Russell Sage Foundation·National focus

Program Assistant

Compensation: $66K – $69K
Location: New York, NY, United States
Remote arrangement: On-site
Role family: Program support
Posted: Posted 15 days ago

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Someone with strong organizational skills and academic research familiarity who can support program officers managing multi-year empirical studies on inequality, criminal justice, and mobility across university and research-institution grantees.

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Russell Sage Foundation

$7.0M

Annual giving

$493M

Total assets

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The Russell Sage Foundation primarily funds rigorous social science research at universities and research institutions that examines inequality, race, crime, poverty, and institutions shaping economic and social mobility. Its grants overwhelmingly support project-based empirical studies and experiments—often multi-year—on topics like policing and criminal justice, racial and political polarization, immigration and family reunification, and the role of higher education in intergenerational mobility. The foundation favors academically led, policy-relevant work rather than direct service delivery.

Empirical social-science research on racial inequality and antiracism (e.g., Origins and Effects of the 2020 antiracism uprisings)
Research on policing, criminal justice reform, and changing carceral attitudes (deep canvass experiments; prosecutor-driven reform studies)
Studies of social and economic mobility related to higher education and stratification (college access, outcomes, and historical mobility analyses)

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