Monday, August 7, 2023

Research Assistant - Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project, UIC Center for Healthy Work

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).  

If interested in the position, please email Sylvia Gonzalez sgonza43@uic.edu and provide your 
CV/resume by Tuesday, August 15th 2023.

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.  

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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