
Researcher, Human and Community Development
American Institutes for Research
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $96,100 - $128,100 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Manage day-to-day project work and operations and maintain positive and collaborative relationships.
- Support tasks and projects using evidence-based frameworks, rigorous quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods designs.
- Provide input on appropriate planning, research methods, analysis, and reporting.
- Support and collaborate with partners in ways that build their research and evaluation capacity.
- Demonstrate military competence and sensitivity in all activities and interactions with colleagues, partners, and project participants.
- Conceptualize problems and identify questions in prevention research and evaluation and collaborate in designing solutions to address them.
- Contribute to the development of study designs, research questions, indicators, survey questionnaires, or interview protocols that align to analytic plans.
- Analyze, interpret, and report on complex qualitative and/or quantitative data using appropriate methods.
- Write reports and other documents that are clear, concise, and contribute to the field.
- Adapt prevention science best practices to meet communities where they are.
- Support the development of tools that connect the dots between prevention science and military environments.
- Communicate clearly with partners and represent AIR in a professional manner.
- Write reports to describe and interpret findings for clients.
Requirements
- PhD in related subject area (Economics, Statistics, Public Policy, Public Health, Human Development, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, or related field), or master’s degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
- Experience contributing to rigorous research and evaluation studies that address public health issues, including preventing violence.
- Experience working with military populations.
- Experience working with military data and other data related to health and human serving systems.
- Experience with data collection activities from the field using a variety of methodologies and data collection techniques such as interviews, focus groups, observations, and/or survey research.
- Experience managing project and/or task teams on research and evaluation projects is preferred, but not required.
- Experience in business development is preferred, but not required.
- Experience with Python is preferred, but not required.
Benefits
- AIR’s Total Rewards Program designed to reward staff competitively and motivate them to achieve critical mission.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data analysisqualitative researchquantitative researchmixed methodssurvey researchinterview protocolsdata collectionreport writingPythonstudy design
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingmilitary competencesensitivityorganizational skillscapacity buildingclear writingprofessionalismadaptability
Certifications
PhDmaster's degree