Project Coordinator; Bilingual - Spanish and English Center Child & Family Policy, Sanford Sch

Project Coordinator (Bilingual - Spanish and English) Center for Child & Family Policy, Sanford Sch

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid (On-Site and Remote mix)

Requisition Number: 270415

Regular or Temporary:
Regular

Location:

Durham, NC, US, 27710

Date:
Jul 1, 2026

Duke University:

Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools.

With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.

Be You. Be Bold. Choose Duke.

Be You.

At Duke, we celebrate individuality and the unique perspectives that each member of our community brings. As the Project Coordinator, you’ll support two longitudinal evaluations of innovative interventions designed to improve the health and well-being of children and their families. You’ll work in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams and community partners to advance impactful research that strengthens families and supports early childhood development.

You’ll contribute to two key initiatives:

Although numerous evidence-based early childhood home visiting intervention programs have been implemented at small scale in community settings to reduce maltreatment and promote early relational health, no home visiting intervention has demonstrated population impact to lower child maltreatment rates. Most programs take a long-term, intensive approach serving self-selected high-risk families (secondary prevention), while only a few programs utilize a brief universal approach to support all families prior to any maltreatment exposure (primary prevention).

Implemented in isolation, both approaches face significant barriers to population impact. To address these barriers while leveraging the strengths of each approach, this study will draw families from the entire population of births in a community using an empirically supported light-touch, universal program (Family Connects; FC) to screen and recruit eligible families for an intensive, longer-term home visiting program (Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up;

ABC). The goal is to determine the impact of this collaborative approach on parental sensitivity, parental functioning, child functioning, and child maltreatment.

During some of the most critical years of child development, prenatally through age three, families spend significant time and resources navigating a fragmented system of care. Some families can get needed resources for their children, while others cannot for a variety of reasons. Community Navigation charts a new vision that will offer all families universal screening to connect them to the right resources at the right time through a series of universal, light-touch engagements beginning prenatally and continuing through age 5.

The goal is to engage all pregnant persons, learn about their strengths and needs for support, and, when needs are identified, connect families to matched community resources for longer-term support.

In collaboration with colleagues in Guilford County, the Center for Child and Family Policy (CCFP) is overseeing a randomized control trial involving 800 Durham County families to assess the implementation and impact of prenatal and postnatal Community Navigation. The goal is to determine the efficacy of the model in improving multiple domains of child and family well-being, including connections to community resources and services, parenting and parent mental health, child social-emotional and behavioral development, and kindergarten readiness.

Be Bold.

Make an impact by supporting rigorous research and advancing innovative solutions for children and families.

The Project Coordinator will support impact evaluation for both studies in…