Humanities Program Manager

Humanities Program Manager

The Humanities Program Manager will be housed at the Tishman Center for Social Justice, the Environment, and the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. The Humanities Program Manager role is devoted to advancing the Environmental Justice (EJ) + Humanities Hub (the Hub), a joint project of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) and the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS). The Hub is led by Kyle Whyte and Sara Soderstrom. Your work will connect with a new partnership between the Tishman Center, the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, and the Nichols Arboretum that is being crystallized by the new Hub. You will lead key aspects of educational development and evaluation of the Hub. You will design a mentorship program for students in the Hub and foster educational programming that connects students with external partnerships devoted to environmental justice. Your educational work - especially in relationship to external partnerships - will be buttressed by the networks, resources, existing projects, and lands, places, and spaces of the Tishman Center and Matthaei Botanical Gardens. For evaluation, you will set up a formative and summative evaluation of the overall Hub, including the completion of a final assessment of the Hub at the end of the Coordinator's 4th year (the 5th year of the Hub). You will report to Hub Principal Investigator (PI) Kyle Whyte, who is also the Faculty Director of the Tishman Center. You will collaborate directly with Sara Soderstrom, Director of the PitE Program, Michelle Martinez, Inaugural Director of the Tishman Center, and Tony Kolenic, Director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

This is a four (4) year term limited appointment with the possibility of renewal depending on funding availability and performance.

The University of Michigan's EJ + Humanities Hub unlocks humanistic research, education, mentorship, and social impact towards ending environment-based insecurities and environmental injustices associated with climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. The Hub, launched in December 2024, will include :

• Partnerships with community-based organizations and governments.
• Postdoctoral fellowships, graduate and undergraduate student research assistantships, course and curriculum development, and an Environmental Justice and Humanities minor and a graduate certificate.
• A new tenure system professorship at a senior rank and a new lecturer position (LEC III) with leadership effort.
• The training of 50 graduate and undergraduate students in the Hub.
• Engagement with faculty to adopt new teaching approaches to EJ and the humanities.
• The advancement of the careers of humanities graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in EJ who will serve in the Hub.
• A state of the art curriculum with extensive national and global reach.
• 'Needle-moving' impacts in communities affected by injustice toward their aspirations to achieve EJ via the community-based projects funded by the Hub.
• Publications and media about the education, mentorship, curriculum, fundraising materials, and organizing methods of the Hub, for the sake of motivation the sustainability of the Hub at SEAS and LSA and its potential replication (in differentiated form) at other institutions of higher education.

In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, The University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself and your family, and plan for a secure future. Benefits include :

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Salary will be determined based on experience.

Application Deadline : Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. This job may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended. Applications will be reviewed as received throughout the posting period and continue until the position is filled.

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Job Opening ID : 270992

Working Title : Humanities Program Manager

Job Title : Program Manager

Work Location : Ann Arbor Campus Ann Arbor, MI

Modes of Work : Onsite

Full / Part Time : Full-Time

Regular / Temporary : Regular

FLSA Status : Exempt

Organizational Group : School Nat Res Envir

Department : Sch for Environ and Sustain

Posting Begin / End Date : 11 / 18 / 2025 - 11 / 25 / 2025

Career Interest : Administration

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