Researcher – Educator Workforce Development and Program Evaluation

The UAF Office of K-12 Outreach is seeking an early-career researcher with strong program-evaluation experience to help develop and lead a statewide research agenda focused on Grow Your Own educator workforce development.

K-12 Outreach manages statewide initiatives including the Alaska Statewide Mentor Project and RISE Alaska, which includes the state’s Educators Rising program. Because the office works across programs, institutions, school districts, communities, and statewide partners, it occupies a boundary-spanning role within Alaska’s education system. This position will expand K-12 Outreach’s capacity to understand how these efforts interact and how they collectively contribute to long-term educator workforce development.

The researcher will lead development of an office-wide evaluation framework while building a research agenda examining Grow Your Own workforce strategies through network weaving, mixed-methods research, community-based research practices, and complex systems approaches.

You will be comfortable moving between research, evaluation, partnership development, and practical program improvement. You should enjoy working collaboratively with program staff, university researchers, school districts, state agencies, and community partners to identify meaningful research questions and develop useful evidence. The successful candidate will have experience with program evaluation and both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Experience with surveys, interviews, focus groups, data management, and research design will be important. Familiarity with network analysis, complex systems theory, community-based research, or educator workforce development will be particularly valuable. You should also be able to translate complex findings into clear reports, presentations, visualizations, and recommendations that are useful to both researchers and practitioners.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s degree in education, educational research, program evaluation, social science, public policy, organizational studies, or a related field. Minimum of 4 years of experience in educational program evaluation, including experience coordinating evaluation activities across multiple programs or initiatives.

Demonstrated experience developing and implementing surveys, interviews, focus groups, or other quantitative and qualitative research methods. Demonstrated ability to analyze data and communicate research or evaluation findings to multiple audiences.

Experience or demonstrated familiarity with Institutional Review Board processes and research compliance.

At least five years of related university experience is preferred.

Position must be based in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Position Details:

This position is located on the Troth Yeddha campus in Fairbanks, and flexible on-site/hybrid work arrangements may be considered in accordance with UA regulations. This is a full-time, exempt staff position complete with both a competitive salary and full employee benefits package. UA provides a generous compensation package that includes retirement options, annual leave, 12 paid holidays per year, tuition waivers for employees and family members, and affordable medical, dental and vision care coverage. New hires will be placed on the UA Staff Salary Schedule, Grade 81, based on education and experience.

Application review will begin on September 28, 2026. Applications received by this date will receive priority consideration; however, the recruitment will remain open until filled.

The University of Alaska (UA) requires employees to work on-site based on operational and business needs. Hybrid and remote work arrangements may be considered only for positions specifically designated and advertised as eligible for hybrid or remote work. Any approved arrangement will be based on the position’s duties, operational needs, and the employee’s ability to effectively perform the work remotely.

• ️If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Shea Linnell, K12 Outreach HR Coordinator, at smonsey@alaska.edu.

This is a term-funded position reviewed annually for contract renewal at the University's discretion.

• To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction. Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.

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