School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Living Learning Community House Fellow, AFRO Hall, AY 2024-2025
Position overview
Position title: Graduate House FellowTeaching Fellows will not be appointed for more than 50% time during the Fall and Spring semester.
Fall 2024 - August 16, 2024
Spring 2025 - January 1, 2025
Application Window
Open date: April 3, 2024
Most recent review date: Wednesday, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.
Final date: Friday, May 31, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description
The AFRO Hall Fellow (AHF) is an academic year position working 20 hours per week. The Fellow’s primary functions are to build a safe and inclusive learning community for residents of the Living Learning Community (LLC) and to support the academic mission of the University of California, Merced and Residence Education. The AHF will serve as student success coach for AFRO Hall Scholars. Duties include, but are not limited to, providing instruction of a one-unit first year seminar for LLC scholars that serves and is aligned to the mission of AFRO Hall outcomes, co-developing workshops and community building activities with team, weekly team meetings with AFRO LLC manager, AFRO academic advisor, and ResEd, hold office hours at least two hours a week, provide students with referrals to necessary campus resources, serve as a student liaison between the AFRO hall and the AFRO student organization, work with the larger AFRO team to prepare an annual report for AFRO Hall outcomes each semester, and co-develop and help implement marketing strategy for outreach and recruitment of incoming students.
Qualifications
Qualifications (must meet all listed qualifications):
• Bachelor's degree in the subject area or a related field
• Meet all TF eligibility requirements; advanced to candidacy for Ph.D. degree
• Maintenance of a qualifying grade point average
• Academically eligible to hold the appointment (per UC Merced's Graduate Policies and Procedures Handbook)
• Must be a registered UC Merced graduate student in full-time residence (registered for 12 units per term appointed; for summer appointment registered in 12 units in the previous term; incoming students for summer appointment have submitted the Statement of Intent to Register)
• Must have passed an Oral English Proficiency Examination (if applicable)
• Qualified candidates will have familiarity with residence hall communities
• Skills in collaboration, judgement and decision-making; Ability to identify problems and implement flexible, creative solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including active listening
• Ability to balance and maintain multiple, competing priorities
• history of involvement with Black student organizations
• strong mentoring skills
• classroom instruction experience
Application Requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Name of one UC Merced Recommender
Preferred: History of Involvement (Optional)
Preferred: Mentoring Skills (Optional)
Help contact: pthao29@ucmerced.edu
About UC Merced
The University of California, Merced, is the newest of the University of California system’s 10 campuses. With over 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students (https://cie.ucmerced.edu/analytics-hub/student-statistics), UC Merced is committed to interdisciplinary excellence in research and teaching as well as to diversity, equity and inclusion. Ranked as one of the best public universities in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, UC Merced provides outstanding educational opportunities to highly qualified students from the heart of California, the nation, and abroad. The campus has special connections to nearby Yosemite National Park; is on the cutting edge of sustainability in construction and design; and supports the economic development of Central California. The Merced 2020 Project doubled the physical capacity of the campus, and enhanced academic distinction, student success, and research excellence (https://merced2020.ucmerced.edu/).
The University of California, Merced is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.
As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements. This includes the University of California Policy on Vaccination Programs: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/5000695/VaccinationProgramsPolicy.