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Job Opening for Human Subjects Coordinator |
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| Posted by: | Jennifer Eberhardt |
| Title/Position: | Professor of Psychology |
| School/Organization: | Stanford University |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | August 4th, 2007 |
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The Stanford Psychology Department is looking to hire a 2P2, exempt level position, to serve as the Human Subjects Coordinator for a two-year, fixed term. The position will require 40 hours/week (some nights and weekends included). This position will be supervised by the Department Manager and will work closely with the Human Subjects Committee and other faculty and students in the department who frequently use the experiment pools.
Subject Pool Administration (40%): The Human Subjects Coordinator will administer the department’s paid and credit experiment pools. This position will serve as the Department’s customer service for Sona – acting as a liaison between Sona and the researchers and participants. S/he will handle all the administrative duties associated with running the paid and credit experiment pools. S/he will serve as technical support to researchers using Sona and looking to post on-line surveys, and will be a resource to researchers for web programming as it relates to departmental research.
Subject Recruitment (30%): The Coordinator will be responsible for recruiting new participants to the department’s paid and credit experiment pools. S/he will be responsible for identifying (and executing) advertising/recruitment opportunities, and ways that the department can reach out into the surrounding communities for subjects.
Research Coordinator (30%): The Human Subjects Coordinator will also serve as a liaison between researchers in our department, to other departments/schools in the University with experiment pools and to the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. S/he will find out what opportunities there are to share resources, build relationships and collaborate. S/he will also research the different processes and procedures for experiment pools across the University and on other campuses in the hopes of improving our processes.
There will be opportunities in this position to attend lab meetings and become involved with one or more of the Social Psychology labs at Stanford. These labs include the Mind, Culture and Society Lab:
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~mcslab/
the Culture and Emotion Lab:
http://psychology.stanford.edu/%7Etsailab/
and the Dweck Lab.
Qualifications:
Demonstrated experience conducting and participating in experimental research is required for this position. A B.A. or B.S. degree in Psychology or a related research field is required, though a M.A. or M.S, would be preferred. The candidate should be interested in research. Ideally, the candidate will have experience with Experimentrak as a researcher or some equivalent experiment scheduling software. Qualified candidates will likely have experience in producing on-line experiments/surveys, creating websites (HTML and Java), and should have an advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office programs. Statistical or programming knowledge is preferred.
This position requires a high level of organization and problem solving skills. An ideal candidate will exhibit excellent time management, the ability to set priorities, the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and work with minimal direction. A willingness to learn and to participate in training is a must. This position requires excellent communication skills (both written and oral). Other necessary qualities include extreme attention to detail, sensitivity to confidential information, common sense and tact, a high level of energy and enthusiasm, a good sense of humor, flexibility, and a passion for working with people with all kinds of attitudes and personalities. A positive, can-do attitude is a must.
This position will require some off-campus work (posting fliers, ads, etc.). A reliable means of transportation is required.
To apply, please go to http://jobs.stanford.edu/ and look under Research-->Full Time-->Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Job ID: 26493. Thank you, we look forward to reading your application.
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