Antioch University New England
Start Date: 10/21/2024
End Date: 6/30/2025
Number of Positions: 2
Hours per Week: 10-20 hours/week/student x 2 students
Weekends Required: No
Evenings Required: No
Supervisor: Abigail Abrash Walton
Alternate Supervisor: Terri Downing
This position allows for remote work Yes/No: Yes
Percentage of time that could be remote (0-100%): The candidate must be responsive and available via email, phone, and/or in person. The position will report to ENACTS Project Co-PI and Antioch faculty member Abigail Abrash Walton. Team meetings will take place during regular week-day business hours. Travel to the three Living Hub sites will be required during Spring 2025. Some weekend travel and programmatic work may be required, in association with the three Community Resilience workshops.
Method to assess remote work: The candidate must be responsive and available via email, phone, and/or in person. The position will report to ENACTS Project Co-PI and Antioch faculty member Abigail Abrash Walton. Team meetings will take place during regular week-day business hours. Travel to the three Living Hub sites will be required during Spring 2025. Some weekend travel and programmatic work may be required, in association with the three Community Resilience workshops.
Job Description
Key responsibilities for this position include the following:
● Collaborate in developing and implementing one-day Community Resilience
workshops in each of the three Living Hubs, based on the Antioch CCPCR
Climate and Health Resilience Initiative pilot;
● Collaborate in designing, implementing and analyzing stakeholder behavioral
change research methods (pre- and post-workshop surveys, semi-structured
interviews);
● Mobilize and manage project stakeholder engagement, including identifying and
engaging Living Hub community participants/NbS decision makers;
● Collaborate in developing presentations and reports on the team’s work for the
ENACTS team and others;
● Develop and share with AUNE Comms team narrative description and photo
image documenting project activities relevant for social media; and
● Participate in weekly Antioch team meetings and periodic ENACTS team
meetings from October 2024 to August 2025.
Qualifications
- Ability to work with others and communicate effectively, including with
respect to presentations and report writing, is essential. - Ability to travel for project workshops is required.
- Experience with effective community organizing and event
planning, particularly with respect to climate resilience and preparedness issues is
strongly preferred. - Prior qualitative and quantitative research experience is strongly
preferred, including psychosocial survey development, administration, and analysis;
implementation of semi-structured interviews; and effective data management. - We seek self-directed and motivated individuals to move this project forward and
effectively support the Center’s vision and mission in collaboration with the Antioch PI. - Additional qualifications include organizational, project, and time management skills,
flexibility, strong intercultural and interpersonal awareness and skills, the capacity to
work independently, and the ability to network with local government decision makers,
community-based organization members, residents, and other ENACTS researchers. - Reliable access to a personal computer or to Antioch campus library computer services
is required.
How to Apply: To apply for this graduate research assistant-ship, please email a resume, writing sample, and brief cover letter (no more than 1 page) describing how this position fits with your professional goals. Send to: [email protected].
Email: [email protected]
Position Type: Work Study
Department: ES/CCPCR