Evaluation & Research Scientist for STEM Education

University of Chicago; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Chicago seeks an Evaluation and Research Scientist to lead program evaluation and research projects focused on kindergarten–adult STEM education, emphasizing high school and postsecondary data science and AI education. The role reports to the Director of Outlier Research and Evaluation and collaborates with senior researchers, funders, and partner organizations.

This role involves managing multiple stages of the research process, including literature reviews, instrument

Qualifications

• Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Responsibilities

• Leads research and program evaluation projects related to STEM, data science, and AI education, while also supporting other projects across the team's research and evaluation portfolio.
• Manages program evaluation projects, including evaluation design, data collection planning, instrument development, analysis planning, reporting, and partner communication.
• Collaborates with senior researchers, research staff, DSI colleagues, funders, and partner organizations to design, implement, and disseminate research and evaluation work.
• Contributes to the development of evaluation frameworks, logic models, research questions, data collection strategies, analysis plans, and reporting structures.
• Leads or substantially contributes to IRB submissions, amendments, continuing reviews, and related compliance processes.
• Contributes to funding strategy and proposal development, including identifying relevant funding opportunities, drafting research and evaluation plans, developing scopes of work, and preparing proposal materials for grants, contracts, and sponsored projects.
• Drafts or contributes to proposal materials, including statements of need, background sections, project descriptions, research and evaluation activities, timelines, deliverables, and descriptions of organizational capacity or prior work.
• Serves as a resource to colleagues on research and evaluation procedures, data collection, analysis, reporting, IRB processes, and proposal development.
• Presents research findings at meetings and conferences, as well as to funding agencies. Conducts literature reviews. Develop and maintain liaisons and effective working relations with groups and individuals, agencies, and the public to encourage cooperative management strategies or to develop information and interpret findings.
• Guides data collection, evaluation and analysis. Designs and manages databases. Writes reports, articles and manuscripts.
• Performs other related tasks as needed.

Skills

IRB submissions

Funding proposals

Grant writing

Mixed-methods

Research leadership

Data analysis

Survey design

Interview protocols

Report writing

Stakeholder communication

Project management

Data management

Team collaboration

SPSS

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

SPSS

R

Stata

NVivo

Job description

The University of Chicago seeks an Evaluation and Research Scientist to lead program evaluation and research projects focused on kindergarten–adult STEM education, emphasizing high school and postsecondary data science and AI education. The role reports to the Director of Outlier Research and Evaluation and collaborates with senior researchers, funders, and partner organizations.

This role involves managing multiple stages of the research process, including literature reviews, instrument