Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation.

Terner Center Open Positions:

Research Director

The Terner Center seeks an accomplished, thoughtful Research Director to lead its efforts to produce timely, evidence-driven and policy-relevant research. The Research Director oversees Terner Center’s research team including providing direct supervision to the Associate Research Directors, who are each responsible for a specific area of housing policy research, while supporting their supervision of research staff and graduate students. As part of the Leadership Team, the Research Director works collaboratively with Terner Center’s senior leadership to grow the organization’s scope and reach in line with the Terner Center’s mission, while working to align research and organizational priorities with available resources.

The Research Director brings a broad set of research design skills to this role, along with an orientation toward staff development and strong supervisory skills. We are particularly interested in candidates that have a record of policy research in areas such as affordable housing and/or real estate development, land use, poverty and welfare, or urban policy and planning, and who have conducted research for both academic and policy audiences. The ideal candidate is curious and engaged with all things housing, and their work is aligned with the Terner Center’s ethos of pursuing both transformative and pragmatic solutions to the nation’s housing crisis. For this leadership position, candidates must have a strategic perspective, the ability to collaborate within the leadership team to foster alignment on organizational goals, and the ability to represent the organization externally. The Research Director will be expected to oversee the research team’s budget and participate in fundraising activities.

The Terner Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity. Terner Center seeks candidates with the skills and experience to contribute to our goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion in our internal management practices and to produce research and policy work that furthers equity goals. We welcome and encourage applications that reflect a variety of backgrounds based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, ideology, lived experience of housing challenges, and other statuses protected by law.

This position will be located at the Terner Center’s offices in Oakland, California but flexibility may be available for hybrid work. Salary will be between $175,150 – 209,900 annually, commensurate with experience.

Position is open until filled. Review of applications will begin March 1st, 2023.

For external candidates, please apply via the link here.

For internal UCB candidates, please apply via the link here.

Associate Research Director

The Terner Center seeks talented Associate Research Directors to join our research team. These positions will oversee a research portfolio and staff and will help advance a specific portfolio of housing-related work. The Associate Research Director’s primary responsibility is to lead a research portfolio in support of the Terner Center’s work to address the multiple, layered crises of housing affordability, entrenched inequities, and climate change.  Reporting to the Research Director, the Associate Research Director identifies, designs and leads both short-term and long-term research projects, provides supervision to staff researchers and graduate students, and assists in managing the budget and funding relationships relevant to the assigned research portfolio.

The Terner Center is prioritizing candidates who bring expertise in either of two areas: 1) land use and housing supply, including issues related to zoning, regulations, and the costs of development;  and 2) housing topics related to climate change and environmental sustainability. The Associate Research Director will maintain focus on a particular subject area, staying current on research literature and leading research projects that speak to urgent policy needs, while still being able to cover other housing related topics depending on need and capacity.

The Associate Research Director will have research expertise in one of the areas mentioned above, as well as a broad set of qualitative and quantitative research skills capable of executing impactful work in a fast-paced environment. The ability to understand research as a lever for policy change, along with the ability to collaborate across the Terner Center’s Research & Policy team and with other external research partners and stakeholders, is critically important.

Terner Center seeks candidates with the skills and experience to contribute to our goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion in our internal management practices and to produce research and policy work that furthers equity goals. We welcome and encourage applications that reflect a variety of backgrounds based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, ideology, lived experience of housing challenges, and other statuses protected by law.

This position will be located at the Terner Center’s offices in Oakland, California but flexibility may be available to work on a hybrid basis. Salary will be between $138,250 – 164,400 annually, commensurate with experience.

Position is open until filled. Review of applications will begin March 1st, 2023.

For external candidates, please apply via the link here.

For internal UCB candidates, please apply via the link here.

 

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Terner Labs Open Positions:

Data Scientist, Housing Affordability Data Lab

The Housing Affordability Data Lab at Terner Housing Innovation Labs (Terner Labs) is hiring a Data Scientist to help us build and implement innovative housing policy data tools. We’re seeking an entrepreneurial and dynamic individual to utilize their data management and analysis expertise, policy knowledge, and strong project management skills to work directly with policy leaders and help shape the future of data-backed evidence in housing policy decisions.

As a partner organization of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, Terner Labs transforms innovative research and policy expertise into actionable tools, programs, and partnerships with the public and private sector. The Data Lab program creates data tools and metrics to inform decision-making around housing and land use policy in order to expand access to quality, affordable homes.

Among other projects, the Data Scientist will play a crucial role in the expansion of the Terner Housing Policy Dashboard, our policy simulation tool that allows policymakers to understand how specific housing policy changes or market forces might affect housing development patterns across a city or region.

If interested, please view the full job description and qualifications, then click the link to apply.

Student Opportunities

The Terner Center regularly recruits Graduate and Undergraduate students to assist in a range of projects and roles each semester and over the summer break.

We are not currently soliciting applications for GSRs. Please check back soon for future opportunities.