Project Manager, Research Scientist

For optimal experience, internal candidates should use their USNH username and password when applying for open positions. This position will support the work of the Carsey School’s Center for Social Policy in Practice. The candidate will be responsible for planning, developing, designing, scheduling, and implementing activities related to the research activities of a major social service evaluation and research project. Duties will include acting as the Center liaison to nonprofit partners participating in the evaluation, focusing especially on coordinating the provision of technical assistance from the Center to those partners.

Specific duties include light research duties, like identifying and organizing background materials, literature, and survey instruments, and the writing of reports, as well as traditional project management around material management, deadline tracking, scheduling, and working with team leaders to plan a project trajectory. It is imperative that the candidate for this role be well organized. The right candidate would also be excited to work on a set of social service-related projects with real-world, real-time impact.

The possibility of converting to a full-time position eventually may exist for the right candidate. Work schedule flexible; potential for hybrid or work considered for the right candidate.

5 Chenell Drive, Suite 301, Concord, NH 03301

• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in appropriate academic discipline and three years of experience related to project management. Additional years of related experience may be substituted for a formal degree.

• Knowledge of child and family social service systems and/or policy landscape
• Knowledge of Northern New England
• Research or evaluation experience
• Knowledge of grant- and grant-funded research processes
• Skills in knowledge translation, data visualization, or visual design

FTE

FTE 0.5

The University System of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access/Affirmative Action employer. The University System is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity and inclusiveness across our campus communities and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. The University System prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or marital status.

The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs.

The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.

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