Senior Research Manager, Health Lab

Department
 

UL Public Safety Portfolio 911

About the Department
 

The Health Lab’s mission is to partner with civic and community leaders to identify, rigorously evaluate and help scale programs and policies that improve health outcomes, particularly for low-income and disadvantaged urban residents. To accomplish our mission, we seek to identify and engage vulnerable people so they can access services and opportunities that will improve their safety, health and vitality. We work closely with partners, including persons with lived experiences, to learn directly from them about their challenges. We evaluate interventions that seek to address these challenges and advise our partners using data-driven results. We are deeply committed to understanding the impacts of policies, programs and interventions.

Like the needs of those we seek to serve, our partnerships are vast. While these partners represent many communities and community-based organizations, they also include medical and social service providers, emergency service providers, members of the corrections, policing and other law enforcement communities.

We believe that two key obstacles prevent cities from mobilizing and coordinating their rich resources across sectors. First, cities lack evidence about the multi-sector impact of their efforts. Second, cities lack coordination mechanisms and incentives to collaborate across sectors. The Health Lab dedicates our work and our resources to these two issues. Our primary goal is to generate high-quality evidence about interventions that can sustainably improve urban health and be widely scaled.

For more information about the UChicago Urban Labs, go to http://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/

Job Summary
 

The UChicago Urban Labs is seeking a Senior Research Manager to work on large-scale social policy research, data science, and program evaluation projects to support the development of effective policy interventions at the nexus of public health and public safety, with portfolios focusing on housing/homelessness, 911/crisis response, and criminal-legal diversion/deflection/reentry.

The Senior Research Manager will have the opportunity to manage various stakeholder relationships and contribute to all aspects of research design, methods, and evaluation of research projects. Duties will include managing and facilitating communication between Health Lab and external stakeholders, project-related writing, conducting literature reviews, and managing qualitative and quantitative research projects. The ideal candidate will be organized and able to execute multiple project work plans, including setting project timelines and meeting key milestones.

This position requires an individual who can lead a small research team running large, field-based program evaluations and technical assistance projects. The position offers the opportunity to work directly with leading social policy researchers at the University of Chicago, as well as a team of administrative staff, other project managers, research analysts, and student research assistants. The Senior Research Manager will also collaborate closely with the UChicago Urban Labs' partners in the public and nonprofit sectors.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to study design and coordinates implementation options with program partners; manages subject selection and randomization process; travels to program sites to monitor and assess implementation

• Oversees University of Chicago IRB procedures and maintains confidentiality of participants information; ensures compliance with institutional, state, and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives, and mandates

• Works with PI and Director of Operations to develop budgets and coordinate all aspects of grant submission to federal and foundation funding agencies; manages progress reports, performance, or financial reporting as required by the granting agency; monitors anticipated and actual costs charged to project budgets, regularly communicates these to Grant Manager, to identify and prevent potential overruns

• Develops and disseminates necessary project materials to research team and partner agencies. This could include preparing project memo, reports, presentations, and academic papers targeting both policymakers, academic researchers and other stakeholders

• Advises other research staff on project budget development, IRB procedures, and funding proposals

• Supervise other research staff and provide guidance on professional development, goal setting, and lab- or organization-wide opportunities

• Supports and leads fundraising efforts through identifying opportunities, developing potential partnerships, writing and coordinating proposal d