Senior Scientist

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Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP), is pleased to announce a career opportunity as a Senior Scientist. Interested in bringing your expertise and experience and working with an invested, energetic team to grow it to the next level? This may be the position for you! Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP) is a consulting company that provides technical assistance and evaluation to improve health and human services systems so that everyone, particularly populations experiencing the greatest disadvantages, receive better care and have better health outcomes.

We are looking for candidates who bring skills and a passion for making a difference in the world.

• Lead and write technical proposals
• Provide scientific and management leadership for a portfolio of large, complex projects.
• Conceptualize, design and implement large research and evaluation projects.
• Build, mentor, and lead cohesive, multidisciplinary, and client-focused teams, applying best practices in project management and methods with an emphasis on quality and fiscal responsibility.
• Develop and lead new business opportunities in area of expertise.
• Lead project meetings and other activities, assign responsibilities, supervise staff, resolve problems, and track budgets and timelines.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses.
• Prepare reports, presentations, literature reviews and other work products.
• Occasional travel may be required.

• Ph.D.

• Five or more years demonstrated experience leading and writing evaluation-focused technical contract proposals is required.
• Expertise in winning, designing, and leading research or evaluation projects in one of the following areas:
  • Substance use prevention, treatment and policy
  • Rural health
  • Criminal justice and corrections
• Evidence of ability to win, manage, and monitor government contracts, grants, and/or cooperative agreements is required.
• Prior experience working on SAMHSA, CMS, HRSA, CDC, NIJ or other federal agency projects is highly valued.
• Prior experience collecting and analyzing SAMHSA data tools including SUPRT, NOMS and IPP.
• Experience with quantitative analysis software (Stata strongly preferred), data collection tools (e.g., REDCap), qualitative analysis software (e.g., Dedoose) MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and citation management software.

Interacting with multiple stakeholders. Work is broad in scope covering one or more complicated areas. A high degree of design and analytic ability and creative thinking is required to devise new, non-standard approaches to highly intricate, technically complex problems. Hybrid working modality and flexible working hours.

• Attentive to details and excellent design, planning, and organization skills
• Can communicate effectively with federal and state leadership, organizational management, and community stakeholders
• Skills, temperament, and interest in mentoring and training R&E Center staff
• The ability to work effectively with diverse groups and in highly complex and demanding situations; and
• Enthusiastic and curious about new methods and technologies, eager to learn, and active in taking on initiatives and new responsibilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisor, technical staff, partners, and clients.

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