Description Title: Graduate Research Assistant Position Number: 0000GA11 Hiring Unit: School of Architecture/UH Community Design Center (UHCDC) Location: UH Manoa Date Posted: December 12, 2024 Closing Date: December 25, 2024 Salary Information: $24,912 (Step 11) Monthly Type: 11 Month Full Time/Part Time: Part Time, 50% FTE Temporary/Permanent: Temporary Other Conditions: Appointment for Spring 2025, pending position clearance and availability of funds. University of Hawaii Community Design Center (UHCDC) is a service-learning program and teaching practice established and led by the University of Hawaii (UH) School of Architecture, that provides a platform for applied research, planning, placemaking, and design involving UH faculty, staff, students, and partnered professionals across UH campuses, departments, and professional disciplines (https://www.uhcdc.manoa.hawaii.edu/). We partner with state, city, and county agencies, the University of Hawaii, non-profit organizations, and community groups on public interest built environment work. Our collective seeks to ensure that diverse perspectives are reflected and integrated into public serving projects. This GRA position will focus on research and design work related to Hawaii's health and housing systems, with an emphasis on community engagement, systems mapping, land development, site design, programming, architecture, and landscape design. Duties and Responsibilities: * Responsible for applied research related to urban, ecological, cultural, and architectural planning and design. * Conduct literature, policy, and historical document reviews and archival research. * Conduct site visits and compile field observations. * Synthesize site based research into site analyses. * Assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of stakeholder and community outreach, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, workshops, forums, and other forms of user or community outreach and engagement. * Assist in creating research-based designs for Proof of Concept projects for UHCDC represented in sketches, diagrams, concept drawings, models, and renderings in collaboration with a project team. * Assist with creating visuals for graphic reports. * Assist with writing and editing research reports and presentations, and support the dissemination of findings. * Presents to client, stakeholder, and community groups on research findings and design development. * Assist with managing a small project team. * Other duties as assigned. Minimum Qualifications: * Must be a degree-seeking graduate student (Masters, D.Arch, or PhD) admitted to or registered in a graduate program at UH Manoa in architecture or landscape architecture. * Must be in good academic standing and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or above and maintain full-time enrollment. * Experience working on projects related to health, mental health, housing, and justice issues. * Experience working with local communities. * Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. * Familiarity with Hawaii's health, housing and justice systems, needs, and gaps. * Must have good written and oral communication skills. * Must have a strong portfolio of work demonstrating fluency with the Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator), Rhino/CAD, Revit, Lumion, ArcGIS, or equivalent modeling, rendering, or mapping software). * Must be available to work occasional evenings and weekends when required. Desirable Qualifications: * Working knowledge of principles, practices and techniques in the community design field. * Working knowledge of local government. * Understanding of different approaches to designing for holistic health-mental, physical, spiritual, cultural. * Ability to interpret and present information and ideas clearly and accurately in writing, verbally, and by preparation of reports and other materials. * Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external organizations, groups, team leaders and members, and individuals. * Ability to participate in overnight travel to neighbor islands to conduct site visits and community engagement as part of the UHCDC team. To Apply: Send an email with the following required documents by the closing date: * a cover letter indicating how you satisfy the minimum and desirable qualifications; * current curriculum vitae; * the names and contact information (including email address) of three (3) professional references. * official transcripts (copies accepted however, official transcripts will be required upon hire) The application will be considered incomplete if materials are unreadable. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. Inquiries: Cathi Ho Schar: cathi@hawaii.edu EEO/AA, Clery Act, ADA The University of Hawai'i is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution and is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, gender identity and expression, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, genetic information, marital status, breastfeeding, income assignment for child support, arrest and court record (except as permissible under State law), sexual orientation, domestic or sexual violence victim status, national guard absence, or status as a covered veteran. For more information or inquiries regarding these policies, please refer to the following link: http://www.hawaii.edu/offices/eeo/eeo-coordinators/ Employment is contingent on satisfying employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; reference checks of previous employers; and for certain positions, criminal history record checks. 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