Assistant Director / Research Associate Professor – Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, Population Research Center

The Population Research Center (PRC) is a program of the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (IMS) within the College of Urban and Public Affairs. The PRC fulfills statutory requirements under the Oregon State Data Center program and the Oregon Population Estimates program. In addition, the PRC works with local and state government and nonprofit agencies to conduct demographic analysis that supports public and private decision making, such as school enrollment forecasts, analysis of trends and issues related to aging and public health, housing needs, and small geography population estimates. The PRC also illustrates these data using GIS and other spatial and statistical analytical techniques. The PRC works with other staff at the IMS to offer data analysis to a variety of public and private decision makers. Finally, the PRC supports research in other parts of the college and university by offering demographic analysis components of larger projects.

The principal duties of the successful candidate will be to lead demographic research in support of the missions of the IMS and the PRC. The successful candidate will also assist the IMS director in program development, human resource development and management, and strategic planning for the IMS and the PRC.

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