Research Coordinator

About the role

The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies has an outstanding opportunity for Research Coordinator to join their team. Reporting to the Director of the UW Center for Human Rights, the Research Coordinator is responsible for supporting the design and implementation of ongoing and new research in the Center.

Key Responsibilities

• Research (55%): Work with Center Director to design and implement methods of data collection and analysis. Provide leadership for organization and execution of quantitative and qualitative data collection. Lead quantitative data management, analysis, and reporting. Analyze, synthesize, and report findings.
• Project Management (25%): Supervise student researchers involved in executing methodology. Lead scheduling and facilitation of research team meetings, including virtual and in-person meetings.
• Writing (10%): Co-author briefs and reports for internal and external audiences that summarize major findings. Co-author papers and dissemination activities, including virtual and in-person presentations.
• Public Relations (10%): Work with the communication team on internal and external dissemination efforts. Attend meetings and maintain relationships with community partner organizations and advocates. Participate in dissemination activities, including virtual and in-person presentations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a social science field
• Four years of experience in research with at least two years focused on topic(s) relevant to human rights

Additional Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to equity and justice
• Excellent multicultural communication skills
• Familiarity with social science research methodology with qualitative and quantitative analysis and coding

Preferred Qualifications

• Spanish language skills
• Experience working in grassroots human rights organization or advocacy
• Familiarity with contemporary US migrant justice issues
• Familiarity with R and/or Python for basic data science tasks: summarize datasets, generate descriptive statistics, manage GitHub repositories
• Experience using software tools to process documents and files (for example, regular expressions, command line tools, advanced text editing)

About the Team

The UW Center for Human Rights is a diverse team of faculty, staff, and students committed to working for human rights and who collaborate with community-based advocacy leaders, policymakers, legal experts and activists from a range of cultural, educational, and linguistic backgrounds. The UW Center for Human Rights has a particularly prominent role in informing the public about issues relating to contemporary immigration enforcement, and the work of this role is vital to furthering that commitment.

Compensation, Benefits & Position Details

Pay Range: Minimum - $78,600.00 annual, Maximum - $82,800.00 annual
Benefits: Other Compensation - Visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/ for more information.
Shift: First Shift (United States of America)
Temporary or Regular: Regular
FTE (Full-Time Equivalent): 100.00%