Building Capacity for Military Connected Schools at the USC School of Social Work is looking for two experienced doctoral students to work in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of researchers on a variety of mixed method research and program evaluation projects.
Time commitment: 20 hours/week
Pay: Competitive; commensurate with experience
Expected start date: January 2012
Deadline: November 28, 2011
Interviews begin: December 5, 2011
Occasional travel to San Diego and Riverside counties required
Project Description Building Capacity is a four year $7.6 million Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) funded partnership. The Building Capacity Consortium is a partnership between the University of Southern California and eight military connected schools districts in San Diego and Riverside counties.
The consortium aims to create sustainable and replicable infrastructures for data-driven models of responsive and supportive schools. http://buildingcapacity.usc.edu/
Job Responsibilities
• Conduct background research for projects; succinctly summarize large amounts of secondary research
• Foreground and implement qualitative research projects consistent with project goals and evaluation needs
• Develop protocols consistent with data collection plan (e.g. interview protocols, focus group protocols, documents, field notes, etc.)
• Oversee quantitative/qualitative data collection and analyses in collaboration with other members of the research team (primarily student workers)
• Initiate and maintain project timelines
• Proactively identify challenges and provide recommendations for how to make projects run more smoothly
• Assist with preliminary/basic quantitative analyses (as needed)
If interested, please submit a short cover letter and CV/resume to Dr. Hazel Atuel at atuel@usc.edu.
