Part-Time Research Assistant: Baby's First Years

Posting Summary:
The Part-Time Research Assistant (RA) will assist in staffing the Baby’s First Years telephone hotline for research participants; assist in coordinating volunteer RA shifts on the hotline, assist in running participant visits in English and Spanish, assisting with administrative tasks, assisting with Institutional Review Board (IRB)-related tasks, and helping organize and code study data.
This position includes work up to 27 hours each week and may require working on weekends.

Job Summary/Basic Function:
The Part-Time Research Assistant (RA) will assist in staffing the Baby’s First Years telephone hotline for research participants; assist in coordinating volunteer RA shifts on the hotline, assist in running participant visits in English and Spanish, assisting with administrative tasks, assisting with Institutional Review Board (IRB)-related tasks, and helping organize and code study data.
This position includes work up to 27 hours each week and may require working on weekends.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Be nimble and creative in solving problems. Possess an ability to identify and meet the needs of research participants while simultaneously advancing organizational goals
• 1-2 years of experience in a related field
• Must have strong quantitative and statistical research skills (familiarity with Excel, REDCap, and Stata a plus).
• MA in psychology, child development, neuroscience, or a related field.
• Experience with assessing childhood cognition, parent-child interactions, physiology, and/or brain development, or equivalent experience working closely with young children.
• Be exceptionally detail-oriented, organized, independent, and adept at multi-tasking.
• Have experience managing staff and building productive working relationships
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Be self-directed, self-motivated, adaptive, and comfortable in a dynamic, but ambiguous environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with experimental (randomized) study designs
• Conversationally fluent proficiency in Spanish (full bilingualism a strong plus)
• Experience working closely with infants and young families from lower income backgrounds

Salary Range:

$30/hr

Work Modality:

Hybrid