Position Overview
Position Title : Research Director for the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA School of Law
Salary Range : A reasonable estimate for this position is $165,000-180,000
Application Window
Open Date : October 15, 2024
Next Review Date : Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024 at 11 : 59pm (Pacific Time)
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Final Date : Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024 at 11 : 59pm (Pacific Time)
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Position Description
The Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy (CHRLP or "the Center") at UCLA Law School is seeking a strategic, passionate, and experienced researcher to serve as its first Research Director.
The new Research Director will play a vital role in building the vision, expanding, managing, and executing the Center's research work, as well as its strategic collaboration and partnerships with reproductive health researchers across the nation.
The Center and its Approach
The Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy is a think tank and research center developing long-term, lasting solutions that advance all aspects of reproductive justice and address the current national crisis of abortion access.
We are lawyers, policy experts, scholars, and researchers who are working to solve America's reproductive justice crisis.
Our mission is to increase access to abortion and contraception, end racial and economic disparities in maternal health outcomes, support people who decide to build families, and dismantle the gender bias that limits reproductive justice.
The Center is committed to interdisciplinary research that has a direct impact on policy, legal, and narrative change. Our model bridges research and scholarship directly to action.
The Research Director Role
Vision and Strategy. The Research Director will play a significant role in building and diversifying the Center's research agenda and ensure it is making an impact on the most important reproductive health and justice topics today.
Research and Research Products. The Research Director will lead and conduct research projects and should be skilled in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research.
Strategic Partnership and Collaboration. The Research Director will help fulfill the Center's role to be a hub, connector, and amplifier for other people's research and linking researchers, advocates, policy makers, providers, and scholars.
Research Funding and Research Grant Management. The Research Director will work with the Executive Director to identify funding opportunities for Center research projects and secure research grants or contracts.
People and Project Management. The Research Director will supervise the Center's Research Data Analysts, research fellows, graduate student researchers, and research assistants.
Mentoring and Teaching. The Research Director will have the opportunity to mentor more junior researchers and PhD, Master's, and undergraduate students who serve as research assistants, fellows, and interns with the Center.
The Research Director will report to the Center's Executive Director. This is a full-time, year-round, non-tenure track academic position.
Qualifications
The minimum requirements for this position include : A doctorate or other terminal degree in a relevant field, at least eight years of social science research experience, and expertise on reproductive health and justice issues.
Application Instructions
Please apply online at https : / / recruit.apo.ucla.edu / JPF09919 by submitting pdf copies of a cover letter, current curriculum vitae, list of publications, and contact information for at least three professional references.
About UCLA
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.
Job Location
Los Angeles, CA
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