Postdoctoral Scholar Position to Engage Youth Voice in Addressing Youth Homelessness

Postdoctoral Scholar Position to Engage Youth Voice in Addressing Youth Homelessness

Innovations for Youth (i4Y), at UC Berkeley, has an opening for an in-residence postdoctoral scholar. The post-doctoral scholar’s responsibilities will be intellectual and highly-skilled contributions to the center’s ongoing projects, with a focus on building youth voice and youth-inclusion in the implementation of policy-relevant community-engaged and community partnered research. The postdoctoral scholar will collaborate with undergraduates and community-based youth with lived experience of homelessness in a larger project focused on increasing the inclusion of historically marginalized subpopulations of youth experiencing homelessness in efforts to prevent youth homelessness in the US. 

The postdoctoral scholar hired in this role will: 1) train and mentor community youth interns and undergraduates with lived expertise of homelessness to promote the inclusion of youth researchers and youth voice into collaborative projects; 2) develop youth-informed and evidence-based inclusive guidelines to prevent youth homelessness; 3) synthesize theories and knowledge to inform research questions, study design, measurement tools, and analytic procedures; and 4) engage in and/or lead the dissemination of scholarly knowledge to diverse audiences. 

Your primary mentorship will come from Professor Colette (Coco) Auerswald with whom you will meet regularly regarding ongoing projects and for career development. You will also partner with our YAAH project coordinator and have access to mentorship from other faculty within i4Y. The Center will facilitate collaborative opportunities with partner organizations and provide methodological consultation through campus resources (e.g., dLab, xLab, Ethnographic Cafe). The center will also facilitate connections to UC Berkeley initiatives related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, as well as professional development opportunities intended to promote anti-racist scholarship, productivity, and personal well-being. 

Please communicate your interest in this full-time position, by submitting your cover letter (see full flyer for specific content requests), CV, the names of 3 academic references, and the pdf of one or two publications to [email protected]. Consideration will be given on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Please note your earliest possible start date for this postdoctoral position (all degree requirements for a doctoral degree must be completed before start date) as well as your ideal start date in the first paragraph of your cover letter. 

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete UC nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see:  http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct.  Information about salary and benefits can be explored with the Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Affairs (VSPA - https://vspa.berkeley.edu/why-berkeley) office. For salary tables, see: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/oct-2023-acad-salary-scales/t23.pdf.