11 Research and Development jobs

Job Title: Researcher Department: Programs, Advocacy, and Action (PAA) Reports to: Director for Research, Impact, and Learning Level: Union Position, Grade 6 FLSA Status: Exempt, Full-Time (35 hours/week) Starting Salary Range: $75,000 to 82,500 Location: Boston/Cambridge, MA (some positions may be remote eligible) Other Work Conditions The organization requires all UUSC community members to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Our office in Cambridge, MA is regularly cleaned, and standard safety protocols are followed in accordance with public health authorities to prevent the spread of infectious disease.  Organization Overview Guided by Unitarian Universalist principles and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UUSC is a human rights organization that strives to advance human rights, dismantle systems of oppression, and uplift the inherent dignity and power of all people. We focus our work in three intersectional areas of justice:...

About the Opportunity The Community Health Impact Coalition ( www.CHWimpact.org ) is making professional community health workers (CHWs) a norm worldwide by changing guidelines, funding, and policy. We are a network of CHW advocates (CHWs and aligned health delivery organizations) in 40+ countries that works to ensure CHWs get the fair pay, skills, supplies, and support they need so everyone can have access to high quality healthcare. We are building the collective action networks required to (i) conduct large-scale research on the practices that enable better community-based care to reach more people and (ii) ensure those practices get adopted by health systems everywhere. The Coalition is recruiting a Director of Research to oversee and accelerate the Coalition’s research portfolio, the goal of which is to change ideas of what’s possible in community health by building the evidence base for professional community health workers. The successful candidate will direct the...

Organization Overview  GreenLight Fund is a national nonprofit with a local focus that partners with communities to create opportunities for inclusive prosperity.  Each year we facilitate a community-driven process that matches the local needs of individuals and families not met by existing programs, to organizations with track records of success elsewhere. Working with communities, we identify, invite in and launch proven organizations, providing collaborative support so they can quickly take root and deliver change.  Everything we do is designed to remove barriers to inclusive prosperity all too often rooted in racial inequities. Our impact increases exponentially as we address one specific, community-identified need each year, in each GreenLight site.  Since 2004, we have launched 44 portfolio organizations across eleven sites, invested $30.5M, and attracted an additional $206M from other funding sources, reaching more than 550,000 individuals and families last...

Student Leadership Network  supports young people growing up in diverse underserved communities to gain access to educational opportunities that help prepare them to lead successful lives. In 1996, Student Leadership Network (SL Network) opened the United States’ first all-girls public school in 30 years – The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem. What started with one school has grown to a network of 36 public schools, including 13 all-girls schools nationwide, and has expanded to support college access and success in co-educational settings across the country. Over the last 25 years, SL Network has impacted more than 44,000 students through three life-changing programs: The Young Women's Leadership Schools (TYWLS), CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), and Young Women's Leadership Network (YWLN). To learn more, visit  www.student leadership network.org.   Do you love being organized? Does it give you the energy to work collaboratively to think of the best practices and...

Organization Overview  GreenLight Fund is a national nonprofit with a local focus that partners with communities to create opportunities for inclusive prosperity.  Each year we facilitate a community-driven process that matches the local needs of individuals and families not met by existing programs, to organizations with track records of success elsewhere. Working with communities, we identify, invite in and launch proven organizations, providing collaborative support so they can quickly take root and deliver change.  Everything we do is designed to remove barriers to inclusive prosperity all too often rooted in racial inequities. Our impact increases exponentially as we address one specific, community-identified need each year, in each GreenLight site.  Since 2004, we have launched 44 portfolio organizations across eleven sites, invested $30.5M, and attracted an additional $206M from other funding sources, reaching more than 550,000 individuals and families last...

Responsibilities: Manage multiple complex projects ensuring that they are executed on time and meet stated outcomes. Develop and manage strategic relationships with a variety of partners, potentially including policymakers, regulator, government administrators, financial services firms, employers, and fintechs. Write policy and business communications to share Commonwealth’s work with diverse stakeholders. Develop innovate approaches to regulatory, administrative, and legislative policy, including working with staff to develop experiments or field tests of these approaches. Share insights and findings with policymakers, industry players, funders, and the public sector through thought pieces and publications. Represent Commonwealth at meetings and events with the ability to effectively engage diverse audiences, including public officials, policymakers, employers, financial service industry leaders, researchers, and community advocates....

Summary The Child Health and Development Institute (CHDI) is seeking a Senior Project Coordinator or Project Coordinator to work on projects related to strengthening Connecticut’s children’s behavioral health system, and improving the supply, recruitment, retention, competencies and diversity of its workforce. CHDI works to improve the quality of behavioral health for Connecticut children and families. CHDI is the Coordinating Center for multiple state- and federally funded implementation, training, and quality improvement initiatives in Connecticut and supports implementation of the state’s comprehensive Children’s Behavioral Health Plan. Responsibilities may include working closely with higher education institutions, state agencies, community-based providers, and other initiative partners and subcontractors to identify and implement strategies to strengthen the behavioral health workforce pipeline and to develop and coordinate behavioral health-related online trainings. Other...

Summary The Child Health and Development Institute (CHDI) is seeking a Senior Project Coordinator or Project Coordinator to work on projects related to evidence-based practice dissemination and quality improvement initiatives in children’s behavioral health programs. CHDI works to improve the quality of behavioral health for Connecticut children and families. CHDI is the Coordinating Center for multiple state- and federally funded implementation, training, and quality improvement initiatives in Connecticut, including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct Problems (MATCH-ADTC), Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), Bounce Back (BB), Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC), and Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). Responsibilities may include working closely with community-based providers, schools, and other initiative partners and...

Time-bound position: 24 months   About America Forward and New Profit New Profit is a pioneering national venture philanthropy organization that backs breakthrough social entrepreneurs who are advancing equity and opportunity in America.   New Profit invests in visionary leaders -- both social entrepreneurs and system entrepreneurs -- to help them scale high-impact solutions and achieve systemic change. To date, New Profit has invested over $150 million in scaling innovative organizations' impact. America Forward is the DC-based nonpartisan policy initiative of New Profit. America Forward's mission is to unite social innovators with policymakers to translate local impact into national change.  America Forward advances an education, workforce development, poverty alleviation, and social innovation public policy agenda that advances equity, fosters innovation,and rewards results. Staff of America Forward direct a Coalition of more than 100 leading social...