Associate Director of Student Programming- Human Rights Center - School of Law

Position overview

Position title : Associate Director

Salary range :

The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See the following table(s) for the current salary scale(s) for this position : https : / / www.ucop.edu / academic-personnel-programs / _files / 2025-26 / policy-covered-july-2025-scales / t36-i.pdf . The current base salary range for this position is $64,228- $122,272. "Off-scale" salaries, which yield compensation that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions.

Percent time : 100%

Anticipated start : Spring 2026

Position duration :

One-year term position, with the possibility of renewal.

Application Window

Open date : January 21, 2026

Next review date : Monday, Feb 23, 2026 at 11 : 59pm (Pacific Time)

Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date : Monday, Feb 23, 2026 at 11 : 59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

Position description

The mission of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law is to "pursue justice through science, technology and law," which we do in three ways : 1) conducting investigations into alleged human rights violations and war crimes, 2) creating standards and guidelines for investigators that are informed by our research and experience, and 3) teaching and training students and practitioners to those standards. This third portion of our mission includes teaching students from multiple disciplines from across UC Berkeley in our Investigations Lab (both undergraduate and graduate) and mentoring partner organizations.

Our award-winning Lab equips the next generation of lawyers, journalists, advocates, and researchers with critical digital investigation skills to tackle human rights challenges in the 21st century. To date, hundreds of students have been trained in the Lab to conduct hands-on digital investigations related to human rights violations around the world. Our students have come from more than two dozen majors and minors and have collectively spoken more than 70 languages since the Lab's founding in 2016. They are trained with resilience at the core of their investigative approach and recognize the mental and emotional impact of this work. We are working hard to create a pipeline of researchers who are prepared with technical skills, collaborative mindset, and resiliency tools to lead human rights investigations. Our Lab takes on up to a dozen investigations each academic year. Our students are divided into peer-led teams to tackle those investigations with our professional partners.

Duties

The Academic Coordinator will help to shape the academic content of the Lab's outputs-including being responsible for instructional design, academic year calendars, etc.-under the supervision of the center's co-faculty director and lab founder, Alexa Koenig.

Project and Research Management

• Oversee five to six student research projects related to journalism, law, and human rights.
• Manage Investigations Lab design, implementation, and coordination across multiple disciplines and partners (students, UC faculty, and international organizations).
• Ensure effective instructional design, program structure, and annual academic planning.

Curriculum and Pedagogical Design

Student and Faculty Coordination

Data and Administrative Management

Event and Partnership Coordination

In addition, this position may in time oversee a student fellowship program.

Division : https : / / humanrights.berkeley.edu /

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

(required at time of application)

Additional qualifications

(required at time of start)

Preferred qualifications

Application Requirements

Document requirements

Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

Cover Letter

Writing Sample - Appropriate styles would be legal writing, class papers, or published articles - either academic or for a general audience. The purpose of the sample is to illustrate the writer's capacity to write clearly, concisely and persuasively. It should reflect the author's strongest work and usually ranges from 5 to 15 pages in length.

Reference requirements

Apply link :

https : / / aprecruit.berkeley.edu / JPF05220

Help contact : academicpositions@law.berkeley.edu

About UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service, consistent with UC Regents Policy 4400 and University of California Academic Personnel policy (APM 210 1-d ). These values are embedded in our Principles of Community , which reflect our passion for critical inquiry, debate, discovery and innovation, and our deep commitment to contributing to a better world. Every member of the UC Berkeley community has a role in sustaining a safe, caring and humane environment in which these values can thrive.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity 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 more information, please refer to the University of California's Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy and the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy .

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and / or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Unless stated otherwise, unambiguously, in the position description, this position does not include sponsorship of a new consular H-1B visa petition that would require payment of the $100,000 supplemental fee.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

Job location

Berkeley, CA