Senior Researcher, Community Safety – Violence Prevention

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $126k - $154k / year

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American Institutes for Research

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1946

📚 Education

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Grant on 2017-11

Education • Healthcare Insurance • Social Impact

American Institutes for Research is dedicated to advancing evidence and improving lives through rigorous research and evaluation. The organization focuses on education, health, human services, and international initiatives, providing technical assistance and data science capabilities to address critical social issues. With a mission to generate evidence that contributes to a better and more equitable world, AIR collaborates with communities, policymakers, and researchers to support evidence-based solutions across various sectors.

📋 Description

• Manage large, complex research and evaluation projects focused on community safety, violence prevention, and related systems-change efforts. • Anticipate project risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure timely, high quality deliverables. • Ensure compliance with ethical standards, IRB requirements, and data governance policies. • Lead and contribute to proposals and capture efforts for federal, state, local, foundation, and other client opportunities related to community safety. • Develop competitive proposal strategies, including conceptual design, methodological plans, staffing, and budgets. • Identify new business opportunities and cultivate partnerships that advance the organization’s mission. • Serve as a senior methodological leader, advising teams on rigorous quantitative and/or qualitative approaches. • Lead the review, analysis, synthesis, and visualization of data using appropriate practices and techniques. • Ensure data integrity, reproducibility, and strong documentation across all analytic workflows. • Translate complex research findings—both orally and in writing—into actionable insights tailored to policymakers, practitioners, and community partners. • Manage client and stakeholder relationships with professionalism and awareness of the broader policy and practice landscape. • Cultivate external relationships with researchers, practitioners, community partners, and other leaders working across the community safety and prevention landscape. • Manage and mentor staff to build technical capacity in community safety, prevention science, research design, and client service. • Provide thought partnership and coaching to mid level researchers on research design, analysis, and dissemination. • Model inclusive leadership practices and foster a collaborative team environment.

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in criminology, sociology, psychology, public health, public policy, social work, anthropology, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 7+ years of relevant experience. • Deep knowledge of community safety, violence prevention and intervention, prevention science, and/or implementation science. • Ability to take big ideas and develop work plans and timelines. • Experience in a contract research, evaluation, policy, or applied research organization. • Experience with broad data collection methodologies (including but not limited to structured interviews, observations, survey research) and analysis activities (including but not limited to experience with quantitative and/or qualitative analytic software packages such as STATA, R, Excel, NVivo, and Access). • Proven ability to serve as a Project Director (PD) or equivalent role, including managing budgets, timelines, staff, and client relationships. • Experience building and maintaining strong relationships with broad community- and systems-based clients, and cross-sector stakeholders. • Experience with business pursuit (e.g., grant and proposal writing).

🏖️ Benefits

• AIR’s Total Rewards Program, designed to reward staff competitively and motivate them to achieve the mission.