Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns (CSC) is seeking a full-time, two-year postdoctoral research fellow who can begin work in August 2007.

Founded in 1983, the CSC is the university’s community-based learning center. Each year, approximately 800 undergraduate students take 1-3 credit courses involving community engagement that are initiated by the CSC. Students learn at sites across the U.S. and in 12 developing countries as well as in the local area. Through course development grants, research awards, etc., the Center also supports community-based learning and research efforts involving faculty and graduate students in disciplines and programs across the university.

The CSC conducts research on the impact of its community-based learning opportunities on undergraduates (http://socialconcerns.nd.edu/faculty/research/research.shtml). It is also interested in investigating the effects of these educational efforts in communities that receive Notre Dame students. The CSC is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to further this research agenda.

The responsibilities of the postdoctoral fellow will be:

1. To strengthen the Center’s capacity to fulfill its research agenda.
2. To make use of Center data assessing impact of its community-based learning efforts on students and/or in the local community. The expectation is that the fellow’s research will result in the production and submission of scholarly manuscripts.
3. To offer one or more courses each year in an area of interest that also fulfills the Center’s mission. Ideally a course would help students learn how to use quantitative research skills to address a local challenges or assist a community organization.
4. To assist the Center with the development and writing of reports and in the creation of instruments for the assessment of programs and student learning. The Center is developing university-wide assessment tools for undergraduate research, including community-based research; the fellow could work in conjunction with that effort.

Requirements:

• Strong research skills, quantitative methods preferred
• Record of publication
• Experience/interest in community-based research
• Ph.D. in field consistent with research and teaching that involve community engagement (e.g., anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, statistics). Degrees from interdisciplinary programs welcome.

Salary: $31,000 plus benefits

Review process will continue until the position is filled.

To ensure consideration, please send the following items to the address below:

• letter of interest describing experience, goals and project interests
• curriculum vitae
• sample of work (scholarly publication and/or syllabus from course you have developed)
• current contact information for three professional references

Contact: Joellen Conrardy, Postdoctoral Search Committee, Center for Social Concern, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 jconrard@nd.edu

The University of Notre Dame is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, disability, or veteran status. Members of under-represented groups as well as women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.