Research Manager, Polaris Research Initiative Planning Grant

Position:
Research Manager, Polaris Research Initiative Planning Grant

Department:
Continuing Education (Polaris)

Full-time or Part-time: FT Exempt, One-Year Term Position

Hours per week: 35

Months per year: 12

Salary Range: $79, (commensurate with education,experience, and professional credentials)

Work Schedule:

Remote / Hybrid; PTS Office Hours

Reports to:

Executive Director, Polaris Young Adult Christian Leadership Initiative

The Polaris Young Adult Christian Leadership Initiative at Princeton Theological Seminary cultivates the faith, flourishing, and leadership formation of young adult

Christian leaders across the United States while shaping the intellectual, institutional, and organizationallandscape around young adult Christian faith formation and leadership development. The Research Manager isa one-year, grant-funded position that operationalizes the Polaris Research Initiative Planning Grant, working closely with the Polaris Senior Research team (Research Scholar, Polaris Executive Director,and Associate Dean of Continuing Education) to plan and execute the planning year and researchproposal.

This position manages invitations and logistics for a national network of scholars, researchers, and practitioners; coordinates a January 2027 convening and design sprint; organizes subsequent onlinesub-groups; and coordinates the writing and editorial teams that will shape Polaris's next major research initiative proposal. The Manager serves as an integral member of the research design and writing team. Reporting to the Executive Director, this role is essential to maintaining momentum and coherence across an interdisciplinary group of scholars, practitioners, and institutional stakeholders throughout theone-year planning grant period.

– 30% oftime

• Manage invitations and attendance for the January 2027 researchconvening and design sprint, coordinating with the Research Scholar and Polaris senior leadership to reach interdisciplinary scholars, researchers, and practitioners across sociology of religion, theology and practical theology, anthropology, psychology, ethics, and complementaryfields.
• Network and build rapport with researchers across disciplines onbehalf of Polaris at Princeton Seminary.
• Collaborate with the Events & Hospitality team to organizelogistics for the four-day, in-person convening and design sprint in Princeton, including travel,lodging, meeting space, materials, and on-site hospitality for a large and diverse group ofinvitees.
• Prepare background materials, documents, and pre-conveningresources that equip participants to engage the convening's core questions.
• Plan and host all research gatherings across the planning grantyear, both online and in-person, extending invitations and managing logistics from the Januarydesign sprint through the submission of the research grant proposal.
• Coordinate the writing retreat and participate fully as a memberof the writing team. Collaborate with internal and external editorial review teams to solicit and integrate feedback.
• Manage deadlines and deliverables.

– 25% oftime

• Organize and support the online sub-groups that begin during the January convening and continue after, ensuring selected Research Partners are equipped to facilitate their groups.
• Ensure preliminary researchers and sub-groups have the resources,scheduling support, and follow-up needed to complete their individual and sharedtasks.
• Support the planning year's qualitative studies, coordinating with the contracted research vendor on data capture and synthesis from the research convening anddesign sprint.
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