Senior Program Officer - National Academies, Social/ Behavioral Sciences

The Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) focuses the knowledge, analytical tools, and methods of the behavioral and social sciences on some of the nation's most pressing issues in efforts to understand them and to contribute to their solution. Our areas of expertise include (but are not limited to) anthropology, child development, demography, economics, education, history, law, gerontology, linguistics, political science, psychology, sociology, and statistics.

The Senior Program Officer to the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and the Committee on the Human-Systems Integration will be part of a team designing and implementing a multi-year study evaluating the research program of a government agency focused on research to aid those who have disabilities and rehabilitation needs. This position entails learning the administrative procedures of the NRC and managing the work of an interdisciplinary committee of volunteer experts. Managing this work will include working closely with the committee chair to plan the project, organizing regular committee meetings and public workshops, participating in planning agendas, writing briefing documents, participating in drafting outlines and chapters for book-length committee report, and managing public interest about the committee's independent review of a high-visibility topic.

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