Senior Research Support Specialist – Climate Jobs Institute (Cornell University)

About the Opportunity

The position will collaborate with CJI faculty, staff, and ILR students on CJI’s applied and academic research studies and CJI’s policy research, analysis, and development. Successful Research Support Specialist candidates will have knowledge of climate, energy and/or labor issues and experience generating literature reviews on ongoing research projects and conducting qualitative and quantitative research, including identifying relevant data sets, compiling information and statistics, and collecting and analyzing climate, energy and labor data from archives, libraries, and a variety of databases. CJI’s Research Support Specialists will create surveys and questions, analyze results and data, and create visual presentations and reports based on the data collection. The successful candidates will also write and edit research and policy papers. In addition, the Research Support Specialist will work with undergraduate student fellows at the CJI. The individual will also edit grant and funding proposals and write media articles related to research topics for the CJI and ILR communications.

More information about the ILR School can be obtained at our website, http://www.ilr.cornell.edu, and the Climate Jobs Institute, https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/climate-jobs-institute.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree and three to five years of relevant experience or equivalent combination.
• Two to three years of experience with qualitative and quantitative research approaches including the capability to create surveys and survey tools, identify relevant data sets, collect and analyze data, generate visuals, and write reports based on data collection.
• Experience collecting data using standardized instruments and contribute to statistical data analysis.
• Experience writing research reports/manuscripts for publication using appropriate style guides.
• Experience contributing to instrument design, conducting observational field research, statistical data analysis, writing of research reports, and manuscripts for publication.
• Extensive experience with editing documents and research reports for publication
• Proven expertise preparing presentations, create slides, and craft documents for educational programs and trainings.
• Experience in translating research/evaluation for a general audience.
• Demonstrated ability working on multidisciplinary teams, providing creative and critical independent thinking while also considering diverse opinions and approaches.
• Experience or internship working with unions, labor boards, environmental or climate justice organizations, academic labor programs, or governmental climate, energy or labor agencies.
• Experience with internet and library searches.
• Strong understanding with many of the following areas including labor unions, especially building trade and energy sector unions, worker organizing and collective bargaining contracts, climate protection and clean energy policy, renewable energy and other low-carbon economic sectors, low-wage precarious work and inequality, and union and worker training programs.
• Proven ability to manage multiple competing deadlines and be flexible with changing work priorities.
• Demonstrated capability of working independently for long stretches of time with limited supervision
• Demonstrated capability of working in a collaborative environment
• Excellent verbal, written, telephone and public presentation skills.
• Advanced experience with preparing, creating, and transforming academic citations in multiple formats such as APA and MLA.
• Experience and skill using and learning different software packages and web-based tools (e.g., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, Zoom or videoconferencing software, Lexis Nexis, library databases, and Qualtrics)
• Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members.

Compensation and Benefits:

Cornell provides great benefits that include educational benefits, access to a plethora of wellness programs, employee discounts with local and national retail brands, health care options to choose from, generous paid leave provisions, and superior retirement contributions. Cornell has also been nationally recognized as an award-winning workplace for our health, well-being, sustainability, and diversity initiatives. For more information, click here.

Salary per CWA exempt bargaining unit contract: $70,378