[Jobs] Position at Columbia Population Research Center

[Leora Lawton]

Research Scientist

Columbia Population Research Center

August 8, 2012



The Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) seeks a Research Scientist
(RS) to join the Center and assist in managing and carrying out a number of
its major research initiatives. CPRC is a multidisciplinary community of
scholars unified by a commitment to research that addresses the health and
wellbeing of vulnerable populations in the context of local and global
inequalities and that informs policies affecting those populations. CPRC
promotes research in four signature areas: children, youth, and families;
HIV/AIDS and reproductive health; immigration/migration; and urbanism.



The primary responsibility of the RS will be oversight and implementation of
a recent major grant award from the Robin Hood Foundation for CPRC to create
one or more measures of poverty and disadvantage for New York City that
provide a better guide to grant making than the federal and city official
measures of poverty; and to research the most effective way to survey the
needs of New Yorkers, especially those who are poor and near poor-possibly
leading to development of the first Internet‐based survey infrastructure of
its kind. The RS will serve as project director on this initiative and work
primarily on the development of a poverty standard and survey infrastructure
as the project goes into the field in the fall of 2012.



The second major responsibility of the RS will be oversight, management, and
participation in CPRC’s major grants from the NICHD and Russell Sage
Foundation on the impacts of the Great Recession on Fragile Families. The
analyses will be based on data from The Fragile Families Study (FFS), which
is particularly well-suited for studying the short run effects of
unemployment and the Great Recession on family functioning and child
well-being. The FFS is a nationally representative, longitudinal, birth
cohort survey of children born between 1998 and 2000 in large US cities
(population of 200,000 or more), with a large oversample of births to
unmarried couples-a very disadvantaged population. The RS’ responsibility
will be helping execute the research promised under our NICHD and Russell
Sage grants, and work with senior staff and affiliates at CPRC to produce a
monograph on that research, as well as associated products, including but
not limited to six research/policy briefs distilling the research’s
findings for a wide audience.



The RS will also be responsible for a number of other key CPRC tasks,
including: (a) assisting in the management and administration of the above
grants and contracts; (b) supervising and collaborating with both senior and
junior CPRC researchers, staff, and students; (c) assisting in the
development of future grants to support CPRC; and (d) assist in efforts to
improve CPRC’s communication and dissemination efforts, including drafting
and editing of publications for policy and practice audiences.



All applicants must apply through the Columbia Recruitment of Academic
Personnel System (RAPS) in order for their candidacy to be considered by
following this link:

https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=56613





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