American Institutes for Research

Director

• Provide leadership on business development activities including leading capture teams and technical leads for proposals.
• Serve in project leadership roles for large, complex projects within the Healthcare Innovations portfolio.
• Engage directly with federal clients to maintain productive communication and address emerging needs or risks.

Managing Director – Healthcare Innovations

Research Scientist

• Manage day-to-day project operations in roles such as principal investigator, project director, or task lead.
• Lead collaborative project teams by developing timelines, coordinating staff assignments, and ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard.
• Identify research problems and design studies to address key questions in applied research contexts.
• Apply subject-matter expertise to design and implement relevant, responsive, and impactful research projects.
• Develop study designs with aligned research questions, methodologies, and analytic plans.
• Lead and contribute to research proposals for federal, state, foundation, and other clients.
• Devise and implement innovative solutions to practical challenges in applied research.
• Lead data collection and analysis efforts.
• Oversee the design and planning of qualitative and/or quantitative data collection tools, such as interview protocols, focus group guides, and surveys.
• Supervise field-based data collection activities, including interviews, observations, focus groups, and document reviews.
• Conduct or oversee data analysis using appropriate tools and techniques for various data types.
• Communicate study progress and findings clearly and effectively.
• Prepare reports, briefs, visualizations, and other materials that interpret and present research findings for clients and stakeholders.
• Represent the organization professionally in all client interactions.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with clients, partners, and stakeholders.
• Foster and maintain positive, collaborative working relationships.
• Manage client and stakeholder relationships with professionalism and awareness of the broader policy and practice landscape.
• Contribute thoughtfully and creatively to project teams.

Senior Researcher, Employment and Economic Opportunity

Communications

• Support the development and implementation of the project’s communications strategy
• Develop clear, consistent messaging that reflects project values
• Coordinate communications planning with project leadership
• Support the development of project content, including blogs, briefs, and presentations
• Work closely with evaluation, technical assistance, and project management staff
• Support dissemination of project products across appropriate channels

Communications Assistant – Part-time

Consultant

• Develop training materials, implementation measures, and protocols for monitoring and supporting education initiatives across various topics.
• Deliver training, professional development, and coaching to support educators, administrators, and leaders in implementing new programs and/or engaging in continuous improvement processes.
• Develop and contribute to reports that describe and interpret findings for clients, partners, and other relevant audiences.
• Represent the organization in interactions with state, local, and site-based staff; potential clients; and partner organizations.
• Work on collaborative project teams, including supervision of research/TA assistants and associates as a task or functional lead.
• Contribute to team efforts to develop new business opportunities including strategic planning, identification and pursuit of opportunities, and proposal development.
• Lead discrete projects or major workstreams, including planning, execution, and client coordination.

TA Consultant, Continuous Improvement Coaching

• Partner closely with a national intermediary to design and operationalize evaluation and learning frameworks aligned with their place-based partners’ strategy, capacity, and context.
• Lead the identification of metrics, data points, data sources, and data collection processes that balance rigor with feasibility.
• Develop evaluation work plans, including timelines and sequencing for data collection, data entry, analysis, reporting, and learning cycles.
• Translate evaluation needs into clear guidance for data systems, working with partner staff and technical administrators as needed.
• Support early execution of evaluation and learning activities, particularly during start‑up phases, while partners build internal capacity.
• Develop tools, templates, and protocols that enable partners to sustain evaluation and learning processes over time.
• Serve as a thought partner to practitioner staff—connecting data, evidence, and learning to real‑world decision‑making.
• Produce high‑quality deliverables such as evaluation frameworks and playbooks, data collection tools and protocols, reporting templates, learning briefs, and synthesis memos.

Senior Researcher, Place-Based Evaluation & Learning

• Set and oversee the strategic direction of CALDER as a leading voice in using data to drive K12 education policy decisions
• Lead efforts to develop new business, including grant proposals and relationship-building with funders
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with clients and potential clients who serve as policymakers at the national and state levels
• Build eminence for the work of CALDER and AIR, by maintaining visibility of the work in the media
• Design and carry out large research projects, including managing large teams to carry out those projects
• Mentor and provide feedback to staff to support growth in their ability to design and lead research projects
• Oversee the quality and technical rigor of deliverables and products
• Represent portfolio of work to internal and external audiences
• Collaborate with other AIR and LS leaders to ensure consistency in quality of work, identify and pursue cross-disciplinary opportunities, and expand organizational impact

Managing Director

Senior Researcher, Employment and Economic Opportunity – Part-Time

• Lead the design and execution of rigorous applied research or evidence-driven technical assistance projects and support project leadership across work of increased scope and complexity.
• Assume primary responsibility for writing reports and presentations that describe and interpret evidence for practitioners and policymakers.
• Design and apply appropriate qualitative and/or quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret data, maintaining AIR’s quality standards.
• Translate complex findings into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for client reports, technical memos, and presentations.
• Manage projects or major workstreams of increased scope and complexity, including planning timelines, overseeing deliverables, and managing project-level client relationships.
• Engage with stakeholders and partners through meetings, briefings, and dissemination activities.
• Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive work environment by providing guidance and feedback to team members and supporting high-quality project outcomes.

Senior Researcher, Education Systems and Policy – Part-Time

Compliance

• Contribute to development of monitoring and compliance designs, plans, and protocols.
• Review participant agreement documents, spending plans, and other documents related to model eligibility and participation requirements.
• Collaborate with data and analytic teams to connect monitoring indicators to underlying data sources.
• Guide development of data protocols, dashboard requirements, and reporting structures for monitoring deliverables.
• Contribute to proposal development involving monitoring, implementation, and operational oversight.
• Coach, mentor, and support junior staff, setting developmental goals.
• Collaborate with colleagues across teams to ensure integrated, high quality products.