Lab Manager Position @ Georgetown University, Washington DC

The Department of Psychology at Georgetown University is seeking a full-time lab manager for Dr. Casey Brown’s laboratory, the CARES Lab. The lab’s research investigates interpersonal emotional phenomena in connection with mental and physical health across the life course, with a particular focus on aging dyads. Our research bridges multiple domains of inquiry, drawing from clinical psychology, social and health psychology, affective neuroscience, and aging. This is a two-year position that starts as early as May 2025. 

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will assist with an ongoing R00 from the National Institute on Aging focused on Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in dyads where one individual has a neurodegenerative disorder.

• Building and maintaining lab infrastructure (e.g., purchasing, setting up computers and other hardware, developing internal data storage systems, developing lab manual)
• Conducting research (e.g., writing IRBs, recruiting participants, collecting data, analyzing data including behavior, eye-tracking, peripheral physiology, and neuroimaging data, and sharing results through papers, posters, and talks)
• Supporting lab research (e.g., assisting other lab members with literature searches, study design, stimuli preparation, data collection, analyses, manuscript and grant preparation)
• Building and supporting the lab community (e.g., facilitating lab communication and organizing lab events)
• Hiring and managing a team of undergraduate research assistants
• Overseeing lab budget and finances (e.g., allocating expenses, verifying accuracy of cost accounting, communicating with campus finance team)

Qualifications:

Minimum 

• A bachelor's degree
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
• Motivated, detail-oriented, efficient, and able to work independently
• Ability to sometimes work nonstandard hours (e.g., evenings, weekends), depending on participant availability
• The final candidate must successfully pass a background check and approval by Georgetown University

Preferred 

• Proficiency with statistical and programming languages/software (e.g., SPSS, R, MATLAB, java, python)
• Prior experience conducting empirical research on questions related to the lab’s research focus

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