Associate I, Research Quality and Support

Responsibilities

• Foster a work environment that inspires excellence, values impact, encourages transparency, builds mutual trust and respect, embraces and values diversity, and is collaborative, caring, and compassionate.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records of research plan and proposal submissions in Microsoft SharePoint and related RQS research databases. Communicate and follow up with project teams to verify database accuracy and to collect added materials to ensure the completeness of RQS records.
• Schedule, collate and share materials, and initiate biweekly hybrid meetings with RQS subject matter leads, facilitating the discussion of previously assigned research projects. Also coordinate bi-monthly RQS leadership meetings to assess and update RQS staffing or operational practices.
• Compile selected RQS workflow and production metrics and draft preliminary reports reflecting Pew-wide research output and RQS' role in ensuring the highest quality standards of those products.
• Support the production or validation of select research efforts, for example, collecting and assembling datasets, checking statistical code from other researchers, analyzing data, writing policy summaries, and making tables, charts, interactives, maps, and memos.
• Synthesize research and conduct literature reviews on policy issues, such as international environment and conservation, fiscal and economic policy, health and human services, and safety and justice, to identify key trends and insights for pr

Benefits

Additional Information

The Strategy Portfolio within Program Pew's program unit consolidates all of the organization's programmatic activities into one department. Program organizes its work into five portfolios: Environment; Government Performance; Philadelphia; Scientific Advancement; and Strategy. The goal of the strategy portfolio within Program is to inform critical institutional decisions about Pew's programs, strengthen the design and implementation of Pew's work, and generate knowledge that advances Pew's program objectives. We pursue this goal by (1) enhancing the organization's efforts to generate ideas for new initiatives and larger bodies of work; (2) applying a wide range of planning approaches to help programs turn ideas into effective action; (3) using evaluation to improve program performance, inform decision-making, and support learning; (4) working with teams across the institution to help ensure Pew's research meets the organization's expressed standards for quality; (5) ensuring that staff has access to information that meets their needs to design, implement, and manage high-performing strategies, initiatives, and campaigns; and (6) collaborating with colleagues in preparing a wide range of planning and other types of documents for consideration by Pew's board of directors. Research Quality and Support Research quality and support (RQS) facilitates the research process across all Pew programs and projects. Staff help ensure the integrity and quality of all research outputs, including reports, surveys and polls, literature reviews, and data collection and analysis. This work involves taking a research concept from initial hypothesis and proposal through post-analysis data checks, fact checking, and peer review. RQS advises project teams on the best methodological or analytical approaches, datasets and, if appropriate, external vendors to achieve desired outcomes. RQS staff also provide direct research assistance, most commonly data collection and literature reviews, as required. Finally, RQS fosters a Pew research community that leverages and builds staff expertise, tools, and capacity across project teams and on a wide range of topics and disciplines. On behalf of projects, RQS coordinates with other Pew divisions and departments involved in the research process. The aim is to help ensure excellent, unimpeachable research outputs that advance Pew's program aims. Position Overview The Associate I will lead the intake and tracking of all research plans and proposals submitted to RQS. These tasks make up the operational core of Pew's research quality steps which includes responding to project team submissions, reviewing materials for completeness, scheduling, and documenting review discussions, and updating RQS' systems of record. The associate will also offer some direct research support through data quality checks, selected literature reviews, replicating key calculations, and reviewing data submissions. The associate will communicate with a wide range of stakeholders via Microsoft Teams and email, navigating concurrent requests while maintaining and keeping up-to-date accurate electronic records (i.e., SharePoint/Teams). The position, based in Pew's Washington, D.C., offices, reports to the senior officer, research quality, and support. The position participates in Pew's hybrid work program with core days in the office and the flexibility to telework the remaining days. Staff also enjoy four telework "flex weeks" per year.

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