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Research Assistant

Posted: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017

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Employer: Barrier Busting in the Detroit’s HOPE Village | University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Employer Website: http://www.focushope.edu/
Position Type: Part Time
Local: This position is located in Michigan

Description

 

Project Overview:

Sometimes small barriers, solvable with relatively minor amounts of funding, present major obstacles for those living in poverty. For many Detroit residents, these barriers prevent them from making progress toward their goals of economic self-sufficiency.

Through a partnership between the Ross School of Business and Focus: HOPE, a nonprofit civil and human rights organization based in Detroit, this project team will introduce and evaluate a “Barrier Buster” pilot program that provides small grants to address these challenges. This new approach is intended to promote economic self-sufficiency among low-income Detroit residents, and has the potential to inform programming in the region and across the country.

  • Academic researchers on the project are both from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. The Principal Investigator (PI) is Michael Gordon, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Business Administration, and the Co-PI is Noel Tichy, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
  • Community partner representatives and Co-Investigators are all from Focus: HOPE. They include Debbie Fisher, Director; Stephanie Moore, Youth Education Program Director; and Julie Phenis, Operations Manager.

Source: https://www.detroiturc.org/news/news-updates/271-poverty-solutions-awards.html

Duration and Schedule:

  • October 16, 2017 – March 2, 2018
  • Approximately 15 hours per week. Hours are flexible and will vary over the course of the project.

 

Pay:  $20/hour

 

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Experience conducting quantitative data analysis
  • Excellent academic writing skills
  • Graduate work in relevant field (e.g., Education, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work) strongly preferred
  • Experience conducting qualitative data analysis preferred
  • Experience participating in community-based research preferred

 

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

  1. Manage project data.
  2. Assist research team with development of data analysis plan.
  3. Lead analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
  4. Lead writing of final project report.
  5. Assist in preparing manuscript for publication.

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