The College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for the position of Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. The successful candidate will have an established record of teaching, research, and service with commitment to interdisciplinary aspects of planning. Salary is competitive; start date is negotiable. Further information about the position may be found at http://www.faa.illinois.edu/ To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by November 14, 2008 and must include a letter of intent, complete vitae, and contact information of three references.  Materials may be sent electronically to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or mailed to DURP Head Search Committee, 608 E. Lorado Taft Drive #100, Champaign, IL 61820.  AA/EOE

The position of a Chair is offered by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

For more information please see file below:

Job Offer - Chair at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (54 kB)

The UCSB, Department of Geography, has a new job offer. For more details please see attached file below.

Geography of Globalization_Assistant Professor (23.45 kB)

The Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD) of the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal is offering two postdoc positions (Economics and Policy Evaluation).

The positions are described in the two attached files below.

Job Fellowship - Economic, management, related field (27.5 kB)

Job Fellowship - Public Policy Evaluation (27.5 kB)

Three economic positions are to fill and the positions will be located in New York, NY. All contact info and directions on how to apply are listed in the descriptions below.

Econometrician (23 kB)

Economic Analyst (22 kB)

Chief Economist (24.5 kB)

Job Opportunity: Economist, Regional Planning and Research Division

 Job Opportunity: Economist, Regional Planning and Research Division (28.5 kB)

Who May be Considered
Applications will be accepted from all sources.

• Provides advice and guidance on the development of Commission and state research programs and projects utilizing statistical procedures, economic feasibility studies, and prior research in order to determine the validity of proposed research programs and advises on the attainability of goals and objectives. Assists Commission and state officials in the redesign of research proposals, including recommending alternative research methods and evaluating the qualifications of potential contractors.
• Analyzes economic and social data and provides the Commission with advice regarding the impact of economic and social trends in the Appalachian Region and on the Commission’s programs.
• Assists the Commission with the design and content of information prepared for public consumption concerning the economic aspects of the Commission’s regional development programs and projects, insuring that the information is valid and understandable to the general public.
• Recognizes and determines those areas where investigations, studies, research, and demonstration projects are desired. Prepares a research plan for ARC and supervises the implementation of the plan through staff research and study efforts or contracts with consultants.
• Attends Commission meetings as a resource person for research and economic development programs, responding to inquiries and questions as they relate to all phases of the ARC research programs related to economic development.

• Success in completing a federal background investigation;
• United States citizenship;
• A Ph.D. in economics or closely related field.

• Five years of experience in directing and conducting research in the economic development field;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills;
• Strong knowledge of the principles of regional and economic development;
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data and translate conclusions into useful program guidance;
• Ability to work independently as well as in teams.

Salary and Benefits
Pay will be commensurate with experience. This is not a federal position; however, if a federal employee is selected for this position and transfers without a break in service of more than three calendar days, he/she is entitled to continue his/her retirement, life and health insurance benefits, and leave entitlements. A non-federal selectee will be offered a comparable benefits package.

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Director of Center for Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing of the National University of Rwanda (CGIS-NUR)

 
The of Center for Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing of the National University of Rwanda (CGIS-NUR) serves as a national and regional training and research centre of excellence in the fields of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. The CGIS-NUR has approximately 25 full time or affiliated academic staff and 8 administrative/technical staff members. Due to retirement of its director, NUR is advertising the position to be filled as of September 1, 2008 or as soon as possible. This research and training centre is supervised by the Vice Rector of Academic Affairs, and its director operates on a faculty dean level.

The Director of CGIS-NUR has the overall responsibility for the centre’s activities including outreach at local, national, and regional levels, recruitment of staff, human resource development, planning, budgeting, reporting and chairing the various CGIS bodies. The Director is supported by a Deputy Director in charge of coordinating research and training activities of the centre.

The incumbent candidate should have a PhD with specialized training in GIS/RS or a related application field, enjoy international standing, have long term experience in research/project and institutional management as well as a high level of interpersonal skills and abilities to work with a team of professionals. Fluency in English or French and working knowledge of the other language is required.

Interested candidates should send a letter of application, a CV and relevant notified career documents to the Rector of the National University of Rwanda, P. O. Box 117, Huye, Rwanda. Copies of the above mentioned documents have to be received by August 4, 2008 at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . For more information please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or +250 08606208.

 CGIS_Director (44.92 kB) 

Done at Butare, July 14, 2008

The Vice Rector for Administration and Finance NUR

The Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has an opening for a professor of public policy with substantive interests in regional or international economic development. Examples of specific areas of related interest might include public finance and tax policy, entrepreneurship incentives, innovation policy, or science and technology policy. The successful candidate will play a significant role in the university’s teaching, research, and engagement activities in this policy area, and will also be considered for a senior program leadership role in the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, a unit of the Kenan-Flagler Business School whose mission includes these research areas in partnership with the department (http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/KI/).

Candidates for this position must have an established record of research and publication, teaching, and service appropriate for a full professorship at a major research university. Both U.S. and international research applications are welcome; disciplinary background is not as important as the candidate’s analytic rigor and knowledge of the public policy academic enterprise. All candidates must be interested in teaching at both undergraduate and doctoral levels and in supervising Ph.D. dissertations and undergraduate honors theses.

The Department of Public Policy is within the College of Arts and Sciences. It confers A.B. and Ph.D. degrees and works closely with other Ph.D.-granting social science departments in the College, as well as departments and schools offering professional degrees, notably City and Regional Planning, Public Administration, Business, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Social Work, Public Health, and Law. The department has a full-time faculty of eleven, fourteen adjunct faculty, and an enrollment of approximately 20 doctoral students and 200 undergraduate majors ( http://www.unc.edu/depts/pubpol). An additional source of opportunities is the newly created Carolina Institute for Public Policy, established in association with the department to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations on policy-relevant research and to promote opportunities for faculty and students to interact with policymakers and other public leaders.

Interested applicants should send a detailed letter of interest and curriculum vitae to the address below. We will ask for the names of outside references at the appropriate time from those applicants we wish to pursue further. Evaluation of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Questions or preliminary inquiries may be directed to Richard N. L. Andrews, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and chair of the department ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 919-843-5011).

Please send applications to Senior Faculty Search, Department of Public Policy, CB#3435 Abernethy Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3435, or email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; if by email, a signed original of the application letter is also requested. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

The U.S. Mission here was recently contacted by a Minister of the Government of Lesotho (GoL).  The Minister requested assistance with city planning expertise – something sorely lacking here!  Would it be possible for RSAL to provide any type of assistance, whether it be a guest speaker, educational resources, or anything else?