The Human Exploitation and Resilience Program (HERP) at the New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management invites applications for a Research Scholar, working with Clinical Associate Professor Meredith Dank.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Research management (10%)
• Early stage: Help design project methodologies, organize grant proposal tasks, construct data collection tools, and design data monitoring procedures.
• Middle stage: Work with data collection teams to adapt data evaluation and monitoring systems to local needs. Conduct routine data quality checks.
• Late stage: Organize endline report writing amongst full research teams, conduct final quantitative analyses, and contribute to final qualitative analyses.
• Quantitative data analysis (30%)
• Conduct quantitative analyses, including, but not limited to: data cleaning, missing data analysis, multilevel regression modeling, survival analyses, data visualization, and spatial modeling.
• Monitoring, evaluation, and data systems management (30%)
• Conduct ongoing data monitoring and analyses of collected data to assess data quality and identify gaps
• Develop instruments to collect data needed by field teams.
• Implement measures to improve data quality and strengthen data collection processes.
• Design, adapt, and maintain digital data collection tools and back-end architecture for end-to-end M&E systems
• Aggregate and synthesize data for programmatic reporting, including preparing datasets and summaries for donor reporting and internal learning.
• Grant proposal writing (10%)
• Contributing to grant proposal writing for both government and foundation funders. This will involve contributing to project design, literature reviews, analytic procedures, and helping to organize writing tasks for team members.
• Academic manuscript writing (10%)
• Contribute to academic manuscripts for journal publication, including conducting analyses, writing papers, and reviewing papers.
• Dissemination of project findings to a variety of audiences (10%)
• Develop deliverables with project results for a variety of audiences, including infographics for public use, briefs for practitioner use, and manuscripts for academic use

Qualifications

RequiredSkills and Competencies:
• Technical: Experience conducting moderate to complex quantitative analyses with a proficiency in either R or Python.
• Previous academic and grant writing experience
• Highly detail oriented with strong organizational skills
• Experience with end-to-end data management systems
• Communication: Experience working with a variety of stakeholders, including funders, government agencies, NGOs, researchers, practitioners, etc.
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
• Minimum of a master's degree in criminal justice, public health, sociology, social work, international development or an equivalent social science required.

The successful candidate will be exposed to a range of research projects as part of a diverse team of research scientists, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and industry and agency partners. The projects are intended to be both impactful and advance research on forced labor, human trafficking, gender based violance and justice system inequality. The salary range for this position will be $85,000 - $95,000 annually.