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Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students.  Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.

 Research Associate/Project Coordinator

This position is for a multi-year, mixed-methods evaluation of housing and community development effects on child and adult health and wellbeing.

Professors Rebekah Levine Coley and Samantha Teixeira of Boston
College are recruiting a full-time Project Coordinator to work on the 5-year Housing Opportunity
and Mobility Experiment (HOME) project. Preferred start date of June 1,
2025.

With funding from the National Institutes of Health, this project
evaluates how the redevelopment of a concentrated poverty public housing
development into a mixed-income community with quality housing, enhanced
services, and economic integration affects children's educational success and
children's and adults' mental, behavioral, and physical health.  Using an innovative multi-method,
quasi-experimental design, we are collecting longitudinal child and parent
surveys, biological data, direct environmental assessments, in depth
qualitative interviews and observations, and local and national administrative
data following 600 households (including children, youth, adults, and older
adults) over 5 years. The research team brings together a multidisciplinary and
highly effective group of scholars with specialization in economic and social
inequalities in child and parent wellbeing (Rebekah Levine Coley, Developmental
Psychology), community engaged research and neighborhood effects (Samantha
Teixeira, Social Work), biological stress measures (Amanda Tarullo, Child
Clinical Psychology), environmental assessments of housing quality (Gary Adamkiewicz,
Public Health and Engineering), and gerontology (Tina Matz, Social Work). The Project
Coordinator will be directly supervised by Principal Investigators Coley and
Teixeira at Boston College. Work will take place at Boston College and
at a community site in South Boston.

The Project Coordinator will assist with
all aspects of the project, including overseeing and engaging in participant recruitment,
data collection, and data management; providing support to field staff and
investigators; liaising with partner organizations; disseminating results; and supporting
project reporting requirements. This is an excellent position for a fluent
Spanish-speaking candidate with research and community engagement experience
(preferably with racially/ethnically diverse and economically marginalized
populations) who wishes to contribute to multi-methods research and
multi-disciplinary teamwork.  The
position will provide exceptional preparation for further graduate
training. 

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate participant recruitment, field staff assignments, and organization of data collection efforts.
• Work closely with the study team to ensure communication between community participants and research staff.
• Engage in survey, environmental, and qualitative interviewing data collection efforts.
• Develop and use data management systems to track outreach, recruitment, data collection, and distribution of research incentives (using REDCap and Excel).
• Support data cleaning, coding, and analysis (using Stata and NVivo software). Translate and transcribe study materials.
• Participate in weekly interdisciplinary project meetings, weekly supervision meetings with field staff and data collectors, and occasional community activities and advisory board meetings.
• Support development of research products, including journal articles, conference presentations, policy briefs, and grant proposals. Create accessible materials to translate research findings to community audiences.
• Assist with grant administration and management, including human subjects and project reporting compliance.

Competitive salary commensurate with relevant experience.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in psychology, social work, public health, sociology, or related field
• Minimum of 1 year of research experience
• Demonstrated interest/experience in community settings, preferably with diverse populations and/or in low resource settings; comfort engaging in home visits in underserved public housing community context.
• Exceptional organization and communication skills, ability to work independently and proactively, maturity and strong commitment to teamwork
• Experience with data collection (quantitative/qualitative), data coding and management, and data collection/statistical software (STATA, RedCAP, NVivo, Excel) preferred; willingness to learn essential
• Desire to build skills and expertise in policy-focused and community-based research and research translation
• Capacity to travel to and work in South Boston public housing setting, including home visits
• Successful completion of Massachusetts Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) check.
• Fluency in Spanish required