Senior Researcher, Suicide Prevention and Safety Outcomes

About the Role

AIR seeks a Senior Researcher for the Human and Community Development program to advance evidence and practice related to suicide prevention in the military, law enforcement, and community with an understanding on broad safety and justice systems. This position will focus on prevention science with emphasis on preventing violence and other forms of harmful behaviors. The Senior Researcher will lead and/or manage complex research and evaluation efforts; collaborate with internal and external partners, including federal, state, and local agencies; and contribute to strategic visioning that strengthens suicide prevention and safety outcomes, and provide mentorship and guidance to teams. This position will also provide oversight on data collection, management, analysis, and visualization for contract and grant research and evaluation projects. The ideal candidate is committed to building out our prevention portfolio, particularly in suicide prevention, and taking a strengths-based perspective. We are especially interested in candidates that have direct experience with suicide prevention, preferably in the military, law enforcement, and justice system context, and who have strong project and people management skills.

Content Areas

• Suicide prevention
• Public health approach to primary prevention of violence, such as community violence, youth violence, intimate partner and sexual violence, child maltreatment and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
• Military communities, readiness, and resilience
• Systems change, including organizational and culture change in community-serving systems and in the military
• Public health workforce competencies and career pipelines
• Data visualization and dissemination