Specialist -Senior Project Director

Working with significant independence, in conjunction with faculty and staff, the Specialist (SPD-Senior Project Director) leads the development (i.e., preparation of contract and grant applications, and establishment of new contracts or grants) and implementation (i.e., project management and delivery) of social welfare research and evaluation projects, at the local, state, and federal levels for the Agile Visual Analytics Lab (AVAL). The Specialist (SPD) also collaborates with other AVAL senior staff to advise on the development and implementation of strategic plans, policies, and procedures to achieve AVAL's department goals. The Specialist (SPD) supports processes to identify and address needs for department-level technologies, staff development, and other resources to ensure efficient and effective operations. The UCLA Agile Visual Analytics Lab (AVAL) empowers national, state, and local stakeholders to use data to make more timely and sound decisions impacting children, families, communities, and the workforces that serve them. We do this through 1) putting vital information into the hands of stakeholders in the form of data visualizations that efficiently and effectively meet their diverse and dynamic information needs, 2) implementing utilization-focused and developmental evaluation of programs and policies of mission-driven organizations and systems, and 3) building the capacity of systems and organizations to grow, use, and sustain data ecosystems. In these ways we work with our partners in different capacities, depending on their specific needs, ranging from leading full-scale evaluations to data collection, data management and processing, and data visualization. MA/MS required #J-18808-Ljbffr David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA