Lab Manager Position @ University of California, Riverside CA

The Childhood Cognition Lab at UCR is seeking a full-time lab coordinator, to begin August 2024. The duration for the position is one year with the opportunity for renewal based on funding, department needs, and performance. Under the supervision of Dr. Rebekah Richert, the lab conducts research on cultural influences on cognitive development in early childhood and has a leadership role with the Developing Belief Network (https://www.developingbelief.com/). The lab coordinator will work with undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral researchers on projects related to children’s religious and supernatural concept development. Duties include managing and leading research projects in the lab: designing studies, creating stimuli, recruiting participants, testing children and adults, coding videotaped interactions, data entry, analyzing data, and participating in the final synthesis of research for publication. The position also involves administrative duties, such as interviewing, hiring, training, and scheduling undergraduate volunteers, managing participant recruitment, purchasing equipment, and planning lab events and meetings. For more information about the lab, visit https://www.childcoglab.org/.

Responsibilities:

• 50% Lab organization (ordering supplies/equipment, recruitment participants, organizing and maintaining schedule or participants)
• 20% Assisting with laboratory research ( collecting data from behavioral experiments, creating movies, graphical, and sound stimuli using Adobe Premier, Photoshop, Audition, and other similar computer programs, data code entry, coding and analysis using Qualtrics, SPSS, Excel, or related software)
• 20% Managing lab staff (teach incoming staff aforementioned techniques or use of equipment, organizing schedules for students and lab staff
• 10% Planning grant related events (assist PI in grant-related event planning, including organizing advisory board meetings and conference planning)

Qualifications:

Required

• A Bachelors Degree in Psychology, Human Development, Cognitive Science or related field
• A valid driver license 
• Proficiency in conducting statistical with SPSS, R, or another statistical package
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage students and research assistants in a laboratory setting
• Excellent skills working with children and parents in a research setting

Preferred

• Advanced computer skills such as programing experience in Qualtrics, R, MATLAB and/or Python
• Advanced audio, movie, or graphic creation skills
• Ability to occasionally work on an evening or weekend to assist in recruitment of experimental participants and gathering experimental data

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