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Business Development Associate (Part-Time)

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Join AIR as a Business Development Associate and use your experience and knowledge to help us deliver on our mission: to generate and use rigorous evidence that contributes to a better, more equitable world for all.

The Business Development Associate supports the team by identifying, researching, and distributing new business opportunities across the organization, helping ensure relevant procurement opportunities reach the right teams in a timely manner. This is a temporary, part-time position (up to 50% FTE) and is well-suited to someone with a working understanding of the business development and Request for Proposal (RFP) process.

This position has the flexibility to work remotely within the United States (U.S.) or from one of our U.S. office locations. This does not include U.S. territories.

About AIR:

Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance to address some of the most pressing challenges in the United States and globally. We generate evidence and apply data-driven solutions that expand opportunities and improve lives for all.

Responsibilities:

  • Review daily saved/automated searches across federal and State, Local, and Education (SLED) procurement sources to assess new opportunities for fit against organizational capabilities and priorities. 
  • Distribute identified opportunities to the appropriate client services and leadership teams in a timely manner, flagging p
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Key Role Focus:

Assesses rigorous methodological precision, objective research integrity, and the ability to translate complex data science into actionable public policy.

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  • 1. Advancing a partisan agenda or showing bias in research interpretation.
  • 2. Prioritizing speed over empirical rigor and peer-reviewed validity.
  • 3. Inability to explain complex quantitative models to non-technical policymakers.
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I combine rigorous statistical methodologies with clear policy communication to ensure research directly drives equitable societal outcomes.

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