Summer Special Project Research Coordinator -Grow Pittsburgh

Chatham University • Pittsburgh, PA

4d • $18

About The Position

We value our students! If you see an open position that is right for you, we encourage you to apply! The Center for Regional Agriculture, Food, and Transformation (CRAFT) seeks a Special Project Research Coordinator to support a Green and Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI)-funded project with Grow Pittsburgh. This project will work to collect, collate, and analyze data to complete a Western Pennsylvania Food Infrastructure Study. At CRAFT, we center community in our pursuit of transformative regional food systems that value the people who live and work within them. We envision a food system that is equitable, fostering fairness and transparency across the value chain. This is a 10hr/week position for a total of 150 hrs for the summer 2026 semester. Pay is $18/hour. There is potential to expand this position into fall 2026 and beyond. Chatham University strives to promote a campus environment that understands and embraces multiculturalism while increasing individuals' intercultural competence. We actively work to build and sustain a diverse and culturally vibrant campus, which promotes employee and student success and retention. Chatham University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity. Chatham University does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, age, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital or family status, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that’s unique about our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to success, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it’s our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in our area.

Requirements

• Ability to self-manage time, self-start, and work independently on a time-sensitive project
• Comfort in data gathering, academic research, literature reviews, thematic analysis and report generation
• Organization and attention to detail

Nice To Haves

• An understanding of food processing, aggregation, and distribution systems, food hub models and/or community economic development particularly in the Western Pennsylvania and Appalachian region.
• Food systems, non-profit, or similar work
• Canva, Google Workspace, or other design and collaboration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the completion of a national benchmarking and best practices analysis using a mixed methods approach.
• Identify best practices in use nationally by developing a review covering existing regionally-specific food systems infrastructure research and relevant literature.
• Identify models of aggregation and distribution in use in community food systems in the United States and develop analysis of successful processes and connections.
• Time will be allotted to attend relevant project meetings, complete foundational research and review all project specific methodologies.
• All current student employees should notify their other manager(s) if you work multiple jobs on campus at the same time.
• Additionally, students may not work more than 20 hours per week (combined between all campus jobs) during the academic year.
• Students may not exceed 980 work hours per calendar year.
• Student jobs do not automatically roll over to the next academic year or summer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees