Senior Research Coordinator Project

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The TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago develops, tests, and implements evidence-based interventions designed to promote very young children’s cognitive and social-emotional development, with a priority placed on that of children living in poverty. TMW Center interventions are designed to be overlaid onto existing health, education, and social service systems working at scale in a given community in order to meet families where they already are.

The TMW Center has a robust research and development strategy that includes further development and testing of TMW interventions; harnessing technology to support behavior change, intervention engagement, and analysis; and furthering strategies to engage adult caregivers (parents, early educators and others) in the TMW Center’s interventions across the health, early learning, and social service sectors.

The TMW Center develops, tests, and implements evidence-based interventions designed to promote very young children’s cognitive and social-emotional development, with a priority placed on that of children living in poverty. TMW Center interventions are designed to be overlaid onto existing health, education, and social service systems working at scale in a given community in order to meet families where they already are.

The TMW Center has a robust research and development strategy that includes further development and testing of TMW interventions; harnessing technology to support behavior change, intervention engagement, and analysis; and furthering strategies to engage adult caregivers (parents, early educators and others) in the TMW Center’s interventions across the health, early learning, and social service sectors.

The TMW Center is partnering with a nonprofit child development agency to conduct field research and implementation in California infant/toddler child care and preschool settings. The project will use a novel technology and professional development model to support teachers and demonstrate how teachers’ language inputs in birth-to-3 child care settings lead to positive child outcomes. This work will generate learnings and inform a classroom implementation and professional development model.

This role will be based in California, with travel throughout the San Francisco Bay Area (with most work in the first year in Palo Alto) and potential occasional travel to other states (Illinois and Connecticut). The Senior Research Coordinator will report to the Senior Project Manager and shall provide on-the-ground management, implementation, and research support. The Senior Research Coordinator will work closely with California-based infant/toddler childcare and preschool providers as well as TMW Center research and curriculum staff.

The Senior Research Coordinator will be responsible for managing the on-the-ground activities, including implementation and technical support for study participants, data collection (including administering assessments with children enrolled in the study), and operational and logistical coordination of various study activities.

As the primary on-the-ground point of contact for the partner organization, the Senior Research Coordinator will build positive relationships with childcare centers, classroom teachers, families and partner organization staff to ensure strong communication and a successful partnership with the TMW Center.

Significant field work consisting primarily of regular site visits to child care centers and study participants will be required. Typically, other work will be completed from home. At times almost 90% of time may be spent working in the field. Site visits will be required at…