Brandeis seeks to hire six temporary research assistants.
This assignment is approximately six months, up to 10 hours a week.
Hourly Rate: $30/hour
Job Duties include:
- Community researcher to participate in a training program to learn to conduct interviews and collect data for a large research project
- Support research programming in communities of interest, including but not limited to recruitment activities, data collection (e.g., qualitative interviews, surveys, drug checking, etc.), and analyses
- Assist in relationship building and networking with communities
- Provide guidance on coordination and logistics towards operationalizing the study in given communities (e.g., refine, tailor, and adapt materials and procedures)
- Attend meetings and regularly communicate with the study team as part of the study leadership (as requested)
- Assist with the preparation of study presentations, dissemination materials, and writing and communications (as requested)
- Provide training, health educational instruction, and other duties as assigned
- Required High school diploma/GED or higher. Work experience can be substituted for education.
- Experience working in harm reduction or community engagement with people who use drugs or with vulnerable groups required.
Pay Range Disclosure
The University's pay ranges represent a good faith estimate of what Brandeis reasonably expects to pay for a position at the time of posting. The pay offered to a selected candidate during hiring will be based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience and education/training, internal peer equity, and applicable legal requirements.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Brandeis University is an equal opportunity employer which does not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religious creed, gender identity and expression, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, caste, military or veteran status or any other category protected by law (also known as membership in a "protected class").