Seeking Director for Acclaimed UC Berkeley J-School Documentary Program

Seeking applicants who have significant professional achievement in the field of documentary. The successful candidate must hold an outstanding reputation in one or more of the following areas: directing, producing, shooting, reporting, writing, editing, or other components of nonfiction production. The preferred candidate will bring to the job a strong vision for leading one of the country’s finest documentary programs into the future. He or she will be a journalist first, being versed in the skills, principles and ethics underpinning the profession, as well as the history and evolution of documentary film, and cutting edge technologies shaping the field.

The successful candidate will teach at the graduate level in the School of Journalism, working with students who produce their own documentaries to fulfill their Master of Journalism project requirements and who upon graduation seek careers in the field.

The selected candidate will oversee a documentary curriculum in which the craft of reporting, writing, and narrative storytelling remain central to training. The candidate will teach the core courses in the documentary sequence. The School expects the candidate selected to remain engaged with the field, continuing to produce documentaries and participating in critical discourse surrounding it. As a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism, the candidate will be expected to work with other faculty members in positioning the school to embrace the opportunities presented by the digital revolution.

For more information and to apply online, please click here. The deadline to submit applications is Jan. 15, 2014.