Research Coordinator

Department

Crown Research Molina

About the Department

As one of the first schools of social work in the United States, the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice has shaped the field for more than 100 years. As part of the University of Chicago, the Crown Family School shares the University's core values and distinctive intellectual culture. Crown Family School faculty, staff, and students focus on identifying solutions to complex social problems through research, training, and direct community engagement. Guided by an interdisciplinary tradition, Crown Family School scholars conduct innovative research to address interconnected social challenges such as educational inequality, health disparities, crime and violence, poverty, and child and family welfare—working at multiple scales, from individual to policy-level interventions. More than 10,000 Crown Family School graduates in the US and globally hold leadership positions in academia, at nonprofits, in business, and at governmental agencies. The Crown Family School is the home of three academic centers. These include the Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development, the Kersten Institute for Urban Education, and the Center for Climate, Health, and Society (CHAS). More information may be found at https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/.

Job Summary

The Family ENGAGEMENT Research Group at the University of Chicago Crown Family School seeks a Research Coordinator to support innovative research focused on maternal and infant mental health. The coordinator's primary responsibility will be supporting a newly funded learning collaborative with home visiting programs that aims to strengthen maternal mental health identification, referral, and implementation of evidence-informed practices. While the learning collaborative will be the coordinator’s primary responsibility, the position is designed as a research program coordinator role supporting multiple community-engaged studies and grant applications within the Family ENGAGEMENT Research Group. This includes contributing to a growing portfolio of research focused on maternal and infant mental health, economic hardship, home visiting, early childhood systems, and implementation science. The coordinator will work closely with community organizations, healthcare partners, and interdisciplinary collaborators to support community-engaged implementation research.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to externally funded research and develop skills in project management, implementation research, qualitative and quantitative methods, and academic writing. This position will be responsible for maintaining project timelines and ensuring accurate and ethical data collection and analysis. The Research Coordinator will receive close mentorship from Dr. Abigail Palmer Molina in implementation science, maternal and infant mental health research, community-engaged research, project management, and scientific writing. Opportunities for scientific authorship, conference presentations, and professional development are available based on contributions to the research program.

The applicant must have outstanding organizational and communication skills, project management abilities, academic writing skills and team management skills. This position requires knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other statistical/qualitative data analysis programs. The position is grant funded, with the term of the assignment continuing for the duration of the initial grant and subsequent grant renewals. If the grant is not renewed, the position will end in alignment with the grant end date, July 30, 2027.

To learn more about the Family ENGAGEMENT Research Group and our research, please visit our website (https://familyengagement.crownschool.uchicago.edu/).

Responsibilities

• Maintains technical and administrative support for across research projects, specifically coordinates implementation of a multi-site learning collaborative designed to improve maternal mental health identification, referral, and support within the Parents as Teachers home visiting program, including communication with participating sites, meeting coordination, and project tracking.
• Coordinates with Principal Investigators and project leadership to develop, implement, and monitor IRB applications and ensure procedures are conducted with fidelity.
• Oversees data collection to ensure the consistency of procedures across projects, including the administration of surveys and interview protocols, data monitoring and cleaning, qualitative data coding, response rate and participant demographic tracking.
• May present work at scientific meetings and contribute to scholarly publications.
• Reviews documents for spelling, grammar, and adherence