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
