Who: The MOM Project
What: The Mom Project is thrilled to partner with a Non-Profit in Downtown Chicago who is a faith-based organization that works with communities to address issues of racism and poverty. They are seeking a full-time (35 hour/week+ 1 day a week remote) Director of Development and Communications to join their team.
The typical work week for this role is from 9:30am-4pm Mon-Thurs in the office and Fridays are allocated for remote work capabilities. The client is very flexible if candidate requires additional scheduling needs.
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In the heart of Chicago, we offer degrees in fields of study that can change your life and change the world. CUPPA students and alumni are uniquely skilled to build and transform sustainable urban neighborhoods and communities and to address the challenges presented in the 21st century. Find our more about our Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degrees at cuppa.uic.edu.
Follow our job postings below and our national job tweets at @CUPPACareers. For student internships and student opportunities, head to the CUPPA Student Opportunities Blog
Have a job or internship to post? Send an email with the title, location, job description, and contact information to cuppa@uic.edu
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Senior Research Associate - Heartland Alliance- Chicago, IL
Senior Research Associate
The Social IMPACT Research Center
Education and/or Experience: Master's degree in Social Sciences or related field and three years of social science research experience, or BA plus five years of related experience. Experience should include supervisory responsibilities, data systems development and utilization, and communication of research findings to diverse audiences.
The Social IMPACT Research Center
Heartland Alliance
Chicago, IL
The Social IMPACT Research Center conducts applied research for nonprofits, foundations, advocacy groups, governments, coalitions, and the media to help them measure, inform, and grow their social impact. IMPACT also regularly reports on key poverty trends to equip decision makers with sound data to inform public policy. The Senior Research Associate is responsible for leading and managing all aspects of research projects, including administrative functions like fundraising as well as serving as an agency spokesperson and active representative in external contexts. Individual accountabilities and work volume will be established through the development of annual Success Objectives, within the framework outlined below.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The Social IMPACT Research Center conducts applied research for nonprofits, foundations, advocacy groups, governments, coalitions, and the media to help them measure, inform, and grow their social impact. IMPACT also regularly reports on key poverty trends to equip decision makers with sound data to inform public policy. The Senior Research Associate is responsible for leading and managing all aspects of research projects, including administrative functions like fundraising as well as serving as an agency spokesperson and active representative in external contexts. Individual accountabilities and work volume will be established through the development of annual Success Objectives, within the framework outlined below.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serves as lead project manager on multiple projects.
- Develops and implements project work plans.
- Collaborates on research design and developing methods.
- Adheres to research ethics as outlined in Institutional Review Board protocols and agency policies.
- Writes Institutional Review Board proposals.
- Manages client relationships including communication with clients and other research stakeholders.
- Develops expertise in research methods and issue areas applicable to projects.
- Reviews literature from appropriate sources.
- Collaborates to develop sampling plans.
- Develops and adapts data collection tools.
- Develops and implements research recruitment materials.
- Develops informed consent materials, and administers and tracks informed consent process and documentation.
- Tests data collection tools and procedures.
- Conducts focus groups, interviews, document review, and observations.
- Collects quantitative and qualitative data.
- Facilitates group processes.
- Develop data collection and analysis protocols for third party implementers.
- Trains data collection team, including third party implementers.
- Tracks response rates, incentive receipt and mailings, and conducts research participant follow up.
- Assists with designing and integrating databases.
- Designs, enters, cleans, and conducts analysis of data.
- Writes interim and final reports and research summaries for various communication purposes.
- Visualizes data for analytical purposes as well as reports and presentations.
- Presents findings in public forums and to affected parties.
- Responds to data requests.
- Serves as media spokesperson on findings.
- Represents agency in leadership capacity in internal and external work groups.
- Responsible for project budget.
- Assists with fundraising.
- May directly supervise permanent and temporary employees at Heartland Alliance.
- Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, supervising graduate interns, and resolving problems.
- Assists on other agency projects as needed.
- Travel as required.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and/or Experience: Master's degree in Social Sciences or related field and three years of social science research experience, or BA plus five years of related experience. Experience should include supervisory responsibilities, data systems development and utilization, and communication of research findings to diverse audiences.
Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.,) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills: Proficiency in SPSS and Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word required. Proficiency in Internet Explorer, Outlook/Exchange; Windows operating systems; and other software routinely used by Heartland Alliance.
Other Skills: Experience working with people who are very low income and people of different races and ethnicities.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Req ID: 3558
Location: Chicago - North Side
# of Openings: 1
Shift: 1
FT/PT: Full time
Employment Type: Regular
Salary Schedule: ADM 2
Heartland Alliance makes all hiring and employment decisions without regard to race, creed, color, age, gender, gender identity, marital or parental status, religion, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, sexual identity, immigrant status, political affiliation or belief, ex-offender status (depending on the offense and position to be filled), unfavorable military discharge, membership in an organization whose primary purpose is the protection of civil rights or improvement of living conditions and human relations, height, weight, or HIV infection, in accord with the Organization's AIDS Policy Statement of September, 1987. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should contact the Employee Services Office at (312) 660-1431.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Req ID: 3558
Location: Chicago - North Side
# of Openings: 1
Shift: 1
FT/PT: Full time
Employment Type: Regular
Salary Schedule: ADM 2
Heartland Alliance makes all hiring and employment decisions without regard to race, creed, color, age, gender, gender identity, marital or parental status, religion, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, sexual identity, immigrant status, political affiliation or belief, ex-offender status (depending on the offense and position to be filled), unfavorable military discharge, membership in an organization whose primary purpose is the protection of civil rights or improvement of living conditions and human relations, height, weight, or HIV infection, in accord with the Organization's AIDS Policy Statement of September, 1987. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should contact the Employee Services Office at (312) 660-1431.
Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA
Dean of the School of Architecture
University of Virginia
Location:
Charlottesville, VA
DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville, VA
The University of Virginia seeks an exceptional leader who will work with us to collectively explore how design education and research should be structured to best serve an increasingly interconnected and globalized society.
Together we face complex societal challenges, including climate change, poverty reduction, equitable access to education and healthcare, and the creation of resilient and livable buildings, neighborhoods and cities. We seek an individual who understands and embraces the pivotal roles that designers, planners, and historians must play in addressing a host of difficult problems that have significant ramifications from local to global contexts.
Our next dean is invited to lead a willing and able group to conceive new ideas to engage spatial design as an agent of social, technological, and environmental priorities facing the world. We seek a dean who will inspire us and challenge us to discover new creative approaches to learning, teaching, practicing, and undertaking advanced research that serve our mission as a public university.
We seek a leader who is able to build upon the distinctive qualities of UVA’s School of Architecture: sustained investigation across the disciplines of Architectural History, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban and Environmental Planning; emergent collaborations across the University; deep and sustained engagement with sites around the world; a demonstrated commitment to exceptional undergraduate and graduate teaching; a growing culture of funded research, scholarship, and design competitions; recent fundraising efforts that have exceeded goals; and remarkably passionate and engaged students.
We seek a leader who is able to build upon the distinctive qualities of UVA’s School of Architecture: sustained investigation across the disciplines of Architectural History, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban and Environmental Planning; emergent collaborations across the University; deep and sustained engagement with sites around the world; a demonstrated commitment to exceptional undergraduate and graduate teaching; a growing culture of funded research, scholarship, and design competitions; recent fundraising efforts that have exceeded goals; and remarkably passionate and engaged students.
For more information about the search and committee, please visit: https://executivesearch.virginia.edu/search/architecturedean
Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, has been engaged to assist with this important search. Inquiries, nominations, and applications should be directed in confidence to:
Jane Gruenebaum, Gail Gregory or Jon Miller
www.imsearch.com/5593
Isaacson, Miller
1300 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: 202-682-1504, Fax: 202-296-7271
Jane Gruenebaum, Gail Gregory or Jon Miller
www.imsearch.com/5593
Isaacson, Miller
1300 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: 202-682-1504, Fax: 202-296-7271
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