Job Opportunity: Research Director
The Organization
California YIMBY is a statewide housing advocacy organization dedicated to
ending the housing shortage and making California an affordable place for
everyone to live, work, and raise a family. California YIMBY is not a
traditional non-profit: we reject the policy and political status-quo and
work to realize fundamental evidence-based change to California’s housing
policies, which would benefit tens-of-millions of people. Founded in 2017,
California YIMBY has redefined the national housing debate by sponsoring
transformative legislation like SB 50, and has helped draft and pass 12
bills that broke down exclusionary barriers and will enable millions of new
homes to be built.
The Opportunity
California YIMBY is seeking a full-time Research Director to lead our
research activities, to coordinate research efforts with partner academics
and researchers, to write for academic and lay audiences, and to represent
California YIMBY at events and in the media. This research will inform
California YIMBY’s advocacy agenda.
The Research Director will report to the new Policy Director, develop and
carry out California YIMBY’s research agenda, including identifying new
research opportunities, devising and conducting studies, and formulating
policy proposals informed by their research.
The Research Director will:
Design and implement a research program that helps inform California
YIMBY’s advocacy.
Conduct independent research, produce policy papers, briefs, and content
explaining housing research.
Host periodic educational events featuring researchers and their work.
Coordinate research efforts with partner researchers and institutions.
Work with the communications team to translate academic research into
materials intended for non-academic audiences.
Coordinate public events featuring housing researchers.
Draft responses to fallacious scholarship and media claims.
Represent California YIMBY at events and in the media through press
interviews, op-eds, blogs, and social media.
Collaborate with senior staff and the development department to write
research grants and other development efforts.
Minimum qualifications
Possess strong writing and communication skills, strong organizational,
analytical, and project management abilities, and be comfortable working on
a distributed team. Have experience working with data sources such as the
Census/ACS, PUMS, and HMDA, and with identifying, collecting, cleaning, and
analyzing datasets to elucidate social phenomena. The successful applicant
will have a passion to end the housing crisis and a minimum of 2 years of
relevant professional or academic experience.
Preferred qualifications
PhD or equivalent degree in Economics, Political Science, Planning, Public
Policy, or equivalent field and a minimum of 3 years of relevant research
experience, with a focus in at least one of the following areas: urban
policy, affordable housing, land use, or real estate. Knowledge of federal,
state, and municipal housing programs or land use regulations is strongly
preferred. Management experience is desirable.
Diversity. Equity. Inclusion
These are not just words at California YIMBY. These values are key to
furthering our mission to make California an affordable place to live,
work, and raise a family. Representation matters, especially in our work to
end the housing crisis. A crisis that, by design, continues to
disproportionately impact communities of color. To address that historic
and ongoing inequity, we are building a YIMBY movement that reflects
California’s rich diversity and we actively seek diverse candidates with
broad professional and lived experience.
California YIMBY is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is
committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants.
California YIMBY recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and
administers all personnel actions without regard to age, ancestry, color,
disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and
medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic
information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status,
national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex
(includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical
conditions), and sexual orientation. California YIMBY will consider
qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Apply
Email your resume, cover letter, and research portfolio which includes
two-three pieces for which you were the sole or principal responsible
author to [log in to unmask] Successful first stage candidates will be asked
to provide professional or academic references and additional work samples.
Location: California remote, preferably Oakland or Sacramento.
Salary: $80,000 – $110,000, depending upon experience.
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David Broockman
Associate Professor, Travers Department of Political Science, University of
California, Berkeley
Website: https://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/david-broockman
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