Peer Reviewers Sought for Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3)
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is seeking non-Federal experts to serve as peer reviewers of applications submitted for Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3), a unique interagency initiative that enables state, local, and tribal governments to test innovative, cost-effective, and outcome-focused strategies to improve outcomes for disconnected youth. More information about P3 can be found at www.youth.gov/P3.
Expertise in Serving Disconnected Youth
To review P3 applications, ED is seeking individuals with expertise in the implementation of policies, programs, and practices to improve the education, employment, and other key outcomes of disconnected youth populations, such as youth who are homeless, in foster care, justice-involved, unemployed, or not enrolled in or at risk of dropping out of an educational institution.
Expertise in Evaluation and Research
To review P3 applicants’ proposed evaluation plans, ED is seeking individuals with expertise in evaluations and research studies that are randomized controlled trials or that use quasi-experimental designs.
Reviewers will be compensated for their service. Individuals interested in serving as a reviewer of P3 applications or applicants’ proposed evaluation plans should submit their resumes or curricula vitae to disconnectedyouth@ed.gov by June 17, 2016. Individuals who have already submitted resumes need not do so again.
There will be two rounds of peer review. We expect that the first round of peer review will be carried out shortly after July 4, 2016 and that the second round will occur in mid- to late September 2016. The reviews will be conducted remotely using ED’s e-Reader system. The reviews will last approximately two weeks.
ED solicits reviewers without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, age or disability. ED will provide reasonable accommodations for a qualified individual with a disability so that the individual might participate in the review process.
Please note that you may not serve as a reviewer for this competition if you have a conflict of interest. Generally, you will be considered to have a conflict of interest when you, or certain individuals and entities with which you have a relationship, have a financial interest in the outcome of the P3 competition. You have a conflict of interest if:
- You agreed to serve as an employee, advisor, contractor or consultant on a project for which funding is being sought in a P3 application, or have been offered the opportunity to do so and have not yet accepted or declined the offer, based on whether a grant is awarded;
- Your personal financial interests will be affected by the outcome of the competition;
- You helped to prepare an application in the competition, even if you have no financial interest in the outcome of that application; or
- You have a relationship with an entity or individual that has a financial interest in the outcome of the competition, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) your spouse, your child, a member of your household, or any relative with whom you have a close relationship; (2) any employer with whom you have served within the last 12 months, a business partner, an organization for which you have served as an officer, director, consultant, advisor, contractor, or trustee within the last 12 months, or an organization for which you serve as an active volunteer or participant; (3) any person or organization with whom you are seeking, or has an arrangement concerning, future employment; (4) any professional associate, including, but not limited to, any colleague, scientific mentor, or student with whom you are currently conducting research or other professional activities or with whom you have conducted such activities within the last 12 months; (5) or any individual with whom you have, or have had, a personal relationship where the nature, duration, or recentness of that relationship would impair your ability to impartially review any application in the competition.
If you have any questions about the peer review process and/or potential conflicts of interest please contact disconnectedyouth@ed.gov.