Graduate Assistant (0000GA11) - UHCDC

University of Hawaii System•Honolulu, HI

43d•$2,336

About The Position

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 architectural design work related to Hawaii's food infrastructure with an emphasis on community engagement, systems mapping, site, architecture, and landscape design.

Requirements

Must be a degree-seeking graduate student (Masters or PhD) admitted to or registered in a graduate program at UH Manoa in architecture.
Must be in good academic standing and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or above and maintain full-time enrollment.
Experience working on architectural projects related to food and agricultural production.
Experience working with local communities and government.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
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.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of principles, practices and techniques in the community design field.
Working knowledge of local government.
Multi-disciplinary architecture and landscape architecture skills to address all aspects of programming, architectural, and landscape design.
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.

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.
Other duties as assigned.