Full TimeENNorth America
Target Openings: 1
Begin Date: 01/01/21
End Date: 04/30/21
Appt. Period: Term
Standard Hours: 4 hours/week
Approver: Melissa Eljamal
Hiring Team: Melissa Eljamal, Samantha McCoigCorrie Thomason
Contact Information: Orgstudies.GSI.Search@umich.edu
Application Deadline: October 30, 2020
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Course Description:
ORGSTUDY 204. Nonprofits (Prof. Jeremy Levine)
What do universities, hospitals, churches, labor unions. parks, anti-poverty agencies, museums, environmental agencies. human rights advocates, and transportation departments all have in common? They can all be classified as not-for-profit organizations.
As you can see, nonprofits take a variety of forms and are involved with many aspects of our daily lives. This course is an introduction to the nonprofit sector, the umbrella for the diverse terms above. It focuses primarily on the history and structure of the nonprofit sector in the United States; contemporary debates concerning the function and impact of the nonprofit sector; and key differences between the U.S. nonprofit sector and those in other countries.
Additionally, nonprofits are riddled with tensions, many of which we will discuss in this class. For example, do nonprofits enliven or undermine democracy? Are market-based management structures appropriate for organizations producing a public good? Who should nonprofits be “accountable” to, and how should effectiveness be measured? While learning about these tensions, you will learn to challenge and question the sector’s taken-for-granted practices.
Anticipated Class Schedule: M/W 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Estimated effort for the positions: 1 GSI position (.087 FTE)
Benefits: Tuition waiver and stipend as provided in UM/GEO Agreement
Decision-Making Process:
All applications will be submitted for review to the faculty member teaching the course. After review of applications and possible interviews, the decisions will be made by the professor of the course.
Selection Process:
Selection criteria include strong interest in the subject matter, merit, experience, other training or experience which may be required and explicit to the teaching goals/requirements of a specific course, applicant's previous receipt of financial aid, availability of funding, and relevance to graduate training. Estimated date for offers to be extended: week of December 14. Applicants may request the status of their application from the program at any time.
Responsibilities:
Work Experience and Education:
Candidate must be in a U-M graduate program for at least one year prior to Winter 2021. Graduate student in good standing with a background in sociology, psychology, or other social sciences field with coursework in organizational theory and/or organizational behavior. Social Science (e.g. Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, or Economics) or related professional school (e.g. Business, Policy, Social Work, Public Health, Education, Law) graduate student preferred. PhD student preferred, but not required. Candidates with a background in business or law may also be considered. Applicants with experience in project based or laboratory classes; project or consulting based work experience will be preferred but such experience is not necessary.
Desired Qualifications:
Someone with experience with field research in organizations; experience and comfort working with focal organizations of different types (eg. businesses, non-profits, etc.); work experience in for-profit or non-profit consulting, management, or education. Someone who enjoys teaching, who likes students, and who has good interpersonal and communication skills.
Required Qualifications:
In compliance with Appendix A of the 2017-2020 UM/GEO agreement (see pp. 106-109 of the UM/GEO agreement), the College of LSA requires that potential GSIs whose undergraduate medium of instruction is not English be evaluated for effective proficiency in classroom English. Effective proficiency includes fluent and intelligible speech, the ability to understand the English spoken by the undergraduate students, the ability to produce organized, coherent explanations, and the ability to contribute to the development of interactions with their students. As part of the training and testing, graduate students are required to demonstrate their effective proficiency by taking the GSI-OET conducted by independent evaluators from the Testing Division at the English Language Institute and a faculty representative from the department in which the prospective GSI will be teaching.
How to Apply:
Applications must be submitted through the Interfolio.
*If you experience problems uploading your file due to size limitations, you may email the additional documents to orgstudies.gsi.search@umich.edu.
Application Deadline: 10/30/20
Applicants must include with this application the following materials:
1) a cover letter addressing interest and qualifications for the position
2) a resume or curriculum vita
3) teaching history (list course and department)
4) any available teaching evaluations
5) a list of your financial support history at the University (how many terms of financial support
received to date by term/year, department, description, appointment fraction)
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