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Monday, October 29, 2012

Associate Researcher Position Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Chapin Hall is seeking an Associate Researcher to contribute to its work with public and private human services agencies. The goal of this work is to increase the capacity of these entities to manage multiple layers of their operations. This includes working with public and private administrative data resources to support agencies’ efforts to effectively plan, implement, monitor and evaluate changes to procedures, programs, and policies. The Associate Researcher will get involved in several project components that may include developing techniques in partnership with public child welfare agencies and other interested parties for organizing, processing, summarizing and presenting complex human services data in a way that is useful for human service administrators. The work will generally take one or more of the following forms: formal evaluation performance measurement and monitoring and performance-based contracting. The Associate Researcher will also be implementing techniques described above that have already been developed by the Center, assisting in the design and implementation of program evaluation, conducting teaching and training sessions for human service administrators and conducting focused research on specific areas of concern of public human services agencies. Chapin Hall is an independent policy research center whose mission is to build knowledge that improves policies and programs for children and youth, families, and their communities. For more information about Chapin Hall, please see our website at www.chapinhall.org. Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values and actively seeks diversity in its workforce.

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