The College Crisis Initiative (C2i) at Davidson College seeks an inquisitive and enthusiastic Fellow to serve as Research Coordinator to manage the Research Affiliate program. Research Affiliates are external partners that work with C2i students and in return, are granted access to C2i data. Working with the Director and Assistant Director, the Fellow will collaborate on research projects related to equity and governance, environmental disasters, campus infrastructure issues, and COVID-19.

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintain communications with Research Affiliates to identify their data needs and organize collaboration between affiliates and C2i students.
• Assist with research papers and presentations in collaboration with the C2i leadership team.
• Help to plan data collections, clean C2i data, and distribute datasets to external partners.
• Keep track of projects using C2i data and respond to media requests pertaining to findings of C2i data.
• Produce high quality publications, written materials, and other media to disseminate the results of C2i research to a broad audience.
• Other duties as assigned.

Essential Qualifications

• Experience collecting quantitative or qualitative data.
• Demonstrated experience with (or potential to learn) publishing software such as Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Publisher.
• Working knowledge of WordPress and other web-design applications.
• Collaborative spirit and energetic approach to research and social impact.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate with a wide variety of professionals and students.
• Recent college graduate (Class of 2023 or 2022).
• Bachelor’s degree.

Desired (but not required) Qualifications

• Member of the Davidson College Class of 2023 or 2022.
• Statistical programming experience preferred (i.e. Stata, R, SPSS).
• Familiarity with quantitative research methods.

Information about how to submit an application can be found at https://employment.davidson.edu.

At Davidson College, we believe the college grows stronger by recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty and staff committed to building an inclusive community.  In order to achieve and sustain educational excellence, we seek to hire talented faculty and staff across the intersections of diverse races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, socio-economic backgrounds, political perspectives, abilities, cultures, and national origins.