Senior Program Officer, Community Research & Impact
Job description
What We Do
With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.
Strategies We Pursue
- Equip talent in underinvested communities with the skills and credentials to compete successfully for quality income and wealth opportunities.
- Invest in businesses, housing and other community infrastructure to catalyze economic, health, safety and educational mobility for individuals and communities.
- Strengthen existing alliances while building new collaborations to increase our impact on the progress of people and places.
- Develop leadership and the capacity of partners to advance our work together
- Drive local, regional, and national policy and system changes that foster broadly shared prosperity and well-being.
Over the last 40 years, LISC and its affiliates have invested approximately $24 billion in businesses, affordable housing, health, educational mobility, community and recreational facilities, public safety, employment and other projects that help to revitalize and stabilize underinvested communities. Headquartered in New York City, LISC’s reach spans the country from East coast to West coast in 38 markets with offices extending from Buffalo to San Francisco and in 2,400 rural counties across 49 states and Puerto Rico. Visit us at www.lisc.org
JOB OVERVIEW:
LISC is seeking a qualified candidate for a Senior Program Officer for Research and Impact. This position will be part of LISC’s Community Research and Impact team (CRI) – a kind of R&D shop at LISC National. CRI’s charge within LISC is to rigorously understand innovative programs and policies that can substantially address racial, gender, and economic inequities. CRI also promotes the strong and equitable implementation of these kinds of transformative initiatives. To that end, the candidate will conduct original, applied, quantitative and qualitative research, and develop and implement strategy to advance impact in collaboration with local offices, national programs, and external partners. Another major role is to support varied internal data and research requests from LISC programs and local offices, and to provide requested technical assistance on program design. As LISC is a comprehensive community development agency, topics will span the range of the programs we cover, but we anticipate that there will be a focus on transformative programmatic and policy efforts related to housing justice and varied forms of community ownership. The position will be based in our New York City headquarters.
Responsibilities:
The following are an indication of the position’s core responsibilities; these are intended to illustrate the scope of responsibilities and are not exclusive of other duties that may be required.
Community Research
- Lead and participate in substantial research activities. Collaborate with the CRI team, and other internal and external stakeholders, to develop and define sharp, policy- and practice-relevant research questions on a variety of community development topics
- Implement this research, conducting qualitative and quantitative research independently and within teams
- Actively disseminate this research in ways that advance programmatic and policy changes, through webinars, conferences, meetings and other venues
- Maintain and advance continuous connections with policy research, advocacy, and policy audiences
- Participate in fundraising for research; conduct funded research
- Support ongoing internal research requests, such as literature reviews or policy scans, data or metrics development, scans of community data, among other topics.
Community Impact
- Support strong, equitable program design on impactful new initiatives by collaborating with LISC subject-experts, local offices, and external partners to develop core approaches, implementation strategies to overcome barriers/challenges, protocols for activities or service delivery, etc.
- Identify and advance opportunities for policy and systems change, based on the individual’s and LISC’s programmatic and research expertise
- Participate in fundraising for new programmatic and policy initiatives; take part in implementing or manage these initiatives
- Conduct trainings and develop resources for internal staff on program design
- Facilitate and support internal working groups on different programmatic topics
- Disseminate new strategies and practices in ways that benefit the LISC network of community partners
Perform all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an applied field, or in a social science discipline with significant applied work
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in the general field
- Significant experience conducting research and providing technical assistance in ways that are deeply collaborative and genuinely community-driven
- Experience working at or with community-based organizations essential
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, for diverse audiences including practitioners and policymakers, but also involving popular education for residents
- High motivated and collaborative; ability to manage multiple projects and maintain strong collaborative relationships across internal and external teams.
Compensation
LISC offers a competitive salary ($83,100 – $104,000; salary is commensurate with experience and location) and excellent fringe benefits.
LISC is an equal opportunity employer. LISC does not discriminate in employment on account of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military status or veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
LISC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND JUSTICE
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