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New York University Project Coordinator (Full-Time) in New York, New York
The Home-School Connections Team follows a partnership-based model to address the socio-cultural context of children's early development and learning at home and school, with a close focus on children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds. Our work spans two main areas: understanding the discourse and linguistic features of child-caregiver interactions, as well as exploring the ways in which schools and childcare centers incorporate culturally grounded family practices to support children's learning and development. We take a strength-based approach to understanding the ways minoritized families support their children's development and strongly believe that building solid home-school connections requires adopting a bidirectional approach, including bringing salient home and community practices into the classroom setting.
Currently, we are seeing a full-time project coordinator to oversee the implementaiton and evaluation of a culturally-responsive classroom-based oral storytelling program (i.e., SEEDS) aimed at supportin gthe early education and development of culturaly and linguistically diverse children enrolled in New York City preschools.
Position Responsibilities
Supervising a team of research assistants
Overseeing teacher and parent recruitment
Collaborating with community partners
Assisting with teacher training and coaching
Creating and preparing intervention materials
Conducting school visits at preschool centers throughout NYC
Coordinating classroom observations and direct child assessments
Supervising data entry and data management activities
Assisting with qualitative and quantitative analysis of data
Collaborating on grant writing, conference presentations, and publications
In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $58,000-$65,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) the specific grant funding and the terms of the research grant when extending an offer.
Per NYU's remote-work policy, this position is expected to be fully in-person.
Bachelor's degree and two years work experience
Strong oral communication skills
Prior experience supervising a team, as well as collaborating with key stakeholders and community partners, strongly preferred
Working knowledge of Spanish is preferred but not required
The position will begin October 14th. To apply, please send a cover letter, CV/resume, transcript, and names, phone numbers, and email addresses of two references via Interfolio.
About IHDSC
, The Institute of Human Development and Social Change (IHDSC) is a large, interdisciplinary research center at NYU's Steinhardt School that aims to break new ground through support of rigorous research and training across social, behavioral, educational, policy and health sciences. IHDSC cultivates intellectual community and research-practice-policy partnerships focused on race and inequality, education and child development, health and wellbeing, and legal system involvement. IHDSC brings together over 90 faculty and hundreds of students and staff with the goals of knowledge creation (research), knowledge transmission (education), and knowledge utilization (policy and practice). IHDSC hosts a range of initiatives aimed at catalyzing new programs of multidisciplinary research, linking people across divides to solve social problems, building intellectual community, and disseminating research evidence to policymakers, practitioners, and general audiences.
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