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Social Policy Research Associates, a growing and dynamic research, evaluation, and technical assistance services firm engaged in policy analysis of workforce development, employment training, education, philanthropy, youth development, health, and other human service programs, is seeking applications for multiple full-time employment positions. An Equal Opportunity Employer, SPR is an organization that values a staff with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
Qualitative and Quantative Research Associates
Research Associates-Workforce Development Division
Research Associates-Youth, Education and Philanthropy Division
Facilitation, Training and Capacity-Building Specialists
Senior Quantitative Research Associate
Operations Manager
Position Title: Qualitative and Quantative Research Associates (1-2 positions)
Division: Workforce Development and Youth, Education and Philantrophy Divisions
Location: Oakland, CA
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) is a growing and dynamic research, evaluation, and technical assistance services firm engaged in policy analysis of workforce development, employment training, education, philanthropy, youth development, health, and other human service programs. We are currently seeking applications for full-time researchers to support our Workforce Development and Youth, Education & Philanthropy Divisions. An Equal Opportunity Employer, SPR is an organization that values a staff with diverse perspectives and backgrounds
Required Qualifications:
- Graduate-level degree in one of a variety of disciplines, including economics, public policy, sociology, education, psychology, and other social sciences.
- Demonstrated experience in research methods (including conducting interviews, focus groups, site visits, survey design & analysis, social network analysis, etc.). Experience with random assignment studies is a plus.
- Experience with SAS or other statistical software packages, survey design and development, qualitative research, or other technical research skills, as well as experience conducting analyses of social programs is a plus.
- Experience with public policy, labor issues, and workforce development systems specifically is strongly desired.
- Excellent writing, oral communications, and organizational skills are also essential.
- Preference will be given to those with experience working with racially or socioeconomically diverse populations.
- Spanish fluency is a plus.
Job Description:
Specific responsibilities will depend on qualifications, but may include a mix of the following:
- Conduct qualitative, case study research based on telephone interviews, focus groups, and/or site visits to employment training, youth, or other human service programs nationwide.
- Assist in the development, administration, and analysis of surveys, and the maintenance or analysis of other quantitative data.
- Analyze data and prepare evaluation reports for government, foundation, or other non-profit clients.
Compensation:
- Salary is commensurate with experience. SPR has a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work hours, generous paid-time-off, a retirement plan, and medical and dental insurance.
- SPR is an employee-owned company.
How to Apply: No Phone Calls Please. This position will remain open until filled. Send resume and cover letter to Eloisa Dellosa: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1426, Oakland, CA 94612. Fax: (510) 763-1599. Email: jobs@spra.com. Cover letter required. Refer to Job #PA1-10.
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Position Title: Research Associates (3-4 positions)
Division: Workforce Development
Location: Oakland, CA
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) is a growing and dynamic research, evaluation, and technical assistance services firm engaged in policy analysis of workforce development, employment training, education, philanthropy, youth development, health, and other human service programs. We are currently seeking applications for full-time employment within our Workforce Development Division. We are specifically seeking mid- to senior-level researchers with demonstrated experience designing and carrying out qualitative and quantitative research studies. An Equal Opportunity Employer, SPR is an organization that values a staff with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
Required Qualifications:
- PhD (or MA + 3-4 years direct experience) in public policy, economics, sociology, psychology, education, and other social sciences.
- Demonstrated experience in research methods (including conducting interviews, focus groups, site visits, survey design & analysis, social network analysis, etc.). Background in designing and carrying out random assignment studies a strong plus.
- Strong understanding of workforce development systems generally, and the Workforce Investment Act specifically. Experience with specific U.S. Department of Labor-funded projects (e.g., YouthBuild, STEM, Prisoner Reentry Programs, etc.) is also a plus.
- Expertise in workforce development issues, particularly in employment and training efforts targeted towards special populations (e.g., ex-offenders, older workers, dislocated workers, migrant & seasonal farmworkers, disabled populations, etc.).
- Experience with project management, including oversight of staff and project budgets is a plus.
- Excellent writing, oral communications, and organizational skills are essential.
- Preference will be given to those with experience working with racially or socioeconomically diverse populations.
- Spanish fluency is a plus.
Job Description:
Specific responsibilities will depend on qualifications, but may include a mix of the following:
- Conduct qualitative, case study research based on telephone interviews, focus groups, and/or site visits to employment training, youth, or other human service programs nationwide.
- Assist in the development, administration, and analysis of surveys, and the maintenance or analysis of other quantitative data.
- Analyze data and prepare evaluation reports for government clients.
- Provide on-site and virtual training and technical assistance.
- Depending on experience, management of evaluations and/or substantial tasks within evaluations.
Compensation:
- Salary is commensurate with experience. SPR has a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work hours, generous paid-time-off, a retirement plan, and medical and dental insurance.
- SPR is an employee-owned company.
How to Apply: No Phone Calls Please. This position will remain open until filled. Send resume and cover letter to Eloisa Dellosa: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1426, Oakland, CA 94612. Fax: (510) 763-1599. Email: jobs@spra.com. Cover letter required. Refer to Job #WF-RA10.
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Position Title: Research Associates (1-2 positions)
Division: Youth, Education and Philanthropy
Location: Oakland, CA
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) is a growing and dynamic research, evaluation, and technical assistance services firm engaged in policy analysis of workforce development, employment training, education, philanthropy, youth development, community health, and other human service programs. We are currently seeking applications for full-time employment within our Youth, Education & Philanthropy Division. We are specifically seeking mid- to senior-level researchers with demonstrated experience designing and carrying out qualitative research studies. An Equal Opportunity Employer, SPR is an organization that values a staff with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
Required Qualifications:
- PhD (or MA + 3-4 years direct experience) in education, public policy, economics, sociology, psychology, and other social sciences.
- Demonstrated experience in research methods (including conducting interviews, focus groups, site visits, survey design and analysis, social network analysis, logic modeling, etc.).
- Experience with project management, including oversight of staff and project budgets is a strong plus.
- Expertise in evaluations of philanthropic grantmaking highly desired, as is expertise in leadership development, organizational development and field building; domestic violence and/or gender-focused programming, youth development and organizing, and/or community health.
- Excellent writing, oral communications, and organizational skills are essential.
- Preference will be given to those with experience working with racially or socioeconomically diverse populations.
- Spanish fluency is a plus.
Job Description:
Specific responsibilities will depend on qualifications, but may include a mix of the following:
- Conduct qualitative, case study research based on telephone interviews, focus groups, and/or site visits to employment training, youth, or other human service programs nationwide.
- Oversee implementation of surveys, including survey design and analysis.
- Analyze data and prepare evaluation reports for government, foundation, or other non-profit clients.
- Provide on-site and virtual training and technical assistance.
- Depending on experience, management of small-scale evaluations and/or substantial tasks within large-scale evaluations.
Compensation:
- Salary is commensurate with experience. SPR has a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work hours, generous paid-time-off, a retirement plan, and medical and dental insurance.
- SPR is an employee-owned company.
How to Apply: No Phone Calls Please. This position will remain open until filled. Send resume and cover letter to Eloisa Dellosa:: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1426, Oakland, CA 94612. Fax: (510) 763-1599. Email: jobs@spra.com. Cover letter required. Refer to Job #YEPRA10.
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Position Title: Facilitation, Training and Capacity-Building Specialists (1-2 positions)
Location: Oakland, CA
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) is a growing and dynamic research, evaluation, and technical assistance services firm engaged in policy analysis of workforce development, employment training, education, philanthropy, youth development, health, and human services programs. We are currently seeking dynamic individuals at multiple levels to join our training and technical assistance team, which serves a range of public and non-profit clients (including, workforce training providers, state and city governments, philanthropic organizations, other non-profit organizations, etc.). The U.S. Department of Labor is one of our major clients, thus many of our technical assistance projects focus on workforce and career development for disadvantaged populations.
SPR offers a full spectrum of modern methods for training facilitation and content delivery. Our trainers specialize in both in-person and virtual training, including use of tools to guide facilitated processes, graphic facilitation and recording, online tutorials, webinars, and video. We provide customized support to individual organizations and multi-agency alliances, as well as provide technical assistance for multi-site national projects and initiatives. An Equal Opportunity Employer, SPR is an organization that values a staff with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
SPR is looking for technical assistance providers with demonstrated experience providing training and technical assistance, especially for multi-site initiatives and national projects.
Required Qualifications:
- M.A. and 1-3 years experience (or a BA with 5+ years direct experience)
- Demonstrated training and technical assistance experience as follows: (1) conducting online training (e.g., webinar) experience; (2) experience managing large-scale events and conferences; (3) coaching, training, and process facilitation experience; and (4) developing issue briefs, guides, or toolkits.
- Qualitative and/or quantitative research skills.
- Excellent writing, oral communications, and organizational skills.
- Travel is required.
- Preference will be given to those with experience working with racially or socioeconomically diverse populations.
- Spanish fluency is a plus.
Job Description:
Duties will include a combination of the following, depending on experience:
- Contribute to technical assistance and training projects that include the design and implementation of workshops, retreats, conferences, and webinars.
- Contribute to the development and/or support the design of technical assistance materials and presentations (e.g. toolkits, online curricula, issue briefs, and other resources).
- Coordinate and/or facilitate in-person and virtual meetings and deliver content-based trainings .
- Collect data through on-site meetings and trainings, telephone interviews, and document and online resource reviews.
Compensation:
- Salary is commensurate with experience. SPR has a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work hours, generous paid-time-off, a retirement plan, and medical and dental insurance.
- SPR is an employee-owned company.
How to Apply: No Phone Calls Please. This position will remain open until filled. Send resume and cover letter to Eloisa Dellosa: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1426, Oakland, CA 94612. Fax: (510) 763-1599. Email: jobs@spra.com. Cover letter required. Refer to Job #TAT10-J.
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Position Title: Senior Quantitative Research Associate (1 position)
Location: Oakland, CA
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Social Policy Research Associates is a growing and dynamic research, evaluation, and technical assistance services firm engaged in policy analysis of workforce development, employment training, education, philanthropy, youth development, health, and other human service programs. We are currently seeking a senior quantitative research associate with potential to manage medium and large-scale workforce development evaluations.
Required Qualifications:
- Completion of a Ph.D. degree in the social sciences and strong research skills are required. Those whose advanced training is in Economics are especially encouraged to apply, but those with a Ph.D. in other social science disciplines will also be considered.
- Experience with applied labor economics and econometrics highly desired.
- Experience with SAS or other statistical software packages, survey design and development, qualitative research, or other technical research skills, as well as experience conducting analyses of social programs and engaging in proposal writing are also desirable.
- Excellent writing, oral communications, and organizational skills are essential.
- Preference will be given to those with experience working with racially or socioeconomically diverse populations.
- Spanish fluency is a plus.
Job Description:
Specific responsibilities will depend on qualifications, but may include a mix of the following:
- Design and conduct quantitative research based on administrative data on program participants, survey data, or public-use data.
- Manage databases and conduct statistical analyses using SAS or other statistical software packages.
- Develop, administer, and analyze surveys of program administrators and/or participants.
- Conduct qualitative case study research and analysis based on site visits to employment training, youth, or other human service programs nationwide
- Analyze data from multiple data sources and prepare evaluation reports for government and non-profit clients.
- Participate in, or lead, proposal writing and business development.
Compensation:
- Salary is commensurate with experience. SPR has a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work hours, generous paid-time-off, a retirement plan, and medical and dental insurance.
- SPR is an employee-owned company.
How to Apply: No Phone Calls Please. This position will remain open until filled. Send resume and cover letter to Eloisa Dellosa:1330 Broadway, Suite 1426; Oakland, CA; 94612. Fax: (510) 763-1599. Email: jobs@spra.com. Cover letter required. Please note source of job posting. Refer to Job #SrQTRA10.
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Position Title: Operations Manager (1 position)
Location: Oakland, CA
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) is a growing and dynamic research, evaluation, and technical assistance services firm engaged in policy analysis of workforce development, employment training, education, philanthropy, youth development, community health, and other human service programs. We are currently conducting a search for a seasoned, talented, and highly effective Operations Manager to manage key processes within the Operations Department, with a specific focus on contracts, technology, and benefits. This position is responsible for managing contracts, office technology, website maintenance, and benefits, and assisting with human resource administration, as well as providing high level day-to-day support to the staff. This position will directly support and report to the Director of Administration. An Equal Opportunity Employer, SPR is an organization that values a staff with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
Required Qualifications:
• BA degree
• 4-5 years of experience supporting a mid-size fast-paced entrepreneurial or start-up environment
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, works effectively in a team, maintains composure in stressful situations, and works effectively in a deadline-driven environment
• High proficiency with MS Office applications
Additional Desired Qualifications:
Qualified candidates will also have specialized capacity in one or more of the areas below:
- Experience with contracts management, especially government contracts a strong plus
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience researching benefits and managing benefits administration
- Experience with human resource management
- Experience trouble-shooting technological problems, including computer-related issues
- Strong organizational skills, a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, and the ability to thrive on managing multiple tasks
- Proactive, flexible and able to work as part of a team
Job Description:
Specific responsibilities will depend on qualifications, but may include a mix of the following:
- Managing and overseeing contracts
- Developing new contracts with government agencies (Federal, state, local) and foundations
- Monitoring and modifying existing contracts
- Information Technology planning and implementation
- Monitor incoming tech support requests from employees and supervise weekly onsite IT consultant visits
- Provide strategic recommendations to address issues
- Update and maintain technology inventory list to ensure accountability of all company assets
- Project lead for all technology research and integration of systems
- Website Maintenance
- Benefits
- Research benefit plans
- Serve as liaison to brokers
- Provide support to staff on benefits, and respond to employee benefit plan inquiries
- Manage enrollment and termination of benefit plans
- Human Resources
- Administration of HR paperwork
- On-boarding of new employees
- Post job advertisements
- Oversee updates to staff scheduling system
- This is a unique opportunity to apply strong operations management skills in a dynamic environment, receive direct exposure to innovative small business planning, and to interact and work with a high-performing group of people committed to social justice.
Compensation:
- Salary is between $50,000 and $65,000, commensurate with experience. SPR has a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work hours, generous paid-time-off, a retirement plan, and medical and dental insurance.
- SPR is an employee-owned company.
How to Apply: No Phone Calls Please. Send resume and cover letter to Eloisa Dellosa by September 7, 2010: 1330 Broadway, Suite 1426, Oakland, CA 94612. Fax: (510) 763-1599. Email: jobs@spra.com. Cover letter required. Refer to Job #OM-10.
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