The Corners Associate Project Director provides essential research project leadership for the center’s growing portfolio of research and evaluation projects focused on gun violence prevention. This includes strategic and operational research project direction, maintaining strong partnerships with project partners and other key stakeholders, cultivating new partnerships and projects, developing research project grants and proposals, overseeing the development of publications, reports, and other deliverables, and working with the center’s executive and senior leadership team to develop and monitor strategic centerwide priorities. The program director will play a key role on Corners’ growing leadership team.

The Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science (CORNERS) at Northwestern University is seeking an accomplished and visionary Senior Research Director to lead its research initiatives. The Senior Research Director will be responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and dissemination of CORNERS’ research projects, ensuring they align with the organization’s mission to address pressing social issues through neighborhood-engaged research.