Research Program Specialist - School of Social Work

Duties Responsibilities

• Develop, Implement, and Manage Evaluation Plans
• Develops materials for evaluating violence prevention programs.
• Conducts annual reviews of evidence-based violence prevention programs.
• Collaborates with team members to develop dissemination reports or presentations of annual reviews of evidence-based violence prevention plans.
• Develops and monitors project timelines for meeting deliverables.

• Uses REDCap or a similar data collection management system to manage and track data collection among violence prevention program providers.
• Facilitate data collection efforts (e.g., focus groups, interviews) with violence prevention program providers.
• Reviews and interprets data analysis results and communicates data findings to a variety of target audiences.
• Forms mutually beneficial partnerships with funders and state-level administrators around issues related to data collection, interpretation, and utilization of findings.
• Manages Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols for research projects related to violence prevention evaluation or prevention planning efforts.

• Forms mutually beneficial partnerships with violence prevention providers around the issues related to evaluation design, data collection, and interpretation and utilization of evaluation findings.
• Develops documentation and manuals for using REDCap or other data collection management systems.
• Ongoing contact with violence prevention providers to provide technical assistance on data collection and evaluation activities.
• Develops and delivers adult professional development activities to promote practical collection and use of data collection and evaluation materials using adult education and theories underlying instructional design.

• Collaborates with team members to meet research goals, including supervising research assistants and interns.
• Works collaboratively with other team members.
• Partners with team members to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Other duties and responsibilities as appropriate.