Research Coordinator Position @ NYU, New York NY

Dr. Pamela Morris-Perez is seeking a full-time Research Coordinator/Senior Research Coordinator to join her research team, to begin August 2024. Dr. Morris-Perez's work spans three projects across two topical areas (early childhood school readiness and adolescent suicide): 1) the study of preventive parenting interventions in pediatric care with a focus on COVID-19 influences on parents and children (and particularly drawing from a study we conducted called Smart Beginnings); 2) addressing an innovative school-based mental health/suicide prevention program in the form of a film contest, "Directing Change," that can be a catalyst for changing norms for suicide prevention school- and community-wide; and 3) addressing rising rates of attempts of Black youth through a systems-level strategy of screening and connecting youth to care who present to the emergency department. For a description of Dr. Morris-Perez's portfolio of research, please visit her NYU Faculty Bio page. Our team is committed to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our practices as a research team, the content of our research, and our interactions with participants and partners.

The Research Coodinator will work across all three projects, supporting postdoctoral/doctoral leads for each one. Dr. Morris-Perez's team is currently hybrid (remote/in-person) and candidates should be able to come to the office on the NYU Washington Square campus all or most days of the week to ensure coordination with senior and junior staff members on the projects. This is a 12-month position with the opportunity for extension for an additional year or more, pending available funding.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating (remotely) with part-time staff in California for data collection with schools for the study of Directing Change and onboarding and coordinating undergraduate intern-level staff in New York City;
• Monitoring data collection, data systems, and data quality in Qualtrics, Excel, and REDCap, including editing existing instruments and tracking responses;
• Preparing protocols and documentation for submission to the Institutional Review Board;
• Supporting the coding of qualitative data via student/school staff interviews, including overseeing the transcription of those data;
• Cleaning data and recoding variables in Stata or R, generating basic data reports, and running basic descriptive analyses using Excel or Stata/R;
• Supporting and maintaining systems of data documentation and management including codebooks, data manuals, memos, and guides to datasets;
• Research tasks such as literature reviews, tabling results, preparing presentations;
• Research administrative work such as documenting project decisions, creating systems for tracking and sharing information, organizing meetings, and coordinating travel;
• General grants management, including tracking expenses, setting up reimbursements, and drafting progress/final reports, and compiling materials for reports to funding agencies at the end of each grant cycle.

Qualifications:

• B.A. degree in psychology, education, or related social science field by May/June 2024 (M.A. preferred for Senior Coordinator level)
• 1-2 years of experience working on research teams, preferably in fields related to Morris-Perez's work (internship and part-time positions during undergraduate studies included; some full-time experience required for Senior Coordinator level)
• Experience tracking data collection using automated systems (e.g., in Excel and Google Sheets)
• Experience working with quantitative data (e.g., creating, interpreting, and using tables summarizing data), experience with qualitative data a plus
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to manage and follow through with multiple activities with varying timelines and leaders
• Ability to work well both independently and collaboratively on complex tasks
• Experience with survey design, database creation, and tracking software preferred (e.g., Qualtrics, REDCap, Excel)
• Experience with data cleaning and scale creation in a statistical software package preferred (SAS, STATA, R, etc.)
• Commitment to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion

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