Remote Decision-Support Synthesis Researcher

University of Minnesota; Minneapolis (MN); A distancia; USD 50.000 - 72.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota invites a Decision Support Researcher to advance synthesis research and decision support science for environmental outcomes. The role focuses on meta-analytic and document-based synthesis across funded projects to enable evidence-based decision making.

The position supports literature reviews, data analysis, and methods development, with a 14-hour weekly cap and funding dependent on external grants.

Formación

• Master's degree with 2 years related experience or BS/BA with 4 years related experience.
• Experience in interdisciplinary sustainability research and social science methods including meta-analysis.
• Experience in one technical area such as drought outlooks, science communication, decision support, stakeholder engagement or mixed-methods approaches.

Responsabilidades

• 80% synthesis research using multidisciplinary social science methods with team collaboration and independent work.
• Conduct literature reviews and formal document analyses with coding methods.
• Qualitative and quantitative data analysis, summarize results, discuss implications.
• Input into mixed-methods research building on document analyses.
• Human subjects data curation and metadata documentation per best practices and grant requirements.
• Co-author or author peer-reviewed publications based on this research.
• 20% Research coordination, project management, and mentorship of IonE Postdoctoral Fellows.

Conocimientos

Synthesis research

Meta-analysis

Qualitative analysis

Quantitative analysis

Literature reviews

Project management

Team collaboration

Academic writing

Interdisciplinary research

Educación

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Basecamp

Google Suite

Descripción del empleo

The Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota invites a Decision Support Researcher to advance synthesis research and decision support science for environmental outcomes. The role focuses on meta-analytic and document-based synthesis across funded projects to enable evidence-based decision making.

The position supports literature reviews, data analysis, and methods development, with a 14-hour weekly cap and funding dependent on external grants.