Founded in 1968, the Guttmacher Institute is a global leader in advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. Through a unique and interrelated program of research, policy analysis and communications, the Institute works to generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate and promote sound policies and programs. The Institute’s overarching goal is to ensure the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health for all people.

The Director of International Research works in partnership with Guttmacher’s other research directors, including a second Director of International Research, to implement the Institute’s wide-ranging portfolio of policy-relevant international research, which may be global, regional or country-specific in scope. While the Director of International Research will bring particular geographic and/or substantive focus areas, s/he will provide input and guidance on all areas of Guttmacher’s research. The director oversees the work and guides the professional development of a highly skilled team of senior, mid-level and junior researchers and represents the Institute and the research division externally.

The Director of International Research reports to the VP for International Research, and receives guidance from the VP for Domestic Research on division-wide matters, including personnel issues, management strategy and divisional policies.

Responsibilities

Vision and strategy of the division

• Contribute to the development of Institute strategy and priority-setting, ensuring alignment with and implementation of the Institute’s strategic plan.
• Stimulate, encourage and contribute to the development of ideas and new proposals, including innovating around the Institute’s core topics.
• With the leadership of the division, coordinate with CEO and senior management of other divisions to promote the highest quality and efficiency of the Institute’s work.

Divisional management and supervision

• Work with the Director of Research Administration (DRA), other directors and the VPs to efficiently manage the division including:
  • Administrative and personnel matters
  • Adherence to budgets and timelines across projects
  • Staff assignment to projects
  • Priority setting among and across projects, and resolution of scheduling conflicts
• Supervise 4–5 Principal Research Scientists (PRSs) and Senior Research Scientists (SRSs) in the following domains:
  • Ensure that staff receive adequate support, mentoring and guidance
  • Proactively identify and provide guidance on opportunities for professional development, and facilitate skill development in all respects, including methodological, substantive and management skills
  • Oversee promotions, conflict resolution, and disciplinary steps and serve as ombudsperson for staff concerns
• Assist with recruitment of research directors and PRSs, lead on hiring of international SRSs, and coordinate with the DRA to provide guidance, input on and approval of the hiring of midlevel and junior staff.
• Monitor and manage relationships with external project collaborators, including incountry partners and consultants.
• Review—or delegate the review of—communications materials, provide guidance on plans for dissemination, and respond to external requests for information.

Research oversight and execution

• Along with the VP for International Research and the second Director of International Research, assume primary responsibility for the current international research portfolio, ensuring quality and timeliness of research activities and products.
• Provide broad, high-level guidance to projects at key stages.
• Devote approximately one-quarter of time to research activities by serving as Project Principal and conducting research on one or more projects, including publication in peer-reviewed journals.
• Participate in the development and review of concept notes and grant proposals.
• Work with PRSs to oversee and coordinate the review process of project documents and products.
• Act as liaison with the VPs to set priorities and coordinate the VPs’ input into research projects.
• Work to improve research infrastructure and the quality, accuracy, replicability and transparency of our work, including systems (statistical, programming, data management) and other work processes.

External relations

• Develop and maintain partnerships and collaborations with other organizations.
• Represent the Institute at high-level events and with donors.
• Sit on advisory panels, serve on grant review panels (e.g., NIH) and participate in other professional and external roles.

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in the social sciences, public health or a closely related field.
• Commitment to policy-relevant SRH research.
• Minimum of 15 years conducting research on international sexual and reproductive health, substantial publication record and strong reputation in the field.
• Strong track record of successfully managing, mentoring and motivating staff; commitment to helping staff develop professionally and to fostering productive teamwork.
• Ability to contribute to senior-level management processes of the Institute as a whole.
• Ability to work collaboratively across the Institute and with external partners.
• Excellent writing, editing and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Originality and creativity and the ability to bring out those qualities in one’s staff.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and activities, and, when necessary, to respond rapidly to outside events.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to work well with diverse internal and external individuals.
• Fifteen to twenty percent of international travel required on an annual basis. Length of trips varies based on project responsibilities.
• Initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness and dependability.
• Ability to provide both big-picture input and strong attention to detail when needed.

Salary and benefits

Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits that include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, 401(k) with employer match, commuting subsidy, and generous time off.

Application

Please send resume and cover letter via e-mail to applytoguttmacher@guttmacher.org. Type your first and last name, as well as the title of the position for which you are applying, in the subject line.

Over the past year, Mathematica Policy Research has been exploring the capacity of municipal wastewater testing to quantify opioid use in the United States. You are invited to join a webinar on May 16, 2017, for a symposium on The Potential of Wastewater Testing for Public Health and Safety, funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. At this webinar, they will convene federal agency representatives; public health, child welfare, and law enforcement officials at the state and local level; and academic health and wastewater researchers. The goals of the daylong event will be to identify knowledge gaps that are hampering decision making about the opioid crisis, and to pinpoint how to advance the science of wastewater testing to meet real-world needs.

Symposium discussions will center on presentations and research briefs developed by ASPE, SAMHSA, NGA, Mathematica, and wastewater researchers from around the world. Symposium materials will be circulated in advance to all registered participants.

The Global Practice for Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience (GP SURR) is examining ways in which demographic factors impact the existing work of the GP and where they should be taken more clearly into account to strengthen the developmental impact of the GP’s work, particularly within its investment projects. The GP intends to carry out a review of its existing and pipeline projects with the aim to identify the opportunities for paying closer attention to demographic trends and processes. To this end, GP SURR is offering a Short Term Consultancy (STC) to an experienced demographer to undertake a review of its relevant operations and provide suggestions on how demographic issues are likely to shape GP SURR’s medium term agenda. The consultant will have a minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience in this field and work closely with the GP management and other World Bank staff on this activity. The outputs will include: (a) PowerPoint presentation summarizing the; and (b) short report of the findings of the assessment with practical recommendations. The review will take place from April 2017-June 2017.

If interested, please contact Gayatri Singh (gsingh9@worldbank.org) and Maitreyi B Das (mdas@worldbank.org) with your CV. We will be happy to set up a meeting to provide a more detailed scope of work after an initial review of the CVs.

The purpose of this prize is to honor the intellectual legacy of Professor Emerita Nancy C.M. Hartsock by providing recognition for emerging scholars at the University of Washington, Seattle, whose contributions to feminist theory are excellent and noteworthy.

Graduate students from any department or school in the College of Arts and Sciences are eligible to submit their papers for consideration. The recipient of this prize will receive an award of $500.

Application Criteria, Materials, and Procedures:

• Any paper written by a graduate student during AY 2015-2016 and AY 2016-2017 is eligible for consideration. Eligible papers may include (but are not limited to): seminar papers, conference papers, Master’s theses (revised to the length of a typical book chapter or journal article), or papers written for possible publication.
• Papers should be formatted in 12 point font, with double spacing.
• The cover page of the paper should indicate the specific venue or purpose for which the paper was written (e.g., specific seminar, conference, journal, requirement for certification or advancement through a graduate program), and the date on which it was completed and/or submitted. It should also include the title of the paper and the name of the author.
• Complete applications should contain the following: 1) A one-page cover letter explaining the significance of the paper for feminist theoretical inquiry; 2) a CV; 3) an unofficial copy of your UW transcript; 4) the paper; 5) a one-page letter of endorsement from a member of the graduate faculty who is familiar with your scholarship. The faculty letter of endorsement may be e-mailed separately to distefan@uw.edu.

Applications are due by Friday, May 12, 5:00 p.m. Please send your application as a single PDF file to distefan@uw.edu. The prize recipient will be announced by Friday, June 2.

The members of this year’s selection committee are:

• Christine Di Stefano, Associate Professor, Political Science
• Priti Ramamurthy, Professor and Chair, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• Chandan Reddy, Associate Professor, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; Comparative History of Ideas
• Alys Weinbaum, Associate Professor, English

Join us in launching the Injury-related Health Equity Across the Lifespan (I-Heal) Program at the University of Washington Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Spring 2017!

Public Lecture with Adil Haider

Dr. Haider, an active trauma and critical care surgeon, is credited with uncovering racial disparities after traumatic injury and establishing the field of trauma disparities research. He will be speaking about “cultural dexterity” in health care and provide a roadmap for research and practice in this area.

The lecture is supported by the Population Health Initiative, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, School of Social Work, and the Institute of Translational Health Sciences.

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend a presentation and discussion of the arguments for health care as a right of democratic citizenship, as advanced in CSDE Affiliate Gunnar Almgren’s newly released book—Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform.

The event will feature Almgren offering a brief overview of the evolution of American exceptionalism in health care, explaining the current political and social context that motivated the book, and unpacking the book’s main arguments. A discussion, facilitated by UW Professor of Philosophy Bill Talbott, with and among the audience will follow.  The event is free and open to the entire three-campus UW community.

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce the interaction-partitioned topic model (IPTM)—a probabilistic model of who communicates with whom about what, and when. Broadly speaking, the IPTM partitions time-stamped textual communications, such as emails, according to both the network dynamics that they reflect and their content. To define the IPTM, we integrate a dynamic version of the exponential random graph model—a generative model for ties that tend toward structural features such as triangles—and latent Dirichlet allocation—a generative model for topic-based content. The IPTM assigns each topic to an “interaction pattern”—a generative process for ties that is governed by a set of dynamic network features. Each communication is then modeled as a
mixture of topics and their corresponding interaction patterns. We use the IPTM to analyze emails sent between department managers in two county governments in North Carolina; one of these email corpora covers the Outer Banks during the time period surrounding Hurricane Sandy. Via this application, we demonstrate that the IPTM is effective at predicting and explaining continuous-time textual communications.