"Quantitative Research Associate"

ABOUT US

The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) is dedicated to solving education's greatest challenges. Through rigorous research, model training programs and partnerships with educators worldwide, we're pursuing equitable, accessible and effective learning for all. The GSE is a top-ranked school of education, known for its prestigious faculty, rigorous graduate degree programs, and its impact on the quality of education across the world. The GSE is committed to developing leaders in education research, practice and policy. Our community includes over 60 faculty, 400 students, 230 staff, 14,000 alumni and countless individuals from the local and global communities that we work with and impact.

The John W. Gardner Center was founded in 2000 as an expression of John W. Gardner’s vision for vibrant civic participation and civic life, and within that, his conviction that we have collective responsibility—as individuals, institutions, and communities—to promote and sustain civic vitality. Our multi-disciplinary team advances this vision by conducting rigorous, actionable, and capacity-building research and evaluation in partnership with agencies dedicated to improving positive and equitable community outcomes.

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Deputy Director for the John Gardner Center, the Quantitative Research Associate collaborate with Gardner Center staff and community partners to design and carry out rigorous, actionable, and capacity building research that responds to the partner’s needs and enables them to make research-informed decisions that advance their efforts to improve the lives of youth, families, and communities.

CORE DUTIES:

• Develop and carry out research designs that utilize the most robust quantitative methods possible given project parameters (e.g., timeline, budget). This includes collecting, securing, cleaning, verifying, documenting, coding, and analyzing data using a variety of methods.
• Ensure quantitative and qualitative dimensions of a study are seamlessly integrated from initial design through final reporting.
• Meet with partners on an ongoing basis to review research activities, interim findings, and evolving analyses.
• Communicate research findings to a variety of interested, invested, and impacted parties, including academic and community audiences. This may include writing and presenting interim research updates, non-technical research summaries, and peer-reviewed studies for leading peer-reviewed journals.
• Participate actively as a collaborative member of the Gardner Center team, contributing to a vibrant, generative community dedicated to community engaged scholarship in the service of ensuring the wellbeing of our most vulnerable youth, families, and communities. This includes attending regular staff meetings and retreats, supervising students and junior staff on specific projects, collaborating with colleagues across the greater Stanford community and research field, and contributing to proposal development for future projects.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education and Experience:

A master’s degree and five years of relevant experience in area of specialization relevant to this position or a combination of relevant education, training, and/or experience.

Preferred Education and Experience
A doctorate (or equivalent) in a relevant field (e.g., education, public policy, economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, public administration) is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience designing quantitative research
• Experience with quantitative data collection and analysis
• Proficiency with quantitative analysis software such as Stata and/or R
• Excellent oral, written, analytic, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, timelines, and priorities in a team environment.
• Ability to manage project budgets

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience supervising staff
• Experience effectively leading a research team
• Ability to engage, supervise, and mentor undergraduate student research assistants
• Familiarity with one or more of the systems that impact the lives of youth, families and communities in our region (e.g., the California K-12 education context, juvenile justice, youth mental health, foster care systems, youth enrichment/after school programs, housing).

This position is a 1-year fixed term appointment based on Stanford University’s main campus. Consideration will be given to a hybrid work schedule (partially onsite and offsite work), subject to operational need. Interested candidates should include a resume and cover letter describing why they are interested in this position at this stage in their career.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
• Frequent sitting.
• Occasionally stand/walk, reach/work above shoulders, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, grasp forcefully, use a telephone, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
• Rarely twist/bend/stoop/squat, kneel/crawl.

The expected pay range for this position is $139,741 - $145,000 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.