Student - Research Assistant COS TEELS

Utah-Valley-University; Orem (UT); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Utah Valley University invites applications from motivated UVU students to join its department as a research and administrative support student. You will gather, clean, and enter data, and assist with transcription, coding, surveys, focus groups, and data collection efforts.

Additionally, you will help in producing data summaries and support the department’s social media posts and digital signs. Must be a current UVU student with a TEELS award for 2026-2027 working with the College of Science.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Gathering, compiling, cleaning and/or entering data
• Assisting with transcription and/or coding of qualitative data
• Assisting in programming, coordinating, and conducting survey research, focus groups and other data collection efforts
• Cleaning and analyzing data
• Assisting in producing, cleaning, and analyzing data files
• Producing summaries of data from data sets
• Assists with department’s social media posts and digital signs

Skills

Data entry

Data cleaning

Transcription

Qualitative coding

Communication skills

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Social media knowledge

Education

High school diploma

Current UVU student

TEELS award recipient

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Internet

Windows

Job description

Utah Valley University is seeking a student to provide research and administrative support to the department.

Responsibilities

• Gathering, compiling, cleaning and/or entering data
• Assisting with transcription and/or coding of qualitative data
• Assisting in programming, coordinating, and conducting survey research, focus groups and other data collection efforts
• Cleaning and analyzing data
• Assisting in producing, cleaning, and analyzing data files
• And producing summaries of data from data sets.
• Assists with department’s social media posts and digital signs

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent education
• Must be a current UVU student
• Must have received a TEELS award and will work with their faculty mentor on their research with the College of Science as outlined in their TEELS award for 2026-2027.

Skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good telephone, email, and customer service skills
• Attention to detail
• Professionalism
• Organizational skills
• Computer skills (Internet, Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Good work ethic/self-motivated
• Ability to be a team player
• Ability to interact and communicate in person and on the phone with college
• students
• Willingness to try/learn new things
• Knowledge of Facebook and Instagram and other social media