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Graduate Student RA, UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity

The Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of Washington is seeking a graduate research assistant to assist with ongoing evaluation and research projects, primarily the assessment of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. CERSE conducts research, evaluation, and consulting on diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. We are a highly collaborative team committed to increasing the participation of people from systemically marginalized groups in STEM education and careers. Find out more about the CERSE at http://depts.washington.edu/cerse/

Ideally, the position will start as an hourly appointment for 20-40 hours in late summer 2021 so that the candidate can train with the current RA. The position will continue through the 2021-2022 academic year pending satisfactory work performance and grant funding availability. The RA will report to the Director of CERSE. Duties include the following:

 

Responsibilities:

· Contribute to high quality data collection, data management, and analysis;

· Manage assigned research and evaluation tasks, which may include coordinating with participating institutions, conducting literature reviews, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, and writing reports;

· Manage assigned data collection tasks, including creating and distributing surveys and compiling data from a number of stakeholder groups;

· Work collaboratively with CERSE staff on other related projects as needed;

· Maintain organized project files and coordinate with collaborators within and outside of CERSE;

 

Desired Qualifications:

· Excellent data analysis, writing, and oral communication skills;

· Excellent organization skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities;

· Experience using quantitative and qualitative methodologies to collect and analyze data (particularly regression analysis, conducting interviews, and telling stories with data);

· Experience using computer software to perform statistical analyses and data management (particularly SPSS and Stata)

· Ability to synthesize and integrate information from multiple data sources;

· Experience in effectively communicating research results to a wide variety of audiences;

· Commitment to furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion;

· Currently enrolled graduate student at the University of Washington. Preference will be given to candidates from related fields, such as: Sociology, Education, Statistics, Economics, Psychology, Gender Studies, and Anthropology

 

Required Qualifications:

· Currently enrolled graduate student at the University of Washington.

The academic year position includes standard GRSA salary, health insurance, and tuition remission.

 

To apply:

The application deadline is August 9, 2021 (11:59 PM PT). To apply, combine a detailed letter of interest and your resume or CV in a single PDF document with the file name [LastName][FirstName]_NCWIT (example: LitzlerLiz_NCWIT). Using the subject “NCWIT RA application”, please email your combined application materials to: Liz Litzler, Director, Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity, elitzler@uw.edu

 

 

Liz Litzler

Director and Affiliate Assistant Professor

Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity

elitzler@uw.edu

Graduate Student Data Analysts, UNAIDS/UW

The Joint United Nations AIDS Programme (UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland) supports countries to produce key epidemiological data every year and requests countries to submit their most recent programmatic data through the Global AIDS Monitoring system. There are a number of complementary analyses to expand the use of those data or to improve the modelled estimates.

In cooperation with the UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), UNAIDS is providing remote data analysis opportunities to UW graduate students to contribute to important short-term research projects, benefit from UNAIDS and UW mentorship and training, build international networks, and develop transferable skills. Selected students will be assigned a project, a UNAIDS mentor, and UW faculty advisor. Preference will be given to students who have experience with HIV research and quantitative data analysis, as well as past experience working on teams with remote colleagues. The deliverables for these projects would be brief 5-10 page summaries of the findings of the project with relevant informative graphics or tables as necessary. Any results or products developed for these projects are public goods. UNAIDS reserves the rights to include them in their reports. Students reserve the right to further pursue and publish results for their own purposes.

Current projects offered include:

Medical male circumcision: Triangulating self-reported age of medical male circumcision from population-based surveys with programme data

Supporting country teams to understand the causes of new child infections using the Spectrum stacked bar tool

Barriers to reaching the first 95: Data analysis and synthesis on access to and uptake of HIV testing services

National Population Size Estimates of Sex Workers, Men who Have Sex with Men, People who Inject Drugs and Transgender People

Association between punitive laws and reported key population size estimates at country level.

Joint UNAIDS-IAPAC Fast-Track Cities Project: analysis and synthesis of data on the HIV epidemic and response in 15 participating cities

If interested, please contact Danielle Terrill (terrill1@uw.edu) with a cover letter, resume/CV, availability, and which project(s) you are interested in by August 16, 2021.