[Hiring] Senior Research Manager @YOUTH VILLAGES, INC.

Role Description

Youth Villages is seeking a strategic, highly organized Senior Research Manager for Sponsored Research to lead complex research and evidence-building initiatives that support program improvement, service expansion, and child welfare system change. Reporting to the Director of Research, the person in this role will provide scientific and project leadership across multi-partner research initiatives, working with Youth Villages teams, external research partners, and state and local child welfare agencies. This role will help ensure that research and administrative data are used to answer meaningful strategic questions, inform decisions, and strengthen the use of evidence across Youth Villages and its public-sector partnerships. The Senior Research Manager for Sponsored Research will have primary responsibility for coordinating Map2Impact, a multi-state partnership with the Center for State Child Welfare Data at Chapin Hall, while also supporting connections between this work and Youth Villages’ broader research, evaluation, implementation, and scaling priorities.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in psychology, public policy, public administration, social work, epidemiology, or a related social or behavioral science field is required, with 5+ years of related experience.
• Strong expertise in quantitative research methods, study design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of complex observational data required.
• Demonstrated ability to critically evaluate research questions, analytic approaches, and the strength and limitations of evidence required.
• Experience working with large administrative or longitudinal datasets preferred.
• Understanding of implementation science, applied research methods, program evaluation, and/or continuous improvement required.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-partner initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities required.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously required.
• Ability to build productive relationships with researchers, organizational leaders, practitioners, and government or public-system partners required.
• Experience teaching, training, mentoring, or facilitating learning for adult audiences preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills, including the ability to translate complex quantitative findings for non-technical audiences required.
• Experience working with child welfare or other public human-services systems strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Provide strategic and scientific leadership.
• Support evidence use and public-system partnerships.
• Lead complex sponsored research partnerships and projects.
• Strengthen organizational capacity to use evidence.
• Connect evidence across organizational priorities.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug Coverage and Vision
• 401(k)
• Time off:
  • 2 week paid vacation (full-time) / 1 week paid vacation (part-time)
  • 12 paid sick days per year
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave
• Mileage & Cell Phone Reimbursement (when applicable)
• Tuition reimbursement and licensure supervision
• Growth & development through continuous training
• Clinical and administrative advancement opportunities
• *Benefits are excluded for variable status employees.