Adjunct Research Faculty – NSF STEM Education & Workforce

Job Description:

• Contribute STEM education or engineering/CS education research design, methods, and scholarly framing for university-hosted sponsored projects
• Collaborate with institutional PIs, school-district or community-college partners, and WIL research leads on research questions, curricula translation, and broader-impacts narratives
• Support K-14 educator research-experience models, classroom/curriculum follow-on, and workforce pathway documentation when the project design calls for it
• Produce high-quality written products — literature framing, methods sections, evaluation plans, progress reports, and past-performance narrative — suitable for NSF-style and related education packages
• Contribute specialist qualifications and citeable past projects to WIL grant and sponsored-research packages when permissioned

Requirements:

• Doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials in engineering education, STEM education, computer science education, learning sciences, or a closely related field — or substantial faculty-equivalent research experience in those domains
• Demonstrated record of STEM education, teacher professional development, technician education, or engineering/CS education research (publications, funded projects, or citeable institutional roles)
• Ability to collaborate with university or community-college sponsored-research teams and K-14 or industry education partners
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires
• Prior NSF STEM education, RET Site, ATE, RIEF/RFE, IUSE, or related education-research experience as PI, co-PI, senior personnel, or key collaborator
• Experience mentoring engineering faculty new to education research, or translating authentic research into K-14 classroom practice
• Prior projects you can cite (agency or institution, your role, year)