Required Qualifications: (as evidenced by an attached resume)
- PhD (or foreign equivalent) in Psychology, Education, Science Assessment, or a closely related field.
- Experience developing survey instruments for social science research.
- Experience analyzing multi-level or longitudinal research data.
- Experience analyzing qualitative research data.
- Expertise presenting research findings to a variety of audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise in social science research methodologies and data analytic tools.
- Experience developing and conducting evaluations or assessments.
- Experience with manuscript development and publication in peer reviewed journals.
- Experience with STEM higher education initiative evaluation.
Brief Description of Duties:
The Postdoctoral Associate will assist the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigators in the design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination of a funded research project entitled Sloan Center for Strategic Change at Stony Brook University. The project aims to develop, implement, and support systemic institutional change to increase SBU’s success at outreach, recruitment, admission, enrollment, and retention of disadvantaged doctoral students in seven STEM graduate programs. The incumbent will have expertise in research methodology, project planning and management, research compliance and implementation, data organization, cleaning and analyses, and research writing and publications. Under the direction of faculty and staff including the Dean of the Graduate School, faculty in the Department of Psychology and Chemistry and the Director of the Center for Inclusive Education and Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, the incumbent will lead a psychosocial, longitudinal research project that parallels a programmatic intervention to test the impact of a comprehensive mentoring program on graduate student engagement, student success and STEM department-level outcomes. The Incumbent will support and lead research activities that include: ensuring all research procedures are conducted in compliance with human subjects standards by submitting and updating Human Subjects protocols and reports; identifying, adopting and adapting research instruments for use in self-report surveys and departmental assessments; managing participant recruitment; tracking and logistics of multi-level data; preparing and structuring data for nested and multi-level modeling analyses; obtaining, preparing and structuring department level (institutional) data for multi-level modeling analyses; analyzing and reporting data outcomes; and disseminating research findings through annual reports to the sponsor, conference presentations and peer reviewed publications. The incumbent will coordinate with relevant institutional partners to conduct the research. Under the direction of the project PI/Co-PI team, the incumbent will be responsible for the development, implementation, and management of all research protocols related to the project.
Duties:
Research Design and Implementation:
- Provide day-to-day management of all components of this research project.
- The incumbent will maintain up-to-date awareness and knowledge of related research literature and methods that impact the implementation of the current project.
- The incumbent will provide day-to-day management of all project components to ensure the project stays on schedule, including ensuring participant recruitment and surveys are completed consistently and on time; and data cleaning, analyses, and reporting are completed consistently and on time, based on the established project timeline.
- The incumbent will attend and lead meetings related to project goals and project implementation.
- In collaboration with the leadership team, the incumbent will compile survey instruments, pilot-test instruments as needed, design online survey tools using Qualtrics or related software, and coordinate participant selection and dissemination of surveys to all relevant participants based on the established procedures for the study.
- The incumbent will monitor and manage the logistics of study participation and review and address retention issues for all participants.
- The incumbent may travel to meetings and conferences on behalf of the research team to disseminate research findings.
- The incumbent will ensure that all data analyses are completed utilizing the appropriate statistical tools and procedures.
- The incumbent will develop, augment, and maintain a library (hard copy and virtual) of scholarly sources and citations to inform our policies, practices, and research activities.
Data/Information Management and other Administrative Duties:
- Under the supervision and mentorship of the leadership team, the incumbent will be responsible for submitting all research compliance documentation for the study to the relevant compliance units at the University (e.g., Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects research)
- The incumbent will monitor and manage the logistics of study participation and review and address retention issues for all participants.
- The incumbent may supervise and mentor undergraduate research assistants who assist with the project goals.
- The incumbent will be responsible for data collection, security, storage, preparation, and structuring to be consistent with the data analysis plan for the study.
- The incumbent will assist with qualitative data collection procedures, e.g., leading focus groups and interview data collection.
- Under supervision and mentorship from the leadership team, the incumbent will be responsible for data analysis consistent with the data analysis plan for the study, and report outcomes and models to the leadership team.
- Under supervision and mentorship from the leadership team, the incumbent will lead reporting of findings to the granting agency and through conference presentations and peer-reviewed journal article submissions.
- The incumbent will create tables and other outputs using data visualization tools for use in decision-making, reporting, and manuscript writing.
- Provide technical, research, administrative, and writing assistance on grant proposals.
- Attend and support grant development meetings with other collaborators.
Programmatic Research Support:
- The incumbent will support and assist the leadership team with programmatic components of the research project.
- Create, market, and implement activities that move the project forward (e.g., advisory board meetings, data sharing events, campus collaboration meetings).
- Provide administrative support for the planning, logistics, and assessment of in-person and virtual workshops and events. This includes room scheduling, coordination of catering, processing registration and assessment data, and managing an online calendar of campus-wide professional development events.
- Contribute to website and social media content that highlights opportunities to participate in the project and publicly celebrates the accomplishments of the project to various audiences. Other duties as assigned, as appropriate to rank and departmental mission.
Special Notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption. Visit The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs to learn more about our postdoctoral community. Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.
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