Project Support Associate, Higher Education in Prison – Part-Time

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🏄 California, Illinois, +3 more states – Remote

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American Institutes for Research

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1946

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📚 Education

💰 Grant on 2017-11

Healthcare • Consulting • Education

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

• Provide administrative, research, logistical, and production support for AIR’s higher education in prison technical assistance portfolio • Coordinate logistics for meetings, recurring virtual convenings, and working sessions, including scheduling, registration, attendance tracking, and follow-up • Prepare agendas, pre-reading, supporting documents, notes, minutes, and next steps • Capture meeting notes and transcripts and produce concise summaries, decision records, and action-item lists • Support literature reviews, environmental scans, resource inventories, and reference-list compilation • Route draft materials through quality assurance and review processes and perform quality-control reviews • Track deliverables, assignments, timelines, and milestones across concurrent workstreams; monitor progress and flag schedule risks • Maintain processes, procedures, tracking tools, project documentation, records, shared file structures, and version control • Support onboarding of participants and partners and assist project leadership with communications • Provide administrative support to senior staff and project leaders, including calendar scheduling and meeting coordination • Monitor and report progress, deliverable status, and feedback; participate in team meetings and project planning • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• HS diploma and 2+ years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's degree • Office or project management experience, preferably supporting technical assistance, research, or convening work • Understanding of project management principles and practices, including tracking deliverables across multiple concurrent workstreams • Experience coordinating virtual convenings, working groups, advisory bodies, or communities of practice • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), Microsoft Teams, and Windows-based work environments • Experience with Airtable and SharePoint • Familiarity with virtual convening platforms, including registration, polling, and transcription features • Ability to synthesize discussion into clear, concise notes, summaries, and action items • Strong accuracy in tracking review cycles and version control across collaboratively developed materials • Excellent proofreading, language, analytic, writing, organizational, and time management skills • Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information • Ability to work collaboratively across multiple external partner organizations and adapt communication to varied audiences • Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and adapt to changing deadlines • Customer service-oriented mindset • Currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis • Employment-based visa sponsorship is not available • Qualified candidates may need to meet certain residency requirements depending on project work • Interest in or familiarity with higher education in prison, correctional education, postsecondary access, or reentry preferred; direct expertise is not required • Selected candidates must adhere to child safeguarding standards and undergo reference and background checks

🏖️ Benefits

• AIR’s Total Rewards Program • Flexible work location: remotely within the United States or from a U.S. office location • Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer • Reasonable accommodation for disabilities during the employment process • Reference and background checks • Drug-free work environment