Research Associate, JEDSI

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We are seeking a Research Associate to carry out and supervise some of the activities of foundation grants. The grants fund the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative (JEDSI) Lab at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE). The Research Associate will focus on the portion of the JEDSI that conducts and disseminates research on food insecurity; green infrastructure; institutional diversity;

environmental grantmaking; and environmental attitudes, perceptions and behaviors; and environmental justice. For about half a century, activists and scholars have identified and tried to mitigate the disproportionate amounts of environmental hazards people of color and low-income communities face. Despite these efforts, environmental injustices such as exposure to toxic wastes, heavy pollution burdens, lack of access to healthy and affordable foods, exorbitant utility rates and high levels of utility shutoffs, and climate disasters are commonplace in poor and people of color communities.

JEDSI seeks to identify interconnected actions, impacts, processes, and outcomes that give rise to and perpetuate environmental injustices. JEDSI also identifies initiatives, amenities, and resources that can help to reduce inequities and foster community resilience.

The Principal Investigator is Dorceta

E. Taylor of YSE.

The Research Associate will identify and assess environmental injustices in people of color and low-income communities. They will collaborate with research scientists and program managers in the JEDSI Lab to research and publish articles and reports on food insecurity, green infrastructure, institutional diversity, environmental grantmaking, and related environmental justice issues. The research associate help identify and compile resources to help document and archive environmental inequalities and achievements.

The Research Associate will collaborate with lab staff, supervise lab students, help organize the New Horizons in Conservation convenings, and track and manage budgets. This is a one-year fixed-duration position.

• Carries out research within the scope of the established study protocol. Adheres to all human subjects regulations defined by Yale University and the federal government pertaining to research studies.
• Develop criteria for admission of study subjects based on the goals and objectives of the project.
• Determines potential sources of funding and prospective partnerships.
• Evaluate the feasibility of accepting potential projects through analysis of staffing needs, resource requirements, financial costs, and the group's current planned capacity.
• Negotiate contracts and/or changes with funders, consultants, and service providers.
• Develop original IRB submissions. Based on knowledge of science and research goals, collaborates with investigators on major revisions and contributes to scientific protocols. Plans and implements changes.
• Develop forms, questionnaires, and the application of research techniques; write procedures manuals for data collection and coding.
• Responsible for the documentation and transmission of study data. Ensures that report forms are accurately documented and completed in a timely manner at each site location.
• Works independently to develop, manage, and organize databases and multi-site studies. Serves as a primary coordinator between University, non-Yale collaborators, IRB, and funding sources.
• Performs spatial mapping and descriptive and multivariate statistical data analyses using computer software.
• Designs and implements quality control measures to ensure accurate collection and processing of data.
• Contributes to in-depth, original thought and relevance to written reports and the writing of abstracts and manuscripts.
• Help to organize the New Horizons in Conservation and other research…