Research Assistant, Center for Innovations in Community Safety
Location: Washington, DC
Job ID: JR21623
Salary: $15.75 - $19.25 per hour
Closing Date: May 30, 2025
At the Center for Innovations in Community Safety (CICS), we use individual interventions and systems-level change to transform and end over-reliance on policing and to mitigate the devastating impacts of racial and ethnic discrimination and economic inequality in the criminal legal system.
The Research Assistant - in a temporary role - provides administrative and support across CICS research initiatives toward fulfill our mission to transform police culture. They support the Director of Research and Evaluation in collaborating with faculty, staff, and community partners, and executing research activities to measure the impact of community safety-related programs and interventions, including programs being implemented by CICS. Additionally, they support mixed methods research, data collection and analyses, and help draft research protocols and presentations of data analyses; and present research findings for diverse audiences, including donors, policy-makers, journalists, and academics among others, through reports, data visualizations and other publications. Reporting to the Director of Research and Evaluation, the Research Assistant has duties that include but are not limited to:
Research
Provide support for CICS research and evaluation activities, including research design, data collection, and analysis.
Support the implementation of various mixed-methods ranging from surveys to focus groups.
Support CICS in developing and implementing community-engaged research methods - e.g., participatory action research.
Assist with data entry, cleaning, and analysis using statistical software - e.g., SPSS, Qualtrics, Stata.
Identify opportunities to expand research that aligns with CICS mission and core values.
Project Management
Spearhead project management of research for CICS programs, including ABLE, Policing for Tomorrow, and Jigsaw.
Schedule and attend meetings with internal staff and external stakeholders.
Track progress – e.g., taking meeting notes, establishing and following up on action items, and monitoring budgets.
Support CICS staff as needed across research activities.
Writing
Conduct literature reviews and draft written documents - including IRB proposals and revisions, research instruments, study findings, and grant proposals.
Develop charts, infographics, and other visual representations of study findings.
Prepare progress reports for the CICS and stakeholders, and assist with publishing other articles, reports, and presentations.
