Postdoctoral Research Associate - Brown School

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Posted: 05-May-24

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Academic/Faculty
Medical - Research

Internal Number: JR81842

Job Description

Position Summary

The appointment is viewed as a training or transitional period preparatory to an academic, industrial, governmental, or other full-time research or teaching career. The Postdoc Associate will work at the Social Policy Institute. The institute is dedicated to addressing pressing social issues through transdisciplinary empirical research, dissemination of evidence-informed policy, and training.

The individual will work independently with mentoring from senior staff and statisticians and in collaboration with other project staff, as well as providing guidance for student research assistants.

Information on being a postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis can be found at https://postdoc.wustl.edu/prospective-postdocs-2/ .

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The primary areas of research for this position will consist of education and other issues facing children and young adults. The individual will primarily be responsible for:

• Perform data management activities, including cleaning and quality checks as necessary.
• Contribute to leading data collection and instrument development. Perform quantitative and qualitative data collection and data management tasks, including audits, cleaning, and quality control checks of data as necessary. Oversee data entry tasks performed by others.
• Perform statistical analyses of quantitative data collected. Analyze data in Stata, interpret statistical test results, and summarize findings.
• Support development of research proposals and directions and leads research design issues, collaborating on the writing of research reports, briefs, and scholarly publications. Prepare findings for dissemination in various forms (presentations, papers, reports, briefs, funder materials, etc.). Draft narrative description of results for scholarly journal articles, etc.
• Collaborate on liaising with internal and external research partners and funders to promote partnerships and dissemination; manage other staff and graduate research assistants.
• Adhere to all applicable University policies, procedures and regulations. All data, research records and materials and other intellectual property generated in University centers/labs/institutes remain the property of the University.

Required Qualifications

The appointee has earned a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent terminal or doctoral degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of appropriate statistical tests for various analysis situations (including, but not limited to, correlation, ANOVA, t-test, chi-square).
• Experience conducting inferential data analyses and developing appropriate graphical displays of data for manuscripts, reports, and presentations.
• Software proficiency: Competency and experience navigating data and utilizing relational databases and reporting tools (Excel, Stata, and R). Competence and experience with Qualtrics or other online survey software. At least one year experience using Stata or other statistical packages to run descriptive analyses.
• Ability to learn and independently perform new applications and procedures.
• Strong analytic skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in editing, record-keeping, etc.
• Ability to verbally communicate complex issues with clarity to different types of audiences (e.g., academic, community, etc.).
• Ability to collaborate with others, working independently and with team members, including students, staff and faculty.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of community members, staff, and faculty of varying degrees of technical sophistication.

Salary Range

Base pay is commensurate with experience.

Questions

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Pre-Employment Screening
All external candidates receiving an offer for employment will be required to submit to pre-employment screening for this position. The screenings will include criminal background check and, as applicable for the position, other background checks, drug screen, an employment and education or licensure/certification verification, physical examination, certain vaccinations and/or governmental registry checks. All offers are contingent upon successful completion of required screening.

Benefits Statement
Washington University in St. Louis is committed to providing a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to our employees. Benefits eligibility is subject to employment status, full-time equivalent (FTE) workload, and weekly standard hours. Please visit our website at https://hr.wustl.edu/benefits/ to view a summary of benefits.

EEO/AA Statement
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