Senior Research Manager, Sponsored Research

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create and oversee learning agendas for sponsored research initiatives.

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to identify key questions, analyses, evidence needs, and major milestones.

• Ensure that projects inform strategic, programmatic, policy, or practice decisions.

• Offer scientific guidance on research inquiries, analytic strategies, interpretation, and the proper application of findings.

• Assess analytic methodologies, assumptions, results, and limitations.

• Review reports, dashboards, visualizations, and various other outputs.

• Partner with Youth Villages teams and state and local collaborators to pinpoint strategic questions that can be addressed through research and administrative data.

• Aid in the interpretation and dissemination of findings through presentations, reports, publications, conferences, and other venues.

• Facilitate data-sharing processes and the onboarding of new jurisdiction partners.

• Promote cross-jurisdiction learning and the establishment of communities of practice.

• Coordinate efforts across Youth Villages teams, external researchers, public-system partners, and collaborators.

• Manage project plans, timelines, deliverables, dependencies, communications, and multiple workstreams.

• Lead partnership check-ins and evaluate the effectiveness and progress of partnerships.

• Create learning opportunities, facilitation, coaching, tools, and resources to enhance evidence-informed decision-making.

• Support the application of the EDGE framework and other structured methodologies.

• Connect research, evaluation, implementation, scaling, and system-change initiatives.

• Coordinate overlapping research questions, timelines, evidence products, interpretation, and dissemination.

• Synthesize findings across projects to guide broader organizational strategy and learning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A doctorate in psychology, public policy, public administration, social work, epidemiology, or a related social or behavioral science field is mandatory.

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

• In-depth knowledge of quantitative research methods, study design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of complex observational data.

• Proven ability to critically assess research questions, analytic methods, and the strengths and weaknesses of evidence.

• Experience with large administrative or longitudinal datasets is preferred.

• Familiarity with implementation science, applied research methods, program evaluation, and/or continuous improvement.

• Demonstrated success in managing complex, multi-partner initiatives involving diverse stakeholders and competing priorities.

• Exceptional project management and organizational capabilities, with the ability to juggle multiple workstreams simultaneously.

• Capacity to cultivate productive relationships with researchers, organizational leaders, practitioners, and government or public-system partners.

• Experience in teaching, training, mentoring, or facilitating learning for adult audiences is preferred.

• Outstanding written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills, including the ability to convey complex quantitative findings to non-technical audiences.

• Experience with child welfare or other public human-services systems is strongly preferred.

• Work must be conducted from a secure, private home office with a reliable high-speed internet connection.

• Must be able to maintain a stationary seated position for prolonged periods.

• Frequent and continuous use of hands, wrists, and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other standard office equipment is required.

• Continuous near vision is necessary for reading computer screens and documents.

• Constant ability to hear and speak clearly during meetings and phone calls is essential.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug Coverage, and Vision.

• 401(k) plan.

• Two weeks of paid vacation (for full-time employees) or one week (for part-time employees).

• Twelve paid sick days per year.

• Eleven paid holidays.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Mileage and Cell Phone Reimbursement (where applicable).

• Tuition reimbursement and supervision for licensure.

• Opportunities for growth and development through ongoing training.

• Clinical and administrative advancement opportunities.