Senior Research Fellows

• Housing Equity, Affordability and Wealth: CLiME’s housing work has examined rental affordability, displacement risk through gentrification, right to counsel and pervasive institutional ownership of single-family homes. This work continues with the need for regulatory models, innovative financing strategies, systems research on segregation and remedial frameworks for equitable growth. We will explore statewide dynamics, best practices, and how housing issues intersect with enhanced risks from climate change, child welfare outcomes and ways to grow intergenerational wealth.
• Public Health and Social Determinants: The COVID pandemic’s disproportionate devastation of African Americans and other communities of color has been mediated through preexisting underlying health conditions, many of them at least partially socially determined. CLiME’s past work in this area looked at psychological trauma and discriminatory causes of racial health disparities. The work continues in a remedial vein. What markers would demonstrate decreased vulnerability to viral outbreaks and how do we achieve them? What are the keys to imposing institutional accountability for predictably inferior health outcomes for New Jersey’s vulnerable populations? How do public health deficits intersect with other institutions such as housing policy?
• Equitable Growth, Economic Policy and Innovative Public and Private Finance: CLiME’s economic research has focused on equitable public finance and small business access to public and private contracts. The work continues with innovative investment modeling for social impact, fintech applications and equitable economic policymaking.
• Civil Rights Institute: This new addition studies the empirical requirements for satisfying changing legal doctrines, such as disparate impact proof.

These positions will be responsible for (but not limited to) producing regular, high quality public scholarship on novel matters, requiring:

• Demonstrated research capability on issues of social policy, poverty, race discrimination, economic marginalization, housing and land use and possess the hard skills for empirical study
• Experience with real estate finance, civil rights remedies, public health systems, local government regulatory mechanics, environmental justice, community economic development strategy and financing, tax or urban planning are relevant
• Assisting the executive director in research and writing projects
• Initiating independent research projects
• Supervising student research assistants.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Requires a minimum of a master’s degree in public policy, public administration, political science or relevant social science degree, or JD, with knowledge of fair housing law and policy, poverty and wealth dynamics, economic policy, government decision-making and sensitivity to diverse community dynamics
• Requires a minimum of three years of related experience
• Excellent communication skills and computer literacy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge in public health theory and practice, with emphasis on issues affecting racial health disparities, social determinants of health, violence, psychological trauma and community health care and child welfare in order to produce policy interventions that demonstrably change health outcomes for under-resourced people and communities.
• PhD, MPH or related advanced study as well as professional policy experience

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Requires a desire to impact law and policy with respect to inequality
• Substantial research skills, ability to communicate effectively and very strong writing experience.
• Candidates must be comfortable working cooperatively in interdisciplinary contexts

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