Research Project Manager - Food for Climate League - Remote

For more information and to apply please visit: LinkedIn 

One of the key barriers to widespread adoption of climate-smart eating is the perception of it. All too often, people believe sustainable food culture is not for them: elitist, flavorless, expensive, or too difficult. We will not reach global climate goals in the short timeline given to us by scientists unless we make the sustainable food movement enticing, accessible, and culturally relevant to the majority of the world’s population. At FCL, we are working to accomplish this. In doing so, we aim to build an equitable, nutritious, and sustainable food system for all that respects people’s core needs, values, and cultural diversity.

Food for Climate League is looking for a Research Project Manager invested in driving sustainable food behaviors. The Research Project Manager will work under the Director of Research and Senior Project Manager and will be responsible for managing the execution of up to three research projects at once, as well as assisting with the research itself. This may include: contributing to the methodology development; supporting research analysis; supporting ideation sessions, interviews, collective visioning sessions, and focus groups; developing and testing of prototypes; and assistance coordinating with research vendors and partners.

Food for Climate League is a trailblazing, female-led 501(c)3 nonprofit working to make climate-smart eating the norm. Climate-smart eating is plant-forward, regenerative, and respectful of resources; it celebrates diversity, improves human nutrition, connects communities, is affordable and accessible to all, and preserves our shared planet. Honored on Fast Company’s 2022 list of World Changing Ideas, we collaboratively create toolkits, programs, and campaigns—founded in original behavioral science research—to help make climate-smart eating accessible, enticing, and culturally relevant to the masses. By connecting the dots between sustainable food culture and people's unique needs, values, and cultures, we can shift the perception of climate-smart eating and drive engagement.

At FCL, we utilize a research-driven, people-oriented framework focused on equity and cultural identities to facilitate a deep understanding of how people think and how they make decisions. By doing so, we create narratives and implementation strategies that position climate-smart foods as accessible, enticing, and culturally relevant to the masses.

Furthermore, we take into account the complexities of climate psychology, behavioral theory, and the intention-action gap.

To do this, we use…

• Human-Centered Design and Self-Determination Theory to assess people’s core needs
• Equity-Centered Community Design and Community-Centered Participatory Design to co-create and evaluate our interventions with the audience of focus
• Behavioral Design to assess where and how to intervene
• Narrative Strategies to re-frame the conversation and shift perceptions
• Food Trend Analyses to link our approach to existing cultural momentum

By connecting climate-smart food culture with people's core needs for control, community, and purpose, FCL supports organizations, businesses, and governments with the tools to effectively and efficiently catalyze supply and demand for food that’s better for us and the planet.

Roles and Responsibilities

Project Management

• Manage the GANTT, coordinate all deliverables and tasks in Asana
• Prioritize and manage multiple tasks with overlapping deadlines
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and relevant stakeholders
• Develop and manage project scope, budgets, and timelines, and project status reports
• Keep the project team on track for upcoming milestones
• Manage regular team calls
• Lead weekly reporting to the team
• Lead monthly reporting via newsletter to client
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Use and continually develop leadership skills
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and partners
• When needed, manage workshops and trainings, sending invitations, arranging tech set up, coordinating with host organization(s), sending emails to attendees

Research

• Conduct literature reviews and landscape analyses
• Review and support interview guidelines and analysis
• Support survey question development and lead survey dissemination
• Lead focus group coordination, recruit participants, and report updates
• Lead interview coordination
• Support prototype development
• Lead final report coordination and assist with the development
• Provide input to dissemination plan
• Support research analysis
• Support final package development

Required Qualifications

• Completion of a Bachelor’s degree or higher at an accredited college or university;
• Proven project management experience;
• Familiarity with project management software and technologies (such as Asana);
• The ability to work independently to solve problems;
• Knowledge of (or willingness to educate oneself on) food systems issues, and the connection between food, agriculture, and the climate crisis;
• Passionate about engaging diverse (Black and POC) audiences in the climate-smart food movement;
• Maturity, ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a deadline-oriented environment;
• Outstanding attention to detail and organizational skills;
• Ability to work independently to manage one’s time and meet deadlines; and
• Commitment to working collaboratively with a small team of motivated individuals.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-4 years of highly relevant, full-time work experience;
• Experience conducting primary research in one of the following areas: psychology, economics, sociology, or a related field;
• Experience presenting research findings to a lay audience;
• Experience recruiting subjects for online studies using a platform such as Mechanical Turk or Qualtrics;
• Experience using statistical software packages such as SPSS, Stata, etc;
• Experience using software packages for behavioral experiments, such as DirectRT, oTree, Inquisit, or Qualtrics;
• Ability to parse through data and translate findings;
• Strong understanding of food systems issues and interest in food systems change; and
• Excitement about building a sustainable, equitable, and healthy future for people and the planet.
• Knowledge of food systems issues, and the connection between food, agriculture, and the climate crisis;
• Strong interest in food systems change;
• Interest in climate psychology, human-centered design, and/or food choice architecture; and
• Excitement about building a sustainable and healthy future for people and the planet.

 

How to Apply

Please include a cover letter outlining why this position is of interest—and a good fit—at this point in your career, what prior experiences (personal or professional) qualify you for this work, and why you are personally interested in food and climate issues. Please also include a resume and upload this as a single document. Please provide details of two references and indicate whether we can contact them now.

Contact: Ting Ting Eeo, TingTing@foodforclimateleague.org. Please put “Research Project Manager” in the email subject line.

• Compensation: $50-$60K depending on experience and qualifications
• Location: Virtual
• Hours: Approximately 40 hours a week
• Benefits:
• All federal holidays off
• PTO
• Sick days
• Parental leave
• Personal leave
• Floating holidays
• This position also offers:
• A chance to be at the table with visionary leaders and contribute to pioneering work to help catalyze a global cultural shift toward climate-beneficial eating as the norm.
• Mentorship from a world-class team of female food leaders in different countries, with different skill sets, and a combined track record of effecting widespread change toward healthier, more sustainable food for all.
• Opportunity to work with various research partners with expertise in human-centered design and behavior change.
• Access to the inside dialogue, challenges, innovations, and insights of some of the largest, most influential food companies in the world.
• Up-close experience with the process of growing an early-stage venture.

For more information and to apply please visit: LinkedIn 

Research Manager - Rice University

Who: Rice University

What: The Kinder Institute for Urban Research is a multi-disciplinary “think-and-do tank” housed on the Rice University campus in central Houston, focusing on urban issues in Houston, the American Sun Belt, and around the world. The Kinder Institute builds better cities and improves people’s lives by bringing together data, research, engagement and action.

The research manager conducts research and manages the administration and operations of large complex research projects that leads to work products within the Institute’s overall research agenda. S/he conveys vision, ideas, goals, and issues as well as produces reports and presentations. The research manager’s work focuses on projects touching a variety of issues, including housing, resilience, governance and transportation. Examples of this work may include housing studies focused both on the built environment and the individual residents, transportation surveys and network analyses, and work around greenspace and urban development. The day-to-day work of the research manager consists of overseeing and participating in research of several ongoing projects. The manager may direct the work of individual staff members in addition to undertaking specific research assignments. S/he partners with Kinder Institute staff both on the presentation of salient data and on the writing of connected reports.

Director of Research, Metropolitan Planning Council (Chicago)

Who: Metropolitan Planning Council

What: MPC is hiring a full-time Director of Research responsible for the oversight, execution and growth of all of the organization’s research activities. The Director of Research provides cross-organizational leadership to enable MPC to create a more equitable, sustainable and prosperous region.
MPC is seeking a highly motivated individual with a background in public policy research. Strong writing, external relationship-building, project management, analytical and policy development skills are required. The ability to work in teams and lead others is essential. The position offers the opportunity to work closely with multiple colleagues, functions and teams, both internally and externally.
The Director of Research contributes to the development of organization-wide research strategies and ensures that all research activities are advancing the goals within MPC’s annual workplan. This position supervises a Research Associate and several undergraduate and/or graduate student research interns, and shapes research products of a range of project-specific staff. Primary responsibilities include:

Associate Director, Urban Labs - University of Chicago (Deadline 6/22!)

Who: By 2050, the global urban population will nearly double to 6.4 billion. This unprecedented growth in the global urban population creates incredible opportunities but also intensifies the most difficult problems cities face, such as concentrated poverty, crime, poor-quality schooling, and pollution. The University of Chicago founded Urban Labs to help address these challenges. Urban Labs is a set of highly synergistic labs focused on undertaking inquiry and having impact on five essential dimensions of urban life: crime, education, health, poverty, and energy & environment.

Urban Labs partners with cities to identify and rigorously evaluate the policies and programs with the greatest potential to improve human lives at scale. Urban Labs’ evidence-based approach gives policymakers and practitioners the knowledge they need to effectively achieve the greatest social good per dollar spent. In sum, UChicago Urban Labs: Identifies promising solutions to urban challenges; Tests the most promising urban policies and programs; Scales-up the most effective and cost-efficient policies and programs.

What: The Associate Director will develop and maintain relationships with Health Lab partners, identify ways to leverage the Lab's unique resources, and assist our partners in improving the health and well-being of citizens in Chicago. The Associate Director will report to the Executive Director. Responsibilities include:

Grants and Contracts Associate, UIC School of Public Health

Who: UIC School of Public Health, Office of Research Services

What: The Office of Research Services in the School of Public Health is seeking a Grants and Contracts Associate. This position implements the research priorities in the School of Public Health (SPH) in alignment with the College’s research strategic plan. The Grants and Contracts Associate provides expert guidance to SPH faculty, staff, and students in maximizing the competitiveness of multi-college, collaborative, and complex research proposals. This position customizes the support services for investigators, which includes crafting and editing content of components of a research proposal, coordinating all aspects of the proposal submission process, developing customized budgets based on the research strategy timelines, and serving as a resource for investigators on regulations in the protection of human research participants. Duties:

Research Manager, University of Chicago Crime Lab and Urban Education Lab - Chicago, IL

Who We Are

The University of Chicago Urban Labs, launched in 2015, were established to create knowledge to address fundamental urban challenges, and to work with policy makers and practitioners to improve the human condition in cities worldwide. The Urban Labs seek to evaluate the most promising policies and programs across the domains of crime, education, energy & environment, health and poverty to generate gold-standard evidence about what works and why, and to support policy makers and practitioners to scale up programs and policies that can have a significant positive impact on human lives. The Urban Labs team rigorously evaluates promising policies and interventions to make them as informative as possible. Our goal is to assemble a portfolio of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to generate new evidence about what works, for whom, and why, and to conduct benefit-cost analyses of different interventions to enable policymakers to prioritize resources for the combination of strategies that achieve the greatest social good per dollar spent. For more information about the UChicago Urban Labs, go to http:urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/

Five Labs. One Approach.

UChicago Urban Labs:

• Use research and evidence to understand how cities can work better
• Test the most promising, cost-effective policies and programs
• Work with civic partners to implement and evaluate solutions in real time
• Scale solutions to cities around the country and the world

The Role

The UChicago Urban Labs is seeking a Research Manager to work on large-scale social policy experiments designed to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of poverty interventions. 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.

Duties and 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
• Conducts and manages the data analysis process to ensure proper data collection to evaluate program progress and feasibility
• Oversees University of Chicago IRB procedures and maintains confidentiality of participant information; ensures compliance with institutional, state and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives and mandates
  • Builds and maintains strong relationships with research partners and all participating partners organizations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other community groups
  • Works with PI and Grants Manager 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 Grants Manager, to identify and prevent potential overruns
  • Develops and disseminates necessary project materials to research team and partner agencies
    • Generates tables and graphs for academic papers, reports and presentations; writes, proofreads and fact-checks academic papers, reports and presentations
    • Prepares project memos, summaries, presentations, and manuscripts targeting both policymakers, academic researchers and other stakeholders
    • May supervise other research staff
    • Other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor's degree economics, public policy, or a closely related field required; advanced degree preferred.

Experience

• A minimum two years related work experience required.
• Experience with quantitative data analysis to support the research design preferred.
• Previous experience working in a research organization or managing research projects preferred.
• Previous fieldwork experience preferred.

Competencies

• Strong project management skills with exceptional attention to detail required.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment required.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to maintain positive relationships with various stakeholders required.
• Strong time management skills with a proven ability to multitask and to prioritize activities to successfully complete projects on tight deadlines with little supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present data in a simple and straightforward way for non-technical audiences required.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment required.
• Knowledge of urban policy, social policy, behavioral economics and research literature on income inequality preferred.

How to apply

To Apply:

Submit resume, cover letter, writing sample, and transcripts to https://jobopportunities.uchicago.edu , requisition 098388.

Research Manager, International Programs, Water.org - Kansas City, MO

Position Title: International Programs, Research Manager 
Category: Full-time position
Reports to: Senior Manager, Information and Evaluation
Location: Kansas City, MO
Closing Date: January 31, 2015

About Water.org

780 million people – about one in nine – lack access to safe water; 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet. At Water.org, we are dedicated to changing this. Join us.
At Water.org we envision the day when everyone in the world can take a safe drink of water and experience the dignity of a toilet. For more than 20 years, we have been at the forefront of developing and delivering solutions to the water crisis. Founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, Water.org pioneers innovative, community-driven, and market-based solutions to ensure all people have access to safe water and sanitation; giving women hope, children health, and communities a future. To date, Water.org has positively transformed millions of lives in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean by providing access to safe water and sanitation. Learn more at www.Water.org

Position Summary
The position of the Research Manager is a newly created position at Water.org. The Research Manager will plan and manage a wide variety of water and sanitation research initiatives, conduct greater analysis of Water.org data to package into research products, and support program evaluation efforts. This is a collaborative and facilitative role that demands focus, cultural sensitivity and requires a highly-resourceful individual with strong emotional intelligence, self-motivation, and analytical skills.
The Research Manager will work on the International (IP) team within its Monitoring and Evaluation unit and be based alongside other members of the IP team at our headquarters in Kansas City, MO. The research manager will report to the Senior Manager, Information and Evaluation who is based remotely. S/he will also work with other members of the Water.org team in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru, and the U.S.

Key Responsibilities
Research and evaluation design & management

• Plan, design and manage a wide variety of water and sanitation research initiatives. Includes longitudinal studies involving baseline, end-line, and impact studies.
  
• Manage and oversee research consultants.
  
• Contribute to the design of research tools and methods.
  
• Support program evaluations including design, implementation and analysis.
  Data analysis and dissemination activities
  
  • Perform statistical analyses on data, contributing to the greater analysis of Water.org’s data.
    
  • Analyze data using qualitative and quantitative methods using statistical applications such as STATA,
    SPSS, R, etc.

• Develop charts, figures, and analytical text for briefs and reports of research findings.
  
• Disseminate research findings to various stakeholders.
  
• Contribute to reports, research papers and learnings.
  
• Assist in devising methods and procedures for collecting, cleaning, organizing and processing data.
  
  
  Requirements
  

• Master’s degree in statistics, international development studies, health, economics, or an appropriate related field.
  
• At least 3 years of experience conducting research, including research planning and design.
  
• At least 3 years of experience related to quantitative or qualitative research.
  
• Strong analytical skills, including fluency in working with a statistical software package to analyze,
  summarize, and produce reports from large, complex datasets.
  
• Experience working with multivariate analysis.
  
• Ability to investigate and analyze information and to draw conclusions.
  
• Computer literacy, including basic MS Office packages (especially Excel), online and/or in-house
  database platforms.
  
• Must be authorized to work legally in the United States.
  
  
  Skills and Capacities
  
  • Demonstrated record of outstanding academic achievement.
    
  • Demonstrated experience with effectively utilizing statistical software.
    
  • Experience conducting & translating research findings.
    
  • Ability to convey complex data or findings in accessible, informative manner.
    
  • Ability to work within a team environment spread across multiple locations, including direct supervision
    from a remote location.
    
  • Awareness of international development issues, particularly water/sanitation and microfinance.
    
  • Capacity to work professionally with people from different cultures.
    
  • Willingness to travel occasionally to Water.org locations and places of interest.
    
    
    Salary/Benefits
    This position offers full-time benefits, including medical/dental insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement program and periodic review for incentive pay based on organizational and personal achievement. Salary will be based on education and experience, and will coincide with similar nonprofit organizations in international development.
    
    Application Information
    Please visit water.org/about/careers/ to apply. Please title your attachments with Lastname, Firstname. Resumés will be reviewed as they are received.
    NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
    Deadline: January 31, 2015
    Water.org is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious belief or sexual orientation.