Research Specialist I

Princeton University; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 41,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible hours

Professional development

Job summary

A prestigious university is seeking a clinical coordinator to recruit participants and administer assessments for behavioral studies. The role includes collaborating with researchers, planning new studies, and maintaining study protocols. Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor's degree in Psychology or Neuroscience and have experience with clinical interviews and recruitment. This full-time position offers a salary of $41,000 to $60,000, with benefits included.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in a relevant field like Psychology or Neuroscience.
• Experience with IRB protocols is preferred.
• Willingness to commit to the position for at least two years.

Responsibilities

• Recruit participants for online and in-person studies.
• Administer clinical interviews and cognitive tasks.
• Update IRB protocols for studies as needed.
• Assist in planning new studies.

Skills

Experience with structured clinical interviews (SCIDs)

Recruiting participants with mental health conditions

Administering clinical assessments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Neuroscience or related field

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. The position involves recruiting participants with mental health conditions, as well as healthy controls, for behavioral studies; administering clinical assessments, cognitive batteries and self report instruments to the study participants and running the behavioral tasks. Additional responsibilities include working with researchers at Princeton and Rutgers to identify and design new studies that could be run at the Center, writing and updating study protocols for these studies for review by the Institutional Review Board, and coordinating the Center seminar series and workshops.

Note that while the position involves working with researchers and running research studies, this is not primarily a research position. The work is in person, and having a car is helpful as recruitment of participants involves driving to different clinical treatment centers.

This is a one-year term position with the possibility of renewal based on satisfactory performance and continued funding. Given the extensive clinical training involved, we are especially looking for candidates who are interested in this position for two years (or more).

Responsibilities

• Recruit participants for online and in-person studies at the CCNP (Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry).
• Administer clinical interview, cognitive tasks, self-report instruments to study participants per the different studies run at the CCNP.
• Update IRB protocols for studies as needed.
• Assist in planning and designing new computational psychiatry studies to be run at the CCNP.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Neuroscience or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with IRB protocols, experience with structured clinical interviews (SCIDs).
• Experience with recruiting and testing populations with mental health disorders.

This position is subject to the University's background check policy.

Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Salary range: $41,000 to $60,000.

Standard Weekly Hours: 36.25

Eligible for Overtime: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Probationary Period: 90 days

Essential Services Personnel: No

Physical Capacity Exam Required: No

Valid Drivers License Required: No