The National Center on Family Homelessness

Job Announcement: Research Associate
The National Center on Family Homelessness

The National Center on Family Homelessness (The National Center) is a national non-profit organization created in 1988 to help homeless children and their families. The organization works to end homelessness by designing, piloting, and evaluating innovative programs and services that provide long term solutions, and sharing our knowledge with service providers, policy makers, and the public.

NCFH’s Department of Research and Evaluation is seeking a researcher to join our team. Duties for this position include:

• Overseeing day to day management of one or more research/evaluations projects.
• Assisting in designing and implementation a national program evaluation.
• Communicating with government and foundation funders regarding project status.
• Preparing data collection instruments including site visit protocols, focus group materials, and possibly quantitative interview protocols.
• Conducting site visits and other data collection activities including qualitative interviews with senior state and federal policy officials.
• Qualitative coding and data analysis.
• Quantitative data analysis using SAS, SPSS, or similar.
• Working with grantee sites to provide technical assistance, facilitate cross-site information exchange, and ensure all project requirements are met.
• Writing project reports.
• Participating in development of academic journal articles.
• Assisting in the development and writing of grant proposals.

Qualifications:
• M.A. or higher in Social Work, Public Policy, Public Health, Psychology, Sociology or other related discipline.
• Experience in both process- and outcome-related research or program evaluation.
• Qualitative research and analysis skills, including experience in conducting focus groups.
• Quantitative research and analysis skills, including experience with statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, or similar.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Excellent organization and management skills for managing research/evaluation projects.
• Ability to work as part of a team and to collaboratively develop consensus with project partners (including research partners, local implementers, and federal funders).
• Ability to travel.

To apply please contact:

Lillian Ballkishun
Lillian.ballkishun@familyhomelessness.org

UIC’s Learning Sciences Research Institute

Post–Doc Research Opportunities at UIC’s Learning Sciences Research Institute

Areas include: Mathematics, Science, and Literacy

Project Foci: Cognition, Instruction & Assessment

The Learning Sciences Research Institute at UIC is seeking qualified candidates for post-doctoral research positions on several major funded projects in the disciplinary areas of mathematics (2 positions), science (1-2 positions), and literacy (2-3 positions). All positions are for a minimum of 2 years and involve working with a team of faculty, research staff, and graduate students on projects involving research and development related to teaching and learning. The grade spans of the projects vary from middle school through high school and undergraduate education. Positions are available for appointment starting July 1, 2010.

Candidates must have PhD in Learning Sciences, Psychology, Education or a related field. Applicants for the math or science positions could have a PhD in mathematics or science with a research specialization in assessment, measurement, or learning and instruction within a mathematics, science or engineering discipline. Applicants for the literacy positions could have expertise in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in middle school or high school literacy, social studies/history education, or science education; assessment of content learning: qualitative or quantitative methodologies.

Individuals interested in these positions should send an email to: Susan Goldman (literacy positions) sgoldman@uic.edu; James Pellegrino (mathematics positions) pellegjw@uic.edu; and Lou DiBello (science positions) ldibello@uic.edu . In the email please indicate your educational background and training and areas of specific expertise. Attach a recent vita and provide information on 2-3 potential references, including their contact information. Please indicate if you will be attending ICLS 2010 in Chicago at the end of June. Interviews of qualified candidates by members of the project leadership teams may be arranged at ICLS 2010.

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

The Hong Kong Institute of Education
The appointee will be responsible for conducting research projects, assisting in publication works, writing for publications, organizing international and local conferences and workshops, supervising doctoral students, and performing other research-related duties as assigned. The appointment will be tenable up to 30 June 2012, with a possibility of renewal subject to mutual agreement.

Applicants should possess a doctoral degree in psychometrics, educational measurement and assessment, quantitative methods or a relevant discipline. Preference will be given to those applicants with expertise in Rasch measurement, item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, multi-level modeling, structural equation modeling, and longitudinal data analysis.

For enquiry, please contact Professor Wang Wen-chung at wcwang@ied.edu.hk.
Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term gratuity-bearing contract. Fringe benefits include leave, medical and dental benefits.

Application forms can be obtained from (a) http://www.ied.edu.hk/hro/applyfor.htm; (b) the Human Resources Office, 3/F, Administration Building, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong; or (c) Town Centre, Level 2, The Long Beach, 8 Hoi Fai Road, Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The completed application form, together with full curriculum vitae, should be sent to the Human Resources Office by email to hro@ied.edu.hk or by fax to (852) 2948 6005 or by post on or before 19 June 2010. Please quote the reference number of the position in the application and mark “Strictly Confidential – Job Application” on the envelope.
All applications will be treated in strict confidence. Only those who are shortlisted will be contacted.