Working directly under the leadership and supervision of the ENLACES Research Director, the Research Assistant plays a vital role in supporting research project start-up activities, including establishing operational workflows, creating project timelines, building data collection protocols, drafting IRB applications, coordinating initial partner convenings, and grant proposal drafting. The incumbent plays a key role to enact, implement, and write-up implementation and impact research, generate research deliverables, and support research-practice partnerships (RPPs) across the organization -such as literature reviews, research and policy reviews, peer-reviewed publication drafts, grant proposal drafts, and practitioner-friendly research briefs.