Multiplier

Research Assistant

Multiplier

part-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Montgomery • Alabama • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $20 per hour

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Using a secure, non-networked, personal computer to transcribe interviews. Correcting, formatting, and de-identifying interview transcripts
  • Coding interview transcripts in Dedoose
  • Participating in research group meetings
  • Handling confidential data with the highest degree of security and confidence
  • Communicating openly and responsively on email, Slack, through documents, and in in-person or online meetings
  • Participating in other aspects of the interview and policy working group, depending on the working group’s needs and the assistant’s interest
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Requirements

  • Ability to work in Montgomery or Troy, Alabama
  • Ability to protect highly sensitive and confidential data
  • Coursework and/or other training in research methods and research ethics
  • Experience with qualitative data collection, management, and analysis
  • Coursework in or familiarity with environmental studies, environmental policy, history, sociology, anthropology, environmental humanities, or related disciplines
  • Familiarity with Slack and Google Drive; experience with qualitative coding software (such as Dedoose) is desirable
  • The candidate must have a personal computer with Microsoft Word, ability to access the internet, and ability to install new (small file size) programs.
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Benefits
  • EDGI is a distributed collaboration operating under the fiscal sponsorship of the non-profit Multiplier, with volunteer members across North America. EDGI works to:
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  • - Investigate and analyze the inner workings of federal environmental policy through agency staff interviews, as well as data and documentary collection and analysis;
  • - Monitor and analyze changes to web-based information about the climate and environment provided by the federal government;
  • - Develop new ways of making federal environmental data more accessible to the public;
  • - Imagine, conceptualize, and move toward environmental data justice;
  • - Advocate for improved federal data and information governance policies and practices;
  • - Prototype new organizational structures and practices for distributed, collective, effective work rooted in justice.
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  • For more information about EDGI, please see our website.
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Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
transcriptioncodingqualitative data collectiondata managementdata analysisresearch methodsresearch ethics
Soft skills
communicationconfidentialityresponsiveness