Associate Director of Research – Reshaping Prosecution
| Company | Vera Institute of Justice |
|---|---|
| Location | New Orleans, LA, USA, Washington, DC, USA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| Salary | $129000 – $134000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | PhD |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Advanced graduate training, such as a Ph.D. or equivalent, as well as 9+ years of work experience or equivalent applied experience
- Several years of experience supervising interdisciplinary research teams
- Advanced project management, technical, methodological, and analytic skills
- Experience supervising and working with mixed methods research and/or researchers; ability to supervise and advise on sophisticated quantitative analyses
- Experience conducting applied policy research; subject matter expertise including understanding how the criminal legal system operates
- Ability to support and build advocacy efforts and external stakeholder relationships
- Commitment to race equity
Responsibilities
- Represent research on the initiative leadership team
- Work with the initiative director to develop strategies that incorporate research; participate in initiative’s theory of change planning; monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL); and other activities related to the impact pipeline
- Serve as a member of the Vera Research Leadership Team
- Ensure that researchers across the organization receive appropriate training, mentoring, and technical assistance
- Supervise, support and mentor the initiative research team
- Partner with initiative director and the research leadership team to develop staffing plans and lead recruitment and hiring
- Cultivate relationships with partner organizations
- Supervise all research work on an initiative project or team
- Partner with Advocacy and Communications staff to develop coordinated strategies that leverage research
- Build and maintain expertise in prosecution-related research and keep abreast of emerging trends and gaps
- Sign off on evidence-based messaging and research within the initiative, and oversee development, writing, and editing of research publications and evidence-based messaging and products in support of initiative goals, including rapid response work
- Act as an internal and external spokesperson/representative of the work to a range of audiences including government actors, system-impacted communities, and the general public
- Review, develop, and present IRB applications and ensure that research is conducted to the highest ethical standards, serving as Principal Investigator on research projects
- Mentor early career researchers in human subjects/IRB protocols
- Lead the initiative’s data collection and analysis
- Lead/train/supervise others on data collection and analysis, overseeing all aspects of data management and analysis within the initiative
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supervising or conducting community-based research, research with people who have experienced trauma, and/or research with people who have been detained or incarcerated
- Experience partnering with advocacy and communications professionals
- Experience with administrative data, ideally in the criminal legal system