[Jobs] Fwd: Post doc - Center for Employment Equity - UMass Amherst

[Leora Lawton]

Post-Doc Opportunity



The Center for Employment Equity,
<https://www.umass.edu/eeodatanet/center-employment-equity> University of
Massachusetts, Amherst is searching for a Post-Doc researcher.  The
position has primary responsibility to manage the development of a user
friendly data platform to give citizens – job seekers, economic developers,
employers, journalists, activists, etc. – access to EEOC data on employment
quality and discrimination complaints. Tasks will include developing a
series of reports on employment equity and a linked web based data platform
aimed at broad dissemination of employment equity data to various publics.
The core data for this project are contemporary employer reports on private
and public sector employers generated by the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission as well as individual discrimination complaints to
the EEOC. Initial work on developing the data portal and initial reports
are nearing completion. Future work will focus primarily on both policy
oriented and basic science research and research dissemination. You will
work closely with the project PIs and one or more Ph.D. level research
assistants. Current projects include studies of LGBT and sexual harassment
discrimination complaints, employment diversity in Silicon Valley Tech
firms, Black and Hispanic access to living wage jobs. Funding is currently
available for two years.



Qualifications: We are looking for a person with strong statistical
analysis and writing skills, experience with data management, the ability
to coordinate complex projects and work independently, and a willingness to
remain in the position for two years. Ph.D. in social science and/or public
policy with a focus on employment equity preferred.

Position: Salary $60,000, plus excellent benefits.

Please respond By April 15, 2017 to Steve Boutcher (boutcher at umass.edu)
with a CV and letter of application describing how you meet the job
qualifications, and a list a references.
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