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Req #: 245760

Department: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Posting Date: 05/06/2025

Closing Info:

Open Until Filled

Salary: $10,079 - $10,400 per month

Limited Recruitment: **Open to UW Employees only**

Shift: First Shift

Notes:

As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-contract-covered-exempt-20250130-a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The Norris and Dorothy Haring Center for Research and Training in Inclusive Education grew out of 50 years of groundbreaking work in special education at the Experimental Education Unit. The Haring Center is proud to be a leader in developing, implementing, evaluating, and disseminating strategies to help children of all abilities and backgrounds succeed, all teachers to be effective, and all caregivers feel confident and competent. The Haring Center’s commitment to equity based inclusion leads us to invest in recruiting colleagues who demonstrate experience with, knowledge of, and sensitivity to the needs of culturally diverse and marginalized populations.

The Haring Center has an outstanding opportunity for a Principal Research Scientist. Reporting to the Haring Center Director (Dr. Kathleen Artman Meeker), the Research Scientist will work with the Haring Center team to design, implement, analyze, and disseminate applied research related to inclusion and school-based supports for children with disabilities. This role will also serve as a subject matter expert in this area and will produce customized technical trainings and assistance to external partners and collaborators in the field, oversee the conceptualization and implementation of research and evaluation activities, and orchestrate internal and external communications and outreach efforts as they relate to this initiative. This position will include developing new lines of applied research and evaluation, seeking new funding across state, regional, federal, and philanthropic sources, and building collaborative opportunities across the state of Washington and the region. The Principal Research Scientist will work with colleagues and students from multiple disciplines and, in addition to demonstrating disciplinary excellence, must be able to work collaboratively across disciplines.

This position requires someone with a broad knowledge about school-based mental health practices, prevention and implementation research, inclusive special education practices, tiered systems of support, state and federal policies, and initiatives on supporting the educational workforce and school-based inclusion. Successful candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to work with communities and students from diverse backgrounds holding a range of worldviews. This is a grant-based appointment and is contingent on the continued availability of funds. The position is a 100% FTE. Extension of this appointment may be possible, dependent upon available funding.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** **Project Development and Strategic Partnership Building

+ Play a leadership role in identification and acquisition of funding across an array of funding sources (grants, contracts, gifts)

+ Strengthen partnerships with and between educational service districts, school districts, and the Haring Center

+ Develop technical proposals and research materials, tools, and products

+ Publish research reports, manuscripts, and external products with colleagues from UW and other institutions.

+ Lead symposia, chair committees or working groups, and influence the regional and national agenda on social, emotional, and behavioral health services and supports in schools **Project Implementation**

+ Conduct high quality, impactful applied research in school-based mental health and social emotional development

+ Provide technical leadership for the Haring Center on tiered systems of support and the integration of social and academic supports

+ Develop and maintain a strong record of product dissemination across multiple audiences (educators, policy makers, families)

+ Define staff needs, oversee staffing and hiring for complex projects

+ Manage multiple complex research and evaluation projects

+ Oversee and maintain the Human Subjects application, approval, and renewal process and other university requirements for ethical research with youth

+ Independently manage project reporting as required by finders

+ Oversee complex staffing and project management tasks across projects.

+ Define project scopes, maintain budget and reporting requirements, and interface with funders (project officers, etc.)

+ Hire, supervise, mentor and train junior staff and graduate students **Research and Impact Development**

+ Collaborate across parts of the Haring Center and the UW to identify strategic opportunities to advance the mission of the organizations

+ Provide leadership in major intellectual development activities

+ Contribute major independent advances that lead to improved practices in schools

+ Provide service to the field and leadership as evidenced by service on advisory boards, invited talks, and/or leadership roles in national professional organizations. **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**

+ Ph.D. in Special Education, psychology, education, or related field and 6 years' experience in applied research, product development and training in education. **Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.** **ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS**

+ Distinguished record of applied research, resulting in widely used products, training materials, and long-term partnerships with schools and districts

+ Proven success securing and administering external funding

+ Demonstrated ability to work across diverse groups and contribute to an inclusive community.

+ Experience supervising and mentoring junior staff

+ Knowledge of and experience in school-based academic and behavioral services

+ Excellent written and verbal interpersonal communication skills

+ Ability to travel as needed to support grant and contract activities and training

+ Well organized, punctual **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Experience with program evaluation

+ Experience with qualitative, quantitative, or design based research methodology

+ Experience with designing and delivering professional development and technical assistance

+ Experience with strategic planning **Application Process:** The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.