Location: Washington, DC
Job Number: JR17879
Georgetown’s Center for Innovations in Community Safety (CICS) is dedicated to a new vision of community safety, a vision that recognizes the need to take a broad approach to meeting community needs while reducing the harm of current approaches.
Job Overview
The Research Assistant - in a temporary role - supports the work of Georgetown’s Center for Innovations in Community Safety (CICS), with primary responsibility to provide administrative and support across CICS research initiatives.
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.
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.
Duties include but are not limited to:
Research (40%)
- 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 (40%)
- 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 by, for example, taking meeting notes, establishing and following up on action items, and monitoring budgets
- Support CICS staff as needed across research activities
Writing (20%)
- Conduct literature reviews, 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.
