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Principal Researcher, Youth Development

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead business pursuits, research, evaluation, and technical assistance for federal, state, and local youth development projects.

Role type

Principal Researcher (Business Development & Project Leadership)

Builds

Contract and grant-funded policy, research, and evaluation projects in youth development

Domain

Social Science Research / Youth Development / Public Policy

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Proposal writing, project management, team leadership, grant acquisition, stakeholder relationship management, research design, technical assistance leadership

Preferred skills

Expertise in adolescent health, teen pregnancy prevention, youth economic mobility, out-of-school time programs

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Generate and pursue business development ideas; write proposals for grants/contracts; manage complex research studies as principal investigator; mentor junior colleagues; maintain relationships with funders and clients

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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