Assistant or Associate Professors: Black Faculty Positions, Quantitative and Environmental Science

The College of Science on the College of British Columbia (UBC) seeks candidates who self-identify as Black for 2 tenure-stream assistant or affiliate professors positions with an anticipated begin date of 1 July 2024. Whereas appointments are anticipated to be on the degree of assistant professor, preliminary appointment at affiliate professor could be thought of for people possessing distinctive {qualifications}. The 2 hires are the primary of 5 that may kind a Black college cluster in quantitative and environmental science, becoming a member of six present UBC college members.  We search two distinctive candidates for this cluster rent initiative: one in quantitative science and one in environmental science. Consideration could also be given to promising candidates very close to completion of a doctorate diploma by the point of appointment. This chance kinds a part of UBC’s Black College Cohort Hiring Initiative .

UBC’s campuses are positioned on the normal, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Syilx (Okanagan) Peoples and of the Coast Salish Peoples, together with the territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations.

Given current strengths, UBC is well-positioned to develop into a pacesetter on the interface of quantitative and environmental sciences, which explicitly features a range of ideas and views. Within the face of mounting world environmental challenges, reminiscent of local weather change and biodiversity loss, there’s a want for sturdy scholarship to elucidate and handle complicated socio-environmental programs. Latest advances in expertise and strategies for gathering numerous forms of environmental knowledge present a vital alternative to doc and detect modifications to land cowl, air, water, soil, and biodiversity, in addition to interactions and suggestions amongst these environmental options. Quantitative approaches from statistics, pc science, and arithmetic might be leveraged and additional developed with a view to course of, combine, and analyze these numerous knowledge streams in each area and time. Critically, the appliance of huge knowledge and quantitative approaches to environmental challenges necessitates a consideration of environmental justice, and the social implications of those approaches. Traditionally and at current, each knowledge science and environmental insurance policies have perpetuated hurt to marginalized communities. It’s due to this fact crucial to incorporate a range of views into this scholarship, and the lived experiences of Black students place them nicely to contribute to simply and equitable functions of “huge knowledge” to environmental analysis questions.

The Black College Cluster in Quantitative and Environmental Science will present distinctive buildings that help the continued success of students as soon as they arrive at UBC, together with: making a peer-mentorship group program to facilitate connections amongst new hires in addition to between incoming and present Black students; offering analysis help within the type of co-supervised Black postdoctoral fellows; guaranteeing a graduate stipend for every incoming analysis college to help the expansion of their lab or analysis program; and making obtainable assets on transitioning to and navigating life at UBC and in Vancouver as Black folks.

The positions require a minimal of a PhD or equal in arithmetic, pc science, statistics, ecology, botany, forestry, zoology, oceanography, fisheries, biodiversity conservation, environmental economics, atmospheric sciences, chemistry or associated disciplines.  You have to be a inventive, modern scientist, with demonstrated analysis accomplishments and proof of dedication to efficient educating.  You’ll be anticipated to take care of a dynamic externally funded analysis program, and to take energetic roles in educating and the supervision of trainees (undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers).

The candidate in Quantitative Science ought to have broad experience in areas together with however not restricted to:

• Knowledge-driven mathematical and computational modeling in areas reminiscent of ecology, optimization and optimum management, useful resource administration, bio-economics, evolutionary, adaptive and sport principle, social dilemmas, and construction populations;
• Computational science and its functions;
• Excessive-performance computing and its functions,
• Mannequin choice and parameter inference.

The candidate in Environmental Science ought to have broad experience in areas together with however not restricted to:

• Elementary and/or utilized analysis in areas reminiscent of ecology, zoology, botany, soil sciences, oceans and fisheries, forestry and pure useful resource administration, land and meals programs, atmospheric sciences, ecosystem modeling, environmental chemistry, social-ecological programs, biodiversity conservation, and power and local weather change;
• The appliance of knowledge science and statistical modelling instruments to handle basic questions in environmental sciences.

Candidates needn’t fulfil all the necessities above, a broad spectrum of experience throughout disciplines could be fascinating. Interdisciplinary candidates are inspired to use. Candidates with pursuits in facets of each Quantitative and Environmental Science are notably sought. Candidates can be appointed in a UBC College of Science division or analysis institute applicable to their disciplinary experience. Joint appointments throughout departments/institutes may even be potential.  For extra info on the College of Science departments and institutes see: https://science.ubc.ca/departments and hyperlinks therein.

Utility Course of

Pursuant to Part 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, this search can be restricted to certified Black students. We welcome functions from Black students who might also establish as Indigenous (First Nation, Métis, Inuit) Peoples, multi-racial individuals, individuals with disabilities, girls, and/or members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Candidates are invited to self-identify by means of the Applicant Variety Survey , which takes roughly two minutes to finish. All questions are voluntary, with an possibility to say no to reply. Candidates who want to be thought of for this initiative should self establish as ‘Black’ to be thought of eligible. All info collected by the Fairness & Inclusion Workplace (EIO) will stay confidential and any reported knowledge can be in mixture kind shared with the Search Committee co-chairs to trace intersectional range and help and equitable and meritorious search course of.

Functions ought to be submitted by means of the Tutorial Jobs On-line . candidates should submit the entire following paperwork:

• present CV together with record of publications;
• analysis assertion (4 pages single-spaced) describing your work to this point and future plans together with any interdisciplinary analysis associated to quantitative and/or environmental analysis.
• educating assertion (2 pages); 
• UBC aspires to advertise inclusive excellence by supporting and recognizing efforts to advance fairness, range and inclusion in addition to decolonization (EDID) by means of the educational and analysis ecosystem. Present a short (2 web page) assertion describing present and future commitments or pursuits associated to EDID. Your feedback could relate to lived/residing expertise, skilled work or observe, tutorial and analysis actions, and/or community-engagement.  
• Candidates to those positions are requested to finish this fairness survey  as a part of the appliance, and candidates should self-identify as a Black particular person to be thought of for these positions. As a result of the search is restricted to these self-identifying as Black, candidates should additionally present their title on the survey to be thought of.

All certified candidates are inspired to use; nevertheless, Canadian residents and everlasting residents can be given precedence for the place. To adjust to the Authorities of Canada’s reporting necessities, the College gathers details about candidates’ standing as both a everlasting resident of Canada or Canadian citizen. Candidates needn’t establish nation of origin or present citizenship; nevertheless, all functions should embrace one of many following statements:

•         Sure, I’m a citizen or everlasting resident of Canada
•         No, I’m not a citizen or everlasting resident of Canada

Deadline for software is Nov 30, 2023.

Any inquiries could also be addressed to Susan Allen, [email protected] .

Profession Interruptions

UBC acknowledges that sure circumstances could trigger profession interruptions that legitimately have an effect on an applicant’s document of analysis achievement. We encourage candidates to notice of their functions whether or not they want consideration given to the influence of any such circumstances as a result of well being, household, or different reputable causes with a view to enable for a good evaluation of their analysis productiveness.

Twin Profession Inquiries

UBC is dedicated to supporting candidates inside a twin profession family. Inquiries about spousal/accomplice employment could also be directed to the Workplace of the Provost & Vice President Tutorial at [email protected] .

Dedication to Accessibility and Lodging

The College is dedicated to creating and sustaining an accessible work surroundings for all members of its workforce. Inside this hiring course of we’ll make efforts to create an accessible course of for all candidates (together with however not restricted to folks with disabilities). Confidential lodging can be found on request by contacting Kate Blackburn, [email protected] .

If in case you have any questions relating to lodging or accessibility through the recruitment and hiring course of or kind extra info and help, please go to UBC’s Middle For Office Accessibility web site or contact the Centre at [email protected] .

Job candidates requiring lodging to take part within the hiring course of ought to contact Kate Blackburn, [email protected] .