Current Graduate Fellowship Positions

Englewood Women's Initiative 

This position is to work and eventually take a co-leadership role with the evaluation research for the Englewood Women’s Initiative (EWI). The EWI is funded by the Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) and is comprised of several social service organizations working together to connect mothers with low-incomes living in the Englewood neighborhood with needed services and programs. CURL designed the original evaluation plan for the Initiative and has been developing and implementing data-collection and feedback procedures since its beginning in 2017. The position requires technical skills in database management and design, excellent oral and written communication skills (for report writing and presentations), and experience conducting interviews/focus groups with front line staff, funders, and EWI participants. The ideal candidate is comfortable facilitating conversations with and presenting to diverse audiences, is committed to a participant-centered, social justice approach to evaluation research, and takes initiative to troubleshoot and present ideas/solutions as the opportunities arise. This will be a full-time 20 hr/wk fellowship position that the grad fellow will be expected to co-lead.  

 

Erie Neighborhood House 

This position is to assist in managing a wide-ranging multi-year set of evaluation, planning, and training projects with Erie Neighborhood House Little Village and their Proyecto Cuidate, which aims to create safe spaces to promote wellness in the predominantly Latino/a Little Village community and beyond through case management and counseling, education and empowerment groups, and youth programming. The projects with Erie are dynamic and require flexibility, responsiveness, and the ability to come up with creative solutions to the organization’s needs as they arise. Technical skills needed include survey design, database management and/or development, and evaluation planning. This position will be a part-time 20 hr/wk fellowship position that may be combined with another CURL project.  

 

Two-Generation Housing and Neighborhood Study 

This position is to work with the research for the Two-Generation Housing and Neighborhood Study taking place in Chicago and Cook County. The study will conduct interviews with household heads and youth in Chicago and Cook County to help understand the kinds of policy interventions that can assist low-income families live in low-poverty, opportunity-rich neighborhoods. There are a few roles available for this project including a project coordinator and two research interviewers: 

Project Coordinator: 

The project coordinator will conduct interviews and oversee transcription, as well as manage participant recruitment and coordinate and manage data collection by the study team. The project coordinator will have the opportunity to contribute to data coding and analysis and potentially be a co-author of research report(s) produced from the study. This individual should be a graduate student with past interview experience. A driver's license and access to a car is necessary for recruiting participants and conducting these interviews. The coordinator should be able to come to Loyola' Lakeshore campus regularly to manage recruitment, data storage and data processing. Past experience interviewing teenagers will be considered favorably in the application review. 

Interviewer:  

Interviewers will be in charge of recruiting participants and conducting interviews with adults and/or teens. Interviewers must have a driver's license and access to a car. Interviews will take place in-person when possible, so interviewers should plan to be residing in the Chicago area. Past interview experience is not required, but such experience or experience working with low-income teens will be considered favorably in the application review.