The Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) is hiring two full-time lecturers to start in September 2014. In addition to research and/or professional experience and a doctorate in public policy, public affairs or a related discipline, successful candidates will also have experience teaching in at least one of the following areas: public management, nonprofit management, program evaluation, public organizations, conflict resolution, personnel management, and/or public finance and budgeting.
CPPA is the hub of interdisciplinary public policy research, teaching, and engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Our faculty teach and conduct rigorous research to realize social change and solve problems for the common good. Our graduate students are mid-career professionals, recent college graduates and everyone in between. They come from around the globe to study public policy and management in small classes in an area famous for its political activity and social activism.
In 2011, CPPA was the recipient of the first-ever Social Equity Award from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. The award was created to honor a public administration, affairs or policy program with a comprehensive approach to integrating social equity into its academic and practical work.
Read the full job posting here. Review of applications begins March 17.