The College of Law has a job opening for an EDR Program Associate Director / Senior Mediator. Applications are due by end of the day on May 05, 2017. Applications must be submitted on-line. Apply here: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/61527.
Qualifications
- A JD degree.
- A minimum of five (5) years of professional experience serving as a neutral mediator or facilitator for projects involving complex legal / public policy / political issues.
- Experience with environmental law and policy, and awareness of natural resource issues in the Western United States.
- Initiative and vision.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated track record of securing funding from diverse academic and non-academic sources preferred.
- Must be a self-starter who can work independently with minimal supervision.
- Must also be a team player who will work well with the Director, and who is capable of coordinating activities with various entities in a large academic institution (including the Wallace Stegner Center, the College of Law, and other partners across campus), as well as with off-campus partners.
Job description
Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment
Environmental Dispute Resolution Program Associate Director / Senior Mediator
Position Summary
The Environmental Dispute Resolution (EDR) Program is hiring an Associate Director / Senior Mediator who will be responsible for supporting existing program activities and developing new projects. We seek someone with legal expertise, as well as significant experience in conflict resolution and consensus building. This is a full-time position, but we are willing to discuss 0.5 FTE or 0.75 FTE appointments.
The EDR Program was established in 2012 as part of the Wallace Stegner Center at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. The EDR Program promotes collaboration, mediation, and other dispute resolution processes as a means to address contemporary environmental and natural resource (ENR) conflicts, with particular focus on Utah and the Mountain West. The program encompasses four general categories of activity: (1) academic instruction; (2) public education; (3) research and analysis; and (4) process design, facilitation and mediation services. More information about the EDR Program’s mission and activities is available at the program’s website.
The EDR Program was originally funded through a generous seed grant from the Alternative Visions Fund. The Program is now partially supported by a Stegner Center endowment, but the Program leadership team is responsible for continued fundraising to keep the program viable.
The Associate Director / Senior Mediator will have the following responsibilities, with additional opportunities possible according to the applicant’s interests and background:
- Capacity Building: Develop curriculum and provide instructional support for workshops and other training programs. This can also include guest-speaking in law school and other graduate-level courses across campus. If interested and qualified, there may be opportunities to teach Environmental Conflict Resolution or Conflict Management at the law school.
- Public Education: Develop content for public education materials, including coordinating the EDR Blog. Develop new approaches for educating key constituencies about the benefits of collaboration and mediation as ways for resolving ENR conflicts. Develop new, and maintain existing, EDR Program relationships with public, government and other stakeholders to facilitate alternative dispute resolution solutions on ENR issues.
- Third Party Neutral Services: Provide process design, mediation, facilitation, conflict coaching, and/or other third party neutral services on request from ENR stakeholders. This includes work on projects the EDR Program is already involved in, and developing new projects that demonstrate best practices, pilot new approaches, and/or provide skills development opportunities for clinical law students.
- Convening and Situation Assessments: Identify opportunities to conduct situation assessments or convene dialogues to proactively address issues of local, regional, and national importance by bringing together stakeholders of differing ideologies to identify common ground.
- Program Development: Work with the Director on program development activities, such as newsletters, conference presentations, fundraising, donor relations, and grant writing.
- Research: Engage in research and writing, to the extent the applicant is interested and has time available. Development of a case study library highlighting best practices and lessons learned would be very useful to the program.
Qualifications
- A JD degree.
- A minimum of five (5) years of professional experience serving as a neutral mediator or facilitator for projects involving complex legal / public policy / political issues.
- Experience with environmental law and policy, and awareness of natural resource issues in the Western United States.
- Initiative and vision.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated track record of securing funding from diverse academic and non-academic sources preferred.
- Must be a self-starter who can work independently with minimal supervision.
- Must also be a team player who will work well with the Director, and who is capable of coordinating activities with various entities in a large academic institution (including the Wallace Stegner Center, the College of Law, and other partners across campus), as well as with off-campus partners.
Salary
Commensurate with experience, including full University benefits.
Starting Date
Application review will begin when the position is publicly announced and will continue until the position is filled. Ideally, the new EDR Program Associate Director / Senior Mediator will start no later than August 2017.
Application Submission Requirements
- On-line application. https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/61527
- Substantive cover letter describing relevant expertise and experience, and explaining how selection of this applicant will further the EDR Program’s mission.
- Resume including educational background, professional experience with dates, publications, and relevant trainings (both as trainer and trainee).
- List of projects, including a description of the applicant’s role and how it demonstrates the applicant’s ability to fulfill the responsibilities outlined for the EDR Program Associate Director / Senior Mediator position.
- Three references, preferably including a current or former supervisor, as well as a client and/or stakeholder for whom you provided third party neutral services.
- Relevant writing sample.