Associate/Full Specialist - Child Welfare Outcomes - California Child Welfare Indicators Project

Position overview Position title: Research Associate
Salary range: The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See the following table for the current salary scale for this position: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2022-23/july-2022-salary-scales/t24-b.pdf. The current base salary range for this position is $67,400-$173,900. "Off-scale" salaries, which yield compensation that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions. A reasonable estimate for this position is $67,400 - $83,100

Percent time: 100%

Anticipated start: June 1, 2023

Position duration: One year.

Application Window
Open date: May 3, 2023

Most recent review date: Sunday, Jun 4, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.

Final date: Friday, Jun 9, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Position description

The California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) is seeking a doctoral-level researcher to fill the position of Research Specialist to join a nationally-recognized partnership between the Center for Social Services Research at the University of California, Berkeley, the California Department of Social Services, and philanthropic foundations.

The CCWIP provides critical information on child welfare outcomes and performance to professionals in the child welfare field, including administrators, front line workers, advocates, and legislators. CCWIP staff work with partners at the state and county level to develop and compute quarterly performance measures from the California Child Welfare Services Case Management System (CWS/CMS), a statewide relational database containing information on all children and families involved with the child welfare system. These measures are reported on a public website for use by agency staff, policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders, and have recently been augmented to include early adulthood outcomes such as employment and college enrollment. CCWIP also provides multiple forms of technical assistance to state and county staff in understanding and applying administrative outcome data to create system improvement. In addition to these endeavors, the CCWIP recently undertook an evaluation of the state's opt-in Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) program.

In the coming year and beyond the project will be engaged in a number of significant projects, including: concluding a two-year implementation study of county-level CSEC programming; conduct analyses of system-involvement experiences and trajectories of non-minor dependents based on the priorities outlined by the Transition-Age Youth Research and Evaluation Hub's (TAY-Hub) community stakeholder network; ongoing publication of sub-county geography reporting for Los Angeles; designing and implementing a statewide survey on transition-age youth, nonminor dependents, and caseworker's experiences within the child welfare system; and ongoing collaborations with the California Department of Social Services, and other partners (e.g., Casey Family Programs, the Children's Data Network at USC, and the Urban Institute).

Qualifications
Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

• Master's degree (or equivalent international degree)

Additional qualifications (required at time of start)

MSW degree from an accredited school or university, or equivalent international degree as recognized by OSWA or ISWDRES; or three years' work experience related to social welfare or human services.

Preferred qualifications

PhD (or equivalent international degree), or enrolled in PhD or equivalent international degree-granting program at the time of application;

Three or more years of direct practice experience working in a public child welfare agency (ideally in California).

One year or more of direct experience in a Project Manager role.

Expertise with policies and practices related to the child welfare system response to commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC);

Strong familiarity with the policies and data entry practices of public child welfare agencies using the California statewide child welfare automated database (CWS/CMS);

Programming skill in accessing, understanding, managing, and using information from the California statewide child welfare relational database (CWS/CMS);

High degree of computer literacy: strong skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint, familiarity with the SAS programming language;

Outstanding work ethic to support the Principal Investigator and technical assistance in the Project's work with the California Department of Social Services and other committees, philanthropic organizations, social service providers, and state agencies, including grant writing and research design;

Strong analytic and presentation skills for developing and delivering original research presentations at academic conferences, invited convenings, professional committees, and other venues;

Exceptional communication ability in writing progress reports to funders, superlative responsivity in corresponding and collaborating with project partners, and coordinating the work of project staff;

Excellent interpersonal skills in providing technical assistance to public child welfare professionals and other stakeholders in understanding and tracking performance according to systemic outcome measures;

Making strategic decisions and providing leadership and direction to evaluation sub-teams to implement those decisions;

Advanced rapport-building skills and experience collaborating with community members and experts with lived experiences of child abuse, neglect and/or placement in out-of-home care;

Proven track record of publications in peer-reviewed journals;

Programming expertise with SAS, R, Stata, SPSS, Python;

Willingness to travel for meetings and presentations within California and potentially out of state as needed by the project.

Application Requirements

Document requirements

• Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
  
• Cover Letter
  
• Statement of Research - Please include a section discussing your experience with child welfare indicators.
  
• Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including information about your understanding of these topics, your record of activities to date, and your specific plans and goals for advancing equity and inclusion if hired at Berkeley (for additional information go to https://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversity).
  
• Sample Publication 1 - Manuscript or publication
  
• Sample Publication 2 - Manuscript or publication.
  

Reference requirements

• 3 required (contact information only)

Apply link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03878

Help contact: d.schiller@berkeley.edu

Campus Information

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are core values at UC Berkeley. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and academic and non-academic staff who share our commitment to these values. Successful candidates for our academic positions will demonstrate evidence of a commitment to advancing equity, inclusion, and belonging.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California Policy on Vaccination Programs - With Updated Interim Amendments. All Covered Individuals under the policy must provide proof of receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine Primary Series or, if applicable, submit a request for Exception (based on Medical Exemption, Disability, Religious Objection, and/or Deferral based on pregnancy or recent COVID-19 diagnosis and/or treatment) no later than the applicable deadline. All Covered Individuals must also provide proof of receiving the most recent CDC-recommended COVID-19 booster or properly decline such booster no later than the applicable deadline. New University of California employees should refer to Exhibit 2, Section II.C. of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program Attachment for applicable deadlines. All Covered Individuals must also provide proof of being Up-To-Date on seasonal influenza vaccination or properly decline such vaccination no later than the applicable deadline. Please refer to the Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Program Attachment. (Capitalized terms in this paragraph are defined in the policy.) Federal, state, or local public health directives may impose additional requirements.

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Job location
Berkeley, CA


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