[Hiring] Professor / Principal Investigator @AlphaX

Role Description

The Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) is seeking a professor-level researcher to serve as Principal Investigator on a federal education research proposal studying how preservice teacher education can attract, prepare and retain preK-12 general and special education teachers. This is a project-based, part-time grant key personnel role, not a salaried faculty position.

What you'll do:

• Serve as Principal Investigator, leading the research design and scholarly framing of the proposal.
• Shape research questions on recruiting, preparing and retaining general and special education teachers through preservice preparation.
• Lead the methods, measurement and analysis plan, working with WIL's workforce data and research team.
• Help identify teacher-preparation programs, school districts and other partners for the study.
• Write and review key proposal sections, including the significance, research plan and personnel narrative.
• Contribute your CV, biosketch and citable prior research to the application.
• If funded, lead the study, its findings and its publications with the project team.

Qualifications

• Earned doctorate (EdD or PhD), preferably in education, special education or teacher education.
• Current or former faculty appointment (assistant, associate or full professor, or equivalent).
• Published or funded research on teacher preparation, the special education workforce or teacher retention.
• Ability to commit part-time, remote effort to proposal development in October through December 2026.

Requirements

• Prior IES or other federal research grant experience as PI, co-PI or key personnel (nice to have).
• Experience with preK-12 general and special education teacher-preparation programs or district partners (nice to have).
• Quantitative, mixed-methods or causal research design expertise (nice to have).