Associate Director
Townsend Center for the Humanities
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California at Berkeley, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, invites applications for the position of Associate Director (Academic Coordinator II to begin July 1, 2004). The appointment
is for one year, renewable annually.

The Center, one of the most active in the United States, organizes a variety of lecture series, offers fellowships to graduate students, junior and tenured faculty, and sponsors research groups of different sorts
across the humanities. It also supports strategic initiatives in humanities scholarship and in innovative undergraduate education. The Center works actively with academic departments and research units on
campus. It is dedicated to fostering cross disciplinary research and teaching in the humanities and in serving as a forum for the exchange and debate of culturally and intellectually exigent issues.

The Associate Director will work closely and collaboratively with the Faculty Director. As the Center's senior staff member he or she will supervise an administrative staff of three full time and several part time employees. The Associate Director's responsibilities include overseeing event programming, administering various fellowship programs, and organizing university as well as campus outreach through a newsletter and
web site. He or she will also support and advise the Director in developing and setting program priorities, in general policy and decision making, in liaison with other units on campus, and in representing the Center on and, occasionally, off campus. The Associate Director may also be involved in fund raising and in assisting faculty in grant preparation.

Minimum qualifications: The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in the humanities or an allied field; a knowledge of current developments in the humanities; and substantial administrative experience in a university
setting. He or she will have excellent writing and communication skills; the ability to work effectively with staff, faculty and students at all levels of the university as well as with distinguished visitors; and, the
ability to exercise diplomacy and discretion in dealing with faculty and graduate students in grant selection processes.

To apply send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a writing sample (i.e. grant proposal, article, report) and three letters of reference in sealed envelopes to

Thomas W. Laqueur, Acting Director
Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall MC 2340
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

Salary range for Academic Coordinator II is $54,240-75,324. Salary will be commensurate with experience.

Applications must be submitted by April 9, and review of applications will start April 5.

A full advertisement and further information on the Townsend Center is at http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu.

The University of California is an equal opportunity Affirmative Action employer.