Senior Program Evaluator – Criminal Justice
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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