Postdoctoral Fellow, Research & Assessment
The Postdoctoral Fellow, Research & Assessment, will support resource creation for an expanding network of character educators. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the Senior Research Scholar to conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis on several research projects exploring the impact of character education initiatives within the university context. As part of a new grant funded by the John Templeton Foundation, this position will help to produce resources for institutions through developing measurement resources, including validation of new or context-adapted measures, publishing articles that demonstrate the impact of intentional character education efforts in higher education, and contributing to the field in a variety of ways that help equip other institutions in their efforts. We are particularly interested in those with expertise in research methods pertaining to repeated measures quasi-experimental research studies and who may offer innovative ways to assess the impact of applied programming.
Research and Resource Coordinator, Communities of Impact, Educating Character Initiative
The Resource and Research Coordinator will work closely with the Educating Character Initiative leadership team, Managing Director, Director of Communications, and the ECI research and character scholars to assist with data collection and management, support research and resource development, and lead the creation and maintenance of a public-facing community platform. This platform will be an accessible space that provides an interactive, up-to-date, point-in-time landscape analysis of character education’s assets and opportunities; supports community-building by connecting resource creators to each other and to the challenges facing higher education; enables collective learning through tools supporting resource creation and curation (e.g., syllabi, audio-visual material, data, workbooks, how-to guides, stories, and more) from a large number of exceptional and creative character education projects and teams; announces and highlights character-focused employment opportunities; and enables funding agencies to make informed decisions concerning opportunities to support character-focused work.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Communities of Impact, Educating Character Initiative
The role of the postdoctoral fellow will be to work closely with researchers, scholars, and practitioners across the ECI Community to support collective learning through (1) research aimed at understanding the landscape of character education across higher education and showing the impact of intentional character development in higher education contexts; (2) contributions to the design of learning experiences and practical resources equipping institutions to undertake character-building projects adapted to their institutional contexts; and (3) support for the creation and maintenance of a collective learning platform for individuals and institutions in the ECI Community. The postdoctoral fellow will report to the Managing Director of the ECI Communities of Impact and work closely with the ECI research and education teams as well as the staff of the broader Program for Leadership and Character. This position is an excellent fit for recent PhDs, early career scholars, and emerging leaders in character education. The postdoctoral fellowship, which begins July 1, 2026, is grant-funded for one year and, pending satisfactory work, renewable for an additional year.