
Research Assistant
Hopelab
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $29 - $45 per hour
Tech Stack
About the role
- Create and maintain overall research and project tracking documents, including timelines, meeting notes, deliverables, databases of key relationships, and other project resources
- Recruit, schedule, track, and engage research participants
- Coordinate the development and implementation of research activities, including project kick-offs, focus groups, individual interviews, and surveys.
- Participate in data synthesis processes that distill insights that are relevant and useful to the project goals and objectives
- Conduct, write up, and present landscape reviews, and academic literature reviews on key programs, technologies, organizations, individuals, and academic and popular literature relevant to Hopelab initiatives
- Present findings and perspectives related to our research through written and verbal professional communication outlets.
- Coordinate and assist with the development and scheduling of regular communications and presentations on research activities and findings for both internal project teams and external collaborators.
- Organize the assembly and storage of Institutional Review Board (IRB) documents and communicate with IRB officers on protocol submission requirements and documentation
- Support meetings, including set-up, note-taking, record-keeping, and follow-up items
- Support event planning for partnership convenings
- Manage internal evaluation activities related to our research and research partnerships
Requirements
- A combination of education, relevant work experience, and/or training resulting in demonstrated ability to successfully complete the job tasks
- Typically, a Bachelor’s degree with academic studies in a relevant field (psychology, education, anthropology, sociology, public health, or health services research) is a plus
- Interest in learning about and applying health equity practices across research projects and protocols
- Experience with academic literature searches in the social and behavioral sciences, and with reference management tools, is a plus
- A confident user of common research project applications such as survey tools (e.g., Qualtrics), collaboration tools (e.g., Notion, Mural), and project management tools (e.g., Team Gantt)
- Strong project administration skills, including creation and upkeep of study protocols and instruments, and detailed tracking of project tasks, deliverables, and goals
- Strong research coordination skills, including coordinating planning processes and information sharing across multiple stakeholder teams
- Experience and enthusiasm for working in an interdisciplinary environment and learning about approaches from other fields
- Experience and comfort in communicating with diverse audiences, verbally and in writing
- Experience building relationships and partnerships and communicating sensitively with a wide range of stakeholder groups, including young people
- Experience coordinating essential communication with external collaborators
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
research coordinationdata synthesisacademic literature reviewproject administrationstudy protocol creationproject trackingevent planninghealth equity practicesinterdisciplinary collaborationstakeholder communication
Soft Skills
strong communicationrelationship buildingorganizational skillsteam collaborationnote-takingrecord-keepingengagement with diverse audiencesenthusiasm for learningsensitivity in communicationproject management