Join the Community Engagement Professional Competency Research Fellows Team – Nov 11

Posted by Campus Compact on October 29, 2024

Our research team is reaching out with an opportunity to be part of the project team updating the Community Engagement Professionals Competency Model (Dostilio, 2017). Please consider applying and/or circulating with your networks.

Purpose & Overview

The research fellow’s purpose is to implement the research process to assemble a refined competency model for Community Engagement Professionals in coordination with the other research fellows and the Principal Investigators. Within their application, research fellows will indicate the top two functional areas of CEP that most interest them and upon selection to join the team, will be assigned to a specific functional area of focus for the duration of the research project. Research fellows will meet regularly with the Primary Investigators as a full research team and with an assigned co-research fellow within their functional area.

Supervision

Research Fellows will report to and receive support from the Principal Investigator and project leaders.

Key Responsibilities

Research

• With an additional co-researcher, conduct a literature review and qualitative inquiry within a specific functional area of community engagement practice
• With an additional co-researcher, conduct 4-6 semi-structured interviews with community engagement professionals representative of the same functional area as the literature review
• Develop a qualitative portrait of a professional in this specific functional area.
• Engage in the dissemination of the results of the research through the completion of a co-authored literature review resource and book chapter with additional co-researcher

Contribution to Research Group

• Attend monthly meetings with the Principal Investigator, project leaders and research team.
• Upon completion of the literature review and interviews, engage in facilitated discussions that identify a select number of “core” competencies (areas of shared knowledge, skill, disposition, and critical commitments) that are central for all CEPs to acquire. Fellows will contribute literature references to the project team that substantiate those areas of “core” competence.
• Participate, at the fellow’s discretion and level of interest, in presentations about the project and in dissemination opportunities post-publication.

Qualifications

Candidates for Research Fellows will generally have two or more years of experience as a Community Engagement Professional within the identified functional area representative of the area they are researching, previous research experience, and the ability to excel in a collaborative working posture. The functional areas include Anchor & Economic Opportunity, Extension, Place-Based Engagement, Chief Engagement Leadership, Social Impact Research, Community Affairs, Cross-Functional Practice. Student-Centered Engagement, Faculty-Focused Engagement and Community Partnerships.

Application Deadline

The priority deadline for applications will be Monday, November 11. After the priority deadline, applications will be reviewed until all fellows are selected.

Learn more here.

ACCESS APPLICATION HERE

If you have any questions or comments, please email Dr. Justin Dandoy, CEP Competencies Research Team Coordinator at justin.dandoy@pitt.edu.