The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) is looking to hire graduate students on several grant funded or contracted research projects. These are hourly, paid, part-time positions with a commitment of approximately 10 hours a week through the end of the Spring semester. Availability to continue on with TRPI in the summer is a desirable but not necessarily required.
The projects fall into the following topic areas: corporate immigrant integration programs, naturalization programs, immigration reform, language access in healthcare, and institutional capacity for integration and naturalization efforts.
In general, we are looking for Masters students with strong research and writing skills and knowledge of one or more of the previously listed topic areas. The exact qualifications we are looking for will depend on the particular project, but some combination of knowledge of and/or experience in the following areas is desirable: program administration, projections related to institutional capacity, hospital administration, language/diversity services in healthcare, conducting semi-structured interviews, writing literature reviews, policy implementation analysis, naturalization efforts from an administrative context, digital publishing and dissemination, and creating and managing websites using Wordpress.
If you are interested in applying to work with TRPI, please submit your resume to Anna Fischer, ajfische@usc.edu. In the body of the email, please include what topic area(s) interest you and a short statement about your skills and experience.
About TRPI. The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, housed at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, was long recognized as one of the nation's oldest and most well-recognized think tanks on Latino issues. It was relaunched in 2011 as a university research center under the direction of Professor Roberto Suro with a broadened focus that views the growth of the Latino population as a point of departure for a wide range of inquiries. The research mission of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute is to help resolve policy challenges arising from demographic diversity in the 21st century global city. It uses the Los Angeles metropolitan area as a laboratory for the development of public policy that is widely applicable to other communities undergoing demographic change as a result of immigration. Beyond its research mission, the Institute organizes student activities and academic convening and will develop a portfolio of digital dissemination platforms.
Anna Fischer
Program Coordinator, Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI)
University of Southern California
Sol Price School of Public Policy
3434 S. Grand CAL 130-06
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2816
(213) 821-8178 | (314) 221-782
