Job Description:

• Serve as principal investigator on criminal justice research and evaluation proposals
• Design rigorous process, outcome, and impact evaluations of justice programs
• Lead studies in priority areas such as drone-as-first-responder programs, gang and organized-crime interventions, and elder abuse and neglect
• Lead data collection with justice agencies, including administrative records and fieldwork
• Oversee analysis, human-subjects protections, and data security
• Write research narratives, methods, and dissemination plans
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to WIL proposals when you authorize naming

Requirements:

• Track record leading criminal justice research or program evaluations
• Peer-reviewed publications or major evaluation reports in criminology or justice policy
• Experience with justice agency data and human-subjects (IRB) processes
• Strong quantitative and/or mixed-methods skills
• Comfortable as a project-based contract collaborator; remote US
• Prior federal justice research award as PI or co-PI
• Randomized or quasi-experimental evaluation experience
• Research experience on policing technology (e.g., drones), gangs and organized crime, or elder abuse and neglect
• PhD preferred (criminology, criminal justice, sociology, or related field)

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