarly and creative work in environmental design that addresses critical socio-ecological issues around climate change adaptation, resilience, and mitigation. Their work should promote equitable and sustainable communities, drawing from a background in ecology as applied to the built environment, including (but not limited to) novel techniques in the ecological mapping and the design of climate-resilient communities; human-centered or engaged scholarship approaches to climate adaptation planning; or traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous approaches to landscape management.

The appointee will teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, with a typical load of three courses per academic year. They will teach core courses for the Sustainable Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture majors, including LDA 50 - Site Ecology and/or LDA 150 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. Additionally, they may be expected to teach upper-division studio or capstone offerings such as LDA 170 - Site Design; LDA 171 - Urban Design; LDA 18x Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio; or LDA 14x - SED Capstone Series. Typically, they will also teach one graduate or upper-division seminar that supports aligned graduate groups and advanced topics in LDA or SED. The appointee will conduct public outreach and/or community engagement, and provide service at the departmental, college, and university levels, as well as more broadly in the field and the design professions. This appointee is expected to collaborate with Cooperative Extension specialists and advisors, partners in allied professions, or other public stakeholders.

This recruitment is conducted at the assistant rank. The resulting hire will be at the assistant rank, regardless of the proposed appointee's qualifications.

Initial review of applications will be conducted using anonymized versions of the Statement of Research Accomplishments and Interests and the Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Applications demonstrating sufficient potential based on this review will be advanced to full review.

The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this commitment, UC Davis conducts a reference check on all first-choice candidates for Academic Senate Assistant Professor or Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment, Steps 4, 5, or 6, or Acting Professor of Law positions. The reference check involves contacting the administration of the applicant's previous institution(s) to ask whether there have been substantiated findings of misconduct that would violate the University's Faculty Code of Conduct. To implement this process, UC Davis requires all applicants for any open search for assistant professor to complete, sign, and upload the form entitled "Authorization to Release Information" into RECRUIT as part of their application. If an applicant does not include the signed authorization with the application materials, the application will be considered incomplete, and as with any incomplete application, will not receive further consideration. Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the entire application, only finalists considered for Academic Senate Assistant Professor or Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment, Steps 4, 5, or 6, or Acting Professor of Law positions will be subject to reference checks.

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Basic qualifications:

*Professional graduate degree in landscape architecture (MLA or equivalent) or in an allied field (e.g. planning, architecture, urban design) at the time of appointment. Ph.D. preferred or evidence of a strong research program.

* Evidence of leadership and organizational skills relevant to the development of a successful research, teaching and outreach program in the disciplines of landscape architecture and environmental design.
* Evidence of scholarship during graduate and post-graduate activities.
* Demonstrated ability or potential to obtain extramural support for research activities.
* Interest, understanding, and commitment to contributing to diversity. Demonstrated ability to contribute to diversity and inclusion of groups that are underrepresented in the academy through extension education, research, and/or service would be a plus.
* Demonstrated ability or potential to develop and instruct undergraduate and graduate courses and to present information to diverse audiences.
* Willingness and interest to advise undergraduates.
* Demonstrated ability or potential and interest to mentor masters and doctoral students.
* Evidence of communication skills and collegiality consistent with effective departmental, campus and professional citizenship.
* Interest, understanding, and commitment to the objectives of a land-grant university and the Agricultural Experiment Station including mission-oriented research and a substantive outreach engagement programming.

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