Post-Doctoral Fellowship – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Community Campus Partnership (CCP) program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is a campus-wide initiative to forge long-term partnerships with economically distressed communities in North Carolina. The CCP invites candidates to apply for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship to be based at the UNC School of Government (SOG) and to begin on or about September 1, 2009. The CCP Fellow will be the principal investigator on the research design and implementation of an evaluation plan to assess the impacts of the CCP pilot project. The fellow will work with the Project Director, local community-based organizations and leading scholars from UNC to develop a multi-disciplinary range of engaged research and service-learning projects that are consistent with community priorities. There is an expectation for primary and co-authorship of original research. Successful candidates will have interest in the scholarship of engagement and training/experience in multi-level program evaluation. The fellow may also have a substantive interest in community economic development, education, public health, public policy, economics, planning, sociology, etc. The position requires a Ph.D. in public administration, planning, public policy, public health, education, social work, sociology, applied economics, community psychology, or equivalent.

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