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HVAC & Refrigeration Mechanic I (Building Maintenance) UMass Amherst
Installs, maintains, operates, repairs and/or initiates repairs on building systems such as pneumatic/electric, electronic, electro-mechanical controls, refrigeration, air conditioning, equipment and related heating and ventilation (HVAC) systems, and their related controllers and controlled devices. Employing the use and need of specialized testing and monitoring, diagnostic equipment; works synchronously with Control Technicians / trade personnel maintaining the building systems integrity, exercises functional supervision of other employees performing related repair and maintenance activities
Dining Hall Supervisor (Blue Wall Cafe) UMass Amherst
Supervises unit control by placement and supervision of personnel assigned to food service unit or units under the prescribed operational schedules and guidelines of said unit(s).
Controls & Refrigeration Systems Specialist (Building Automation Technician) UMass Amherst
The Controls & Refrigeration Systems Specialist (Fume Hood) position primary responsibility for the operation and maintenance of HVAC-R automation systems and other controls systems. Works with the Building Automation System (BAS) and performs calibration, diagnosis, repair, and replacement of Direct Digital Control (DDC) controls and pneumatic, electro-mechanical, and electronic components. Assists plumbers, pump mechanics, electricians, HVAC mechanics, refrigeration technicians, and other trades in the diagnosis, repair, and replacement of their system components.
Departmental Assistant- Carpenter (Summer) UMass Amherst
Perform varied carpentry tasks, including layout, framing, hanging / finishing gypsum wall board, painting, flooring installation, trim / finish carpentry, installations, doors.
Associate Director of Career Development (Hybrid Opportunity) UMass Amherst
The Associate Director of Career Development, under the guidance of the Executive Director of Employer Relations and Operations, oversees a team of Assistant Directors of Career Development. This role involves delivering intricate and comprehensive career guidance to Isenberg students across seven majors, double majors, and dual degrees, ensuring top-tier services for a diverse student body.
Departmental Assistant / UBSI Assistant Residential Supervisor UMass Amherst
The Upward Bound Summer Institute (UBSI) is a 6-week residential experience hosted at UMass Amherst for 40 – 60 high school students. The UBSI Assistant Residential Supervisor supervises volunteers and students, oversees implementation and evaluation of programming, and coordinates with staff during this intensive six-week program. This is a grant-funded position supervised by the Upward Bound Program Director.  This is a temporary, unbenefited position.
Business Communications Lecturer UMass Amherst
The Business Communications Program seeks a full-time, non-tenure track lecturer for a Fall 2025 start.
4-H Extension Educator III - Mt. Ida (Hybrid Opportunity) Mt. Ida - Newton, UMass Amherst
The 4-H Extension Educator for the Northeast Region, Middlesex and Essex Counties, located at the Mount Ida Campus, will provide programmatic leadership and management for the Massachusetts 4-H Youth Development Programs. Develop and implement educational programs and resources for youth ages 5-18 while providing support and oversight for collaborating adult volunteers and partner organizations.
Postdoctoral Research Associate 100% - CBIKS UMass Amherst
This position is with the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), a National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center. CBIKS is an interdisciplinary center that examines how to effectively and ethically braid Western and Indigenous science research, education, and practice related to the urgent and interconnected challenges of climate change, protections of cultural places, and food sovereignty. CBIKS activities include studying and promoting wise practices in community-based research with Indigenous communities, from relationship development and the research development process through storywork and knowledge mobilization. CBIKS activities include promoting the respectful braiding of Indigenous science with Western science, and supporting community-based research agendas and collaborative research design. This position assists CBIKS thematic research groups in conducting “science of science” research within the CBIKS network. The eight research theme areas at CBIKS are: ethics, data sovereignty, relationality & research development, fieldwork & braiding knowledges, formal & informal science education, storywork & knowledge mobilization, training scientists, and policy & government agencies. This is an on-site position at CBIKS Central on the UMass Amherst campus in Amherst, MA with the possibility of some remote work. This is a one-year position with a possibility of renewal for a second year. Postdocs are expected to engage in at least two of the eight research themes. Applicants should note areas of interest and experience in their cover letter.
Associate Professor (tenured) Public History/Associate Director of Slavery North Initiative UMass Amherst
The Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenured position in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. The appointment will be at the Associate Professor level beginning Fall 2025. For its initial three years (with potential for renewal) the position will be affiliated with Slavery North, an initiative that seeks to advance social justice by centering the cultures, experiences, lives, and resistance of enslaved peoples in Canada and the US North while bolstering public understanding of the social and cultural impacts of trans-Atlantic slavery and its legacies in the North, including how that history manifests in anti-Black racism today.
Community-Engaged Research Coordinator UMass Amherst
The Community-Engaged Research Coordinator works with the PI’s in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) conducting community-engaged research aimed at eliminating health inequities and addressing the harmful effects of violence and discrimination on marginalized communities. This role is to support this research as well as serve as liaison between the community, the researching staff, and local collaborators in Holyoke, MA & Springfield, MA.
Post Doc - HPP CHE UMass Amherst
Dr. Kathryn Derose and Dr. Daniel López-Cevallos of the UMass Amherst Department of Health Promotion and Policy are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to begin Summer or Fall of 2025. This is a full time, 12-month, annually renewable position with a maximum duration of 2 years. The Postdoctoral Fellow will contribute to research on community-partnered interventions aimed at addressing health disparities both in the U.S. and/or in Latin America; and secondary data analysis of cardiovascular health among military populations in the U.S. Current topics and populations of focus include faith-based organizations and health promotion; food security and nutrition interventions to improve treatment adherence among people with HIV in the Dominican Republic; and stress and cardiovascular health among military populations. Responsibilities include writing scientific papers, quantitative and qualitative data collection and/or analysis, literature reviews, community and study partners’ engagement, and grant writing. Overall goals and specific activities will be determined collaboratively between the post-doc and Drs. Derose and López-Cevallos but can include: first-authored and co-authored journal articles; development of project leadership skills; NIH and DoD grant submissions; quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods training; community-based participatory research, and formalized mentorship.
Archives and Manuscript Librarian (Temporary Position) (Hybrid Opportunity) UMass Amherst
The Archives and Manuscript Librarian (Archivist) will work with colleagues in the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA) to provide comprehensive support in the department’s ongoing efforts to curate and preserve its collections and to provide outstanding access to its holdings. The Archivist will assist patrons in learning and research; supervise use of the collections in SCUA’s reading room, train and supervise student assistants, work with classes to promote integration of primary sources into university curriculum, and implement professional standards in care, arrangement, and description of collections.
Social & Racial Justice Curator (Hybrid Opportunity) UMass Amherst
The Social and Racial Justice Curator will engage the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA)’s significant holdings of racial justice-related historical collections. This includes the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, Horace Mann Bond Papers, Gloria Clark Papers, the Black Feminist Archive, Frankie Ziths Papers (Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army materials), papers and many more. The Curator will be responsible for developing programming around these collections, engaging the UMass community and SCUA’s national audience with the collections and their content, and building on SCUA’s strong foundation of donors, contributors, and community connections.
Departmental Assistant (Transportation) UMass Amherst
To provide safe, excellent, and courteous bus service to the public.
Maintainer I (Berkshire Dining Commons) UMass Amherst
Performs general custodial duties in connection with the cleaning and maintenance of a building or of an assigned area within a building in the Auxiliary Services Department.  Works as a member of a team cleaning custodial program which includes housekeeping, cleaning, moving furniture and trash removal in assigned Auxiliary Services buildings.
Assistant Professor - Foods for Precision Nutrition - Food Sciences/IALS UMass Amherst
The Department of Food Science and the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an academic year, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of Foods for Precision Nutrition. We are seeking dynamic and innovative individuals with demonstrable ability for translational research in precision nutrition, including, but not limited to: • Developing novel technologies to improve nutrition and health outcomes. • Developing foods and/or novel food materials that influence gene-nutrient interactions and health outcomes. • Modulating gut microbiota through diet for enhanced health. • Identifying biomarkers for nutrient requirements and nutritional status across diverse populations. • Exploring the role of genetic variation in response to food components, dietary patterns and nutrient metabolism using genetic/genomic and data science approaches. • Applying precision nutrition to address health disparities, food insecurity, and sustainability.
Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor UMass Amherst
The Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor for Slavery North will actively participate in both the scholarly and social environment of the center. Visiting Research Professors, with support of Slavery North leadership, will conduct independent research and create original works in one or more of the five mandate areas of Slavery North which include 1) Canadian Slavery, (2) slavery in the US North, (3) the comparative study of slavery in Canada, the US North, and other northern or temperate regions, (4) the study of the inter-connectedness of slavery in Canada and the US North with Caribbean Slavery, and (5) Black-Indigenous relations in Canadian Slavery or US North Slavery. Furthermore, the research must center on the enslaved and/or adopt an anti-colonial, de-colonial, post-colonial, and/or anti-racist methodology/approach which challenges the nature of European and Euro-American imperialism and colonialism and interrogates the racist logic of the institution of Transatlantic Slavery.
Associate/Full - Marieb Endowed Professorship - Joint Colleges of Nursing / Engineering UMass Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a full-time (9-month), tenure-track faculty that will be jointly appointed with the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing and the College of Engineering. This position offers the unique opportunity to join a strong team of collaborators between these colleges in the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation as well as part of the larger University-wide Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) and its Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM). Eligible candidates for this position may be appointed to a Marieb endowed professorship. In addition, the successful candidate is expected to take a leadership role in large, collaborative, sponsored research projects.
Assistant Professor - Immunology UMass Amherst
The Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a full-time, nine-month tenure-track faculty position, to begin September 1, 2025, in Immunology.

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