Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with research teams to design, execute, and manage health and human services research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods
• Perform background research, collect data, conduct analysis, and prepare reports
• Develop recruitment and data collection materials, such as project descriptions, survey instruments, focus group discussion guides, and interview guides in both English and Spanish, as needed
• Conduct literature reviews, environmental scans, and background research
• Coordinate stakeholder recruitment, schedule interviews, assemble and distribute various materials, including study supplies and data collection forms, to field or clinical sites
• Prepare training materials; lead training sessions for data collectors, and support other data quality assurance tasks in both English and Spanish, as needed
• Collect and review data, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, obtained through observations, interviews, medical record abstraction, or other sources according to established guidelines
• Participate in or lead site visits, focus groups, or interviews in both English and Spanish, as needed
• Lead and perform primary and secondary data cleaning, quality assurance, and quality checks to ensure accuracy
• Code qualitative data and conduct thematic analysis
• Conduct in-depth data analysis
• Draft and contribute to preparing client deliverable reports, case studies, briefs, memos, dashboards, data visualization, and presentations; written materials may be in both English and Spanish, as needed
• Manage correspondence and project communications under the guidance of the Project Director
• Work with a high degree of independence under direct guidance from the Project Director, collaboratively with project teams, and/or as a task lead
• Meet tight-deadlines in this project-based, deliverable-driven, outcomes-focused environment
• Support the growth of 2M by assisting with proposals and business development activities
• Support other tasks as assigned by management

Position Requirements:

• Master’s degree in Sociology, Social Science, Public Policy, Public Health, or related field
• Minimum of 3 years research experience, prefer at least 1 year of federal research contracting experience or related experience
• Must have excellent writing skills to qualify, as most of our work products culminate into a written document or material
• Strong oral communication, planning, and organizational skills
• Must have intellectual curiosity
• Demonstrate flexibility, diligence, and ownership of work
• Ability to self-motivate and work well independently and with other team members
• Detailed orientated
• Capacity to work in unfamiliar subject matter areas
• Ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks, work under strict deadlines, and follow through with commitments
• Proven proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and general IT systems and application aptitude
• Experience with SharePoint, Qualtrics, Tableau, NVivo, ATLAS ti, SPSS, SAS, and/or STATA is a preferred
• To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require now, or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status