Research Project Manager

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The Annenberg Institute is Brown University’s education research institute. Our vibrant community includes Brown University faculty, postdoctoral research associates, staff, students, and multiple partners in Rhode Island and across the US. We partner with education leaders and global scholars to connect people, evidence, and practices to build toward a more effective and equitable education system that enables all students to thrive academically and in other ways.

Our knowledge initiatives catalyze conversations across the research landscape, synthesizing what we know and mobilizing practitioners, policymakers, and researchers toward collaborative impact.

The Research Project Manager will support a body of work related to teacher professional learning and growth as part of the Annenberg Institute’s Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) research team, led by Annenberg faculty John Papay and Nathaniel Schwartz. RPPL is a partnership that brings together professional learning (PL) organizations, district and state education systems, and researchers from the Annenberg Institute to strengthen how the field learns about and improves teacher professional learning.

RPPL’s central goal is to rethink how we learn about teacher PL, shifting from studies that explore whether a specific program works to a broader learning agenda designed to identify how PL design features and the enabling conditions of PL improve teachers’ instructional practice and, as a result, students’ classroom experiences, well-being, and academic growth. RPPL focuses on supporting the learning of teachers who work with students from historically marginalized groups.

The Research Project Manager supports the overall direction and execution of the team’s evaluation and research projects. In addition to the Annenberg team, this position establishes and stewards relationships with external research partners as well as district and state-level education agency stakeholders. Responsibilities include helping to design implementation and research plans, collecting data, coordinating the research team’s work, communicating with stakeholders, conducting quantitative analyses, managing timelines, organizing meetings, moving the project forward, and managing other research associates as needed.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree and minimum of 5 years relevant experience. Master's Degree in Education, Public Policy or other social science field preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A strong quantitative background.
• Experience managing large-scale projects with multiple work streams.
• Experience with software to analyze quantitative data.
• Experience with any combination of:
  State level education policy and practice, Measurement, Teacher Professional learning.

• Demonstrates an aptitude for digging into systems and data by learning and working through complex processes and systems in order to improve efficiency.
• Demonstrates ability to quickly become fluent in multiple…