As the only county in the United States named after Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most influential civil rights leaders in our nation’s history, King County is home to diverse and vibrant communities, with residents representing countries from around the world. It is a region with increasing diversity that cherishes the artistic and social traditions of many cultures. These qualities make King County one of the nation’s best places to live, work, and play.

Despite King County’s overall economic success, the region has stark inequities by race and geography. King County has adopted a pro-equity agenda aimed at advancing regional change and is developing the systems and standards necessary to achieve better outcomes for all of our residents, regardless of their race or income. Together, we’re changing the way government delivers service and winning national recognition as a model of excellence, building on shared values of equity and social justice, employee engagement, innovation, and continuous improvement.

King County is seeking a team-oriented individual to provide growth trend analysis and demographic services to inform data-informed decision making and long range land use planning. This position requires broad vision, insight, and a balance of policy, technical and interpersonal skills.

The Demographic Planner is part of the Regional Planning work group that coordinates King County’s long-range planning efforts under the Washington State Growth Management Act (RCW 36.70A). The Regional Planning group manages the King County Comprehensive Plan and collaborates regionally on countywide and multi-county planning. The Demographic Planner supports long range planning by working with cities and partner agencies to coordinate growth forecasting, growth targets, and the review and evaluation program required by the Act (referred to as “Buildable Lands”).

In addition to supporting the Regional Planning team, the Demographic Planner provides demographic support to other county agencies, policymakers, and elected leaders, consulting and coordinating with staff in county agencies. The Demographic Planner helps translate and assemble demographic information into usable form for grant writers, planners, and decision makers. The Demographic Planner also helps King County align with strategic partners to advance priority initiatives.

This position requires both broad social science research skills and a customer service orientation. Communication skills, flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to work as part of a team are equally as important as the technical skills for this position.

The Intern positions will primarily support PSRC’s Data Department with a range of data, analysis, and planning projects that may include general data development and analysis (non-spatial and spatial), support for PSRC’s land use and travel model development program, geocoding, web mapping, research and testing of visualization tools, programming/scripting projects, technical/data support for regional planning activities (e.g. VISION 2050, Puget Sound Trends), and other duties as assigned. Candidates should have a firm understanding of common data analysis techniques and tools including spreadsheets, relational databases, and GIS, as well as an interest in land use, transportation, or regional planning. Tasks include data processing and quality control, database assembly, data analysis, and preparation of data products, graphics, research, and written communications.

POSITION – The Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families at Oregon State University (OSU)
is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to develop a state/local poverty measure and use it to analyze Federal
and State safety net policies and their impacts. This postdoc position will focus on spearheading the
Oregon Poverty Measure (OrPM) project, a pioneering effort to create a more accurate measure of
poverty and economic hardship across Oregon’s diverse demographic and geographic landscape. Building
on other state-level poverty measure efforts in Wisconsin and California, the OrPM project involves
combining data from the American Community Survey, administrative data from the Department of
Human Services and Employment Department, and tax models. In addition to measuring poverty, the
project seeks to understand how changes in the economy and labor market, demographics, and state
polices affect the poverty rate. Oregon is a rich social laboratory to study innovative social policy and
their relationship to poverty. There will be considerable opportunity for the postdoctoral scholar to lead
research into relevant topics. Examples include minimum wage increases, expansion of the state Earned
Income Tax Credit, and a relatively generous cash assistance safety net. In addition to the cross-sectional
data linkage, we anticipate building a longitudinal panel dataset to examine questions of poverty policy
analysis and measurement over time.

Degree and area of specialization: Holds a doctoral degree in a discipline relevant to the units and position e.g. psychology, human development and family studies, social work, American Indian studies, anthropology, education or related disciplines. Employment contingent upon completion of degree.

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: The successful candidate has a demonstrated record of scholarship, potential for external grant support, and teaching proficiency that meets the criteria and rank at UW-Madison.

License or Certificate:
Position Summary: The Department of Civil Society and Community Studies (School of Human Ecology) and the American Indian Studies Program (College of Letters and Science) invite applications for a tenure-track faculty position, open to all ranks. This position is for a joint appointment with 50% in the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies (tenure home) and 50% in the American Indian Studies Program. We seek a candidate with expertise in community-engaged scholarship, indigenous methodologies/evaluation, community leadership, civil society or nonprofits and with tribal expertise. The area of research is open and may include community/tribal health, environmental health, community/tribal nutrition, indigenous knowledge systems, traditional ecological knowledge, community/tribal education, social justice, incarceration, etc. The candidate’s research should focus on Indigenous peoples and issues within North America with a particular focus on Wisconsin communities. The position requires scholarship, teaching, and service in a department and a program serving undergraduate and graduate students. Other desirable attributes include strong research methods, oral and written communication skills and the ability to interact with an interdisciplinary and collaborative intellectual community. Native American and minority candidates are encouraged to apply.

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This job carries with it the obligation to uphold the Mission of Lone Star College (LSC) in carrying out the duties of the position. A commitment to positive interpersonal behaviors, professional communication, diversity, integrity, leadership, stewardship, respect and accountability to LSC students and employees is essential.