Background
The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) project is nearly a decade-old community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership between North and South Lawndale communities and the University of Illinois in Chicago. GLHW Project is a research project in the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Healthy Work, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Total Worker Health Center of Excellence (Grant: U19OH010154).
RA Position
The GLHW Research Assistant (RA) will provide support of the GLHW community-driven, evidence-based interventions to foster a culture of healthy work at the neighborhood level. Support will include assisting with intervention development, evaluation and academic- community partnership development.
The RA will work closely with the Principal Investigator Jeni Hebert-Beirne, GLHW staff, and the GLHW Council co-chairs and members. The RA will join a large research team that includes two staff members, two student partners, four co-investigators and nearly a dozen community research partners. This person should exhibit excellent time management skills and flexibility needed to work within the iterative, reflective, and emerging timelines of CBPR. The ideal candidate is a resident of or has established connections to people and organizations in Greater Lawndale.
The RA will work closely with the Principal Investigator Jeni Hebert-Beirne, GLHW staff, and the GLHW Council co-chairs and members. The RA will join a large research team that includes two staff members, two student partners, four co-investigators and nearly a dozen community research partners. This person should exhibit excellent time management skills and flexibility needed to work within the iterative, reflective, and emerging timelines of CBPR. The ideal candidate is a resident of or has established connections to people and organizations in Greater Lawndale.
Time commitment: The RA position is 10 hours per week for 8 weeks starting 8/22/23 until 12/15/23 with the possibility of continuing into the Spring 2024 semester. There is no tuition waiver with this position.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in carrying out the following aim for GLHW Project Subcommittee #1 Employer Certification Program (SC #1):
- To shift the ecology of largely precarious, local jobs to a landscape of healthy jobs by increasing the number of businesses that apply healthy work principles by implementing a community-owned GLHW Certification Program.
- Assist in carrying out the following aim for GLHW Project Subcommittee #2 Worker Cooperatives (SC #2):
- To increase community ownership and wealth through increasing GLHW cooperatives. We will conduct a mixed-methods feasibility study including a neighborhood readiness survey, focus groups and case studies, building off of our community education workshops on cooperatives.
- Assist with creating the subcommittee protocol, including conducting literature reviews, creating budgets, producing logic models, and updating Gannt charts.
- Engage in the science-related activities, including data collection and analysis, evaluation, knowledge translation and dissemination.
- Assist SC Lead with administrative tasks such as setting meetings, taking notes, and creating PPT meeting slides.
- Attend regular GLHW team meetings.
- Utilize Microsoft Teams and email for communication with team.
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