Job: DataCenter Research Fellow: Domestic Worker Project

[Kwan Booth]

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DataCenter   Research Fellow Full-time Position (1 FTE), Oakland-based. Salary: $35,000-$40,000 DOE plus 3 weeks of vacation, medical, dental & vision (inc. domestic partners) and professional development opportunities.  People of color strongly encouraged to apply.   The DataCenter supports grassroots communities to build their research infrastructure and develop research and strategizing capacity from within to build their political power for change.  We aim to reframe research as a tool for social change and self-determination in order to reclaim communities as the experts.  Our goal is to ensure that research is accessible to all and that the research is passed on and owned by the communities.  Our approach combines professional-level research services with popular education training, participatory research methods and campaign consultation.   DataCenter seeks a Research Fellow that will support our role in a two-year long national domestic worker survey project in partnership with the National Domestic Worker Alliance (NDWA) and the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois and Chicago (CUED).  The project will document, and help frame the debate around working conditions of domestic workers, while also building the capacity of member organizations and the NDWA to organize domestic workers and improve industry practices. The national project will be the first-ever national domestic worker research ever to be conducted, and will be implemented in 13 cities, with the aim to gather 2,200 surveys.  The research will support the national and grassroots efforts of domestic worker organizing.   The Research Fellow will work with the Research Director and project team (which includes the National Alliance, the university partner, and the committee of local organizations) to implement the survey project from design to dissemination.  The Research Fellow will be responsible for designing trainings and tools that will allow workers and the staff of  organizations to strategically shape and fully participate in the research. Fellow must have demonstrated experience in designing and leading popular education, interactive and participatory training curricula that are culturally-appropriate for the intended audiences.   Fellow will also oversee the survey implementation and support all other aspects of the project, including data collection, survey design, analysis, writing, dissemination, etc.  Fellow will also coordinate the employer interviews.    Primary activities include: Project Planning:  Create and finalize research plan Government Data Collection:  Collect government data on the industry Survey Design:  Create discussion guides for local organization to use with workers to get input on survey priorities and themes.  Participate in a multi-day survey design meeting with the project team to create and finalize the survey instrument.  Assess previous surveys for strengths and weaknesses.  Pilot and revise survey.  Survey Implementation:  Create Train the Trainers materials and curriculum.  Train organizational leaders on how to coordinate and implement the survey.  This includes creating the survey outreach infrastructure, such as providing the appropriate materials needed to track and coordinate the outreach and workshop curricula on how to train surveyors.  Survey Coordination: Track survey collection and follow up as needed with organizations, including troubleshooting, to ensure that local groups achieve their survey goals.  Employer Interviews Coordination: Coordinate the design and implementation of employer interviews.  This includes finalizing the instrument, training interviewers, coordinating the transcribing and analysis and working with consultant in writing up the findings.   Data Analysis: Create curriculum that will train workers in data analysis.  Co-facilitate the data analysis workshops at the national congress.  Work with the project team and advisory committee to review findings for the report.  Report and Dissemination: Work with the project team and advisory committee on the final report and dissemination strategy.     Evaluation: Design and implement an evaluation process to assess the project in meeting its goals.  Capacity Building tools: Create replicable materials to be used in low wage industries.   Build off the lessons and tools from the NDWA project and create materials, tools, and curricula that can be used with other low-wage sectors so that they can conduct their own community-led, outcome-oriented research projects that shed light on shadow economies.     Qualifications Creative, inquisitive spirit with a commitment to social justice. Interest in economic justice and domestic worker issues. Demonstrated experience with curriculum development, facilitation and conducting trainings. Experience working with qualitative and/or quantitative social science methods and/or participatory research. Preferred experience designing and implementing research projects from design to dissemination. Understanding of how research plays a powerful role in advancing grassroots-led social justice agenda. Knowledge of analysis software (GIS, SPSS, NVIVO, etc.) and government data a plus. Demonstrated experience with popular-education approach to grassroots capacity-building. Demonstrated ability to coordinate projects and to develop organizational relationships. Competent at working within diverse cultural communities. Excellent oral and writing skills. Computer and Internet skills. Ability to make a full-time 2-year commitment and travel occasionally. Excellent team-player, while retaining self-direction to work independently. Spanish speaking strongly preferred.     Start date: September 20, 2010    TO APPLY: Please send resume and cover letter to: Saba Waheed, Research Director, by email sa...@datacenter.org or mail to DataCenter, Attn:  Research Fellow Hire, 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 900, Oakland, CA 94612-2912 USA.  Please no phone calls or faxes. For more information about the DataCenter, visit http://www.datacenter.org.  See publications page for previous domestic worker projects.  Application deadline:August 25, 2010.

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