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Now Hiring:
Clinical Research Specialist
The Center for Child and Family Policy is hiring two Clinical Research Specialists to coordinate field operations for the research study Midlife Health Inequities in the Rural South: Risk and Resilience. The work involves engaging with community organizations to foster participation, recruiting participants via phone and in-person visits, obtaining informed consent, scheduling and conducting assessments involving biological specimen collection, and ensuring the safe transmission of specimens to Duke. The role also involves verifying data accuracy, introducing participants to the study’s longitudinal assessment component, and maintaining compliance through various communication methods. This is a full-time position. Work for this position must be based in the North Carolina Black Belt area.
Research Data Tech II
The Center for Child and Family Policy is hiring a bilingual Research Data Technician to support two longitudinal evaluations of novel interventions designed to improve the health and well-being of children and families.
Research Analyst I
The Center for Child and Family Policy is hiring a Community Navigator to support a project team that is overseeing a randomized control trial to assess the impact of prenatal and postnatal navigation. The Navigator will work with the project team at CCFP and Duke Children’s Primary Care to implement and test aspects of a universal screening approach prenatally and postnatally at 12-, 24-, and 36-months. The work involves engaging with community organizations to foster participation, recruiting participants via phone and in-person visits, obtaining informed consent, scheduling and conducting assessments involving biological specimen collection, and ensuring the safe transmission of specimens to Duke. This is a full-time position. Work for this position must be based in the North Carolina Black Belt area.
Research Program Coordinator
The Center for Child and Family Policy is hiring a Research Program Coordinator to work with various research groups at the Center. This position requires the ability to assist faculty and researchers with project/research needs, as well as internal grant submissions. Perform administrative and research support responsibilities in support of the programs, research, and activities of the Center for Child and Family Policy. This position reports to the Associate Director for Administration.
ASSOCIATE IN RESEARCH
Professor Lisa Gennetian, Duke Sanford, is seeking an Associate In Research with experience in economics, public policy or a related discipline, to conduct analyses of policies and programs that target poverty, inequality, and economic disadvantage, particularly among young children. The research associate will work closely with faculty and staff on two strains of research. The first is the Baby’s First Years study, a randomized control trial investigating the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program on child development, subjective well-being, and economic behavior. The second line of work involves research for the Center for Research on Hispanic Families, investigating relationships between policy design and program participation among Latino families and children facing poverty and economic scarcity.
POST DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE
Professor Lisa Gennetian, Duke Sanford, is seeking a postdoctoral research scholar in economics, public policy or a related discipline, to lead and conduct analyses of policies and programs that target poverty, inequality, and economic disadvantage, particularly among young children. The postdoc will work closely with principal investigators on two strains of research. The first is the Baby’s First Years study, a randomized control trial investigating the impacts of a monthly unconditional cash transfer program on child development, subjective well-being, and economic behavior. The second line of work involves research for the Center for Research on Hispanic Families and Children, investigating relationships between policy design and program participation among Latino families and children facing poverty and economic scarcity.