Field Team Associate

Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills.

Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward.

Field Team Associates support research initiatives by conducting interviews, administering social-emotional learning (SEL) assessments, and collecting high-quality data to support program evaluation efforts. Depending on project assignment, field research associates may conduct interviews with individuals closely connected to program participants, administer benchmark assessments, and administer SEL assessments. This role requires interpersonal skills, high trainability, and strict adherence to MAP’s legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements for the collection, handling, and storage of human subjects research data.

• Conduct interviews with individuals closely connected to program participants using
• Administer baseline and follow-up assessments in accordance with established
• Accurately record responses and assessment results while maintaining a high standard of data quality, integrity, and confidentiality, as established by the research protocols.
• Attend all training sessions and required project meetings.
• Arrive to all scheduled on-site (within NYC) data collection slots on time.
• Establish rapport with participants while maintaining professionalism and neutrality.
• Strictly adhere to MAP’s data collection, confidentiality, storage, and security requirements, ensuring compliance with all legal, ethical, and regulatory obligations related to human subjects research.
• Perform other related research support duties as assigned.

• Must reside in or near New York City.
• Must hold, or be able to obtain promptly, a CITI Human Subjects Research certification.
• Interest in research and MAP’s mission.
• Ability to travel to assigned research sites within New York City at least once per month.
• Ability to build rapport with diverse individuals while maintaining objectivity.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to accurately follow research protocols.
• Experience working with children is strongly preferred, particularly in underserved populations.
• Experience conducting interviews or administering surveys for research is preferred.
• Experience administering academic or behavioral assessments is preferred.
• Semi or full fluency in Spanish is a bonus.
• Coursework in psychology, social psychology, education, human development, urban studies, anthropology, or a related field is a plus.
• Proficiency with tablets , computers or web based data collection platforms is preferred.