Employment Opportunities
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UMass Amherst is proud to have a dedicated, passionate, and diverse community of faculty and staff. We are currently hiring for the positions listed in the link below and look forward to hearing from you! We currently have the following positions available within the College:
Lead Manager - SBS Dean's Office
Hybrid opportunity. The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences' Lead Manager will be responsible for overseeing qualified leads for the College's online and master's programs. The postion will be responsible for monitoring and analyzing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data, qualifying and developing leads, and recommending appropriate allocation of marketing resources to follow-up with prospective students. Successful candidates will have a bachelor's degree, be comfortable interacting with leads via email and Zoom, and have the ability to quickly learn how to utilize computer-based registration and academic records technology.
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Human Resources Specialist - SBS Dean's Office
Hybrid opportunity. Under the general direction of the Director of Personnel for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Human Resources Specialist supports the College in meeting its operational and strategic objectives, with a high degree of judgment, initiative, and leadership. This position serves as an advisor and consultant on matters related to human resource management, personnel policies, and procedures. Qualified candidates will have a bachelor's degree and 3 years of human resources experience, or an associate's degree and 5 years of experience.
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Coordinator of Internship and Field Experience Programs - SBS Pathways Center
The Coordinator of Internship and Field Experience Programs supports the development and implementation of new and existing high-impact experiential learning programs, with special emphasis on expanding and enhancing the SBS signature "SBS in..." cohort model program. Responsibilities include assisting the Director of SBS High-Impact Practice Initiatives to create connections and opportunities for new programs, creating print and digital recruitment materials, supporting students through the application process, as well as creating and streamlining systems. Qualified candidates will have a bachelor's degree and strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills.
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Grants & Contracts Coordinator II - Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)
As part of the grant support team in ISSR, the Grants and Contracts Coordinator provides comprehensive pre- and post-grant award administration. Responsibilities include: coordinating the development of research grant proposals to federal, state, and private funding sources; developing budget and budget justifications sufficient to support projects or programs; coordinating collaborative proposals with on- and off-campus personnel; maintaining familiarity with University grant and award policies; and facilitating grant renewal, extensions, and amendments. Qualified candidates will have a high school diploma with three years of related experiences, including at least two years of grants/contracts administration support. An associate's in accounting, business administration, business management, or public administration may be substituted for two years of required experience.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Department of Economics
The Department of Economics seeks a two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate. This position offers an exciting opportunity to pursue collaborative research on the political economy of essential sectors and a pos-neoliberal economic stabilization paradigm. The associate joins the PI, Isabella Weber, to develop a new understanding of systemically important sectors from a historical, economic, and policy perspective, and to lay out new approaches to inflation policy and economic disaster preparedness for an age of overlapping emergencies.
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Accountant I - Department of Journalism
The Accountant I provides comprehensive financial management and administration to ensure the smooth operation of Department business functions. Duties include, but are not limited to: overseeing and reporting on the Department's financial status; collaborating with the Department Chair and Administrator on budgetary planning; providing long and short-term budget projections; managing revenue accounts; serving as a financial liaison with campus offices and vendors; managing and tracking Department expenses and receipts; and providing fiscal support for contracts, travel, and more. Qualified candidates will have three years of financial administration or accounting experience.
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Lecturer in Public Relations - Department of Journalism
The Department of Journalism is accepting applications for a full-time (9-month), non-tenure track Lecturer in Public Relations. The selected candidate will be a core member of the Department's rapidly growing Public Relations (PR) Concentration, and will be responsible for teaching three PR courses per semester. They may also be asked to advise our highly active, student-led Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter. Successful candidates will have a master's degree; those with industry experience in public relations, strategic communication, or a related field are especially encouraged to apply.
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Lecturer - Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP)
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning seeks a full-time lecturer. Teaching responsibilities will include a 2-3 teaching load, serving as the Program Director for the Sustainable Community Development undergraduate program, and serving as a principal advisor in the Regional Planning graduate program. Candidates capable of teaching a broad variety of courses, especially regional planning, sustainable community development, community development, policy analysis and implementation, planning history and theory, and digital technologies, are encouraged to apply.
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Horowitz Professor/Endowed Chair - Department of Political Science
The Department of Political Science seeks an established scholar at the full or advanced associate professor rank for the Leonard J. Horowitz Professorship in Latin American Politics and Studies. The department is especially interested in candidates with expertise in comparative politics who can build on the department's past and current strengths in interdisciplinary scholarship. Innovative scholars working in the areas of contentious politics, gender and sexualities, race and ethnicity, indigeneity and colonialism, political economy and development, environmental politics, violence, democracy, and authoritarianism are encouraged to apply.
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Associate Director of Finance - Department of Political Science
The Department of Political Science seeks an Associate Director of Finance to provide comprehensive financial management and administration to ensure the smooth operation of department business functions. The Associate Director will provide budgetary planning information, assist with the preparation of budget allocations for each fiscal year, provide oversight for Department accounts to ensure accuracy and compliance with University standards, advise faculty on policies and procedures surrounding grants and expenses, among other responsibilities. Qualified candidates will have a bachelor's degree with four years of relevant experience, or an associate's degree with six years of relevant experience.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Computational Social Science
Charlie Schweik, Department of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy, and Brenda Bushouse, School of Public Policy, seek a Postdoctoral Research Associate with specific interests in the study of institutional analysis (the study of governance, and rules and norms of behavior) for a two-year appointment working on an NSF-funded project. The candidate needs to be a systems-level thinker, preferably with experience using text-as-data, and will contribute to the design of the research, collection of datasets, the innovative generation of analysis pipelines, and the production of papers for conferences and journals.
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For a list of all open positions within the University, please visit the UMass Human Resources webpage.