Research Proejct Coordinator at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton Precision Health Research Specialist

Princeton Precision Health (PPH) is an initiative at Princeton University dedicated to revolutionizing health, medicine, and human well-being through an integrated, multi-scale framework. PPH bridges disciplines, bringing together behavioral and psychological science, data science, computational modeling, genomics, and social and environmental determinants, to understand health trajectories across the lifespan and address systemic health disparities.

Within PPH, this position supports an active, interdisciplinary lab integrating behavioral, developmental, psycholinguistic, and neuroscientific approaches to advance mental health.

For a technology and mental health project, amongst other projects, Princeton Precision Health (PPH) at Princeton University is seeking a full-time Research Specialist to coordinate research studies.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will assist with managing ongoing studies, as well as all aspects of conducting research, including:

• Manage recruitment, screening, and scheduling pipelines for longitudinal, developmental, and cross-sectional studies.
• Facilitate data collection across multiple modalities: in-person behavioral sessions, online experiments (e.g., Qualtrics, Cloud Research), and home-/mobile-based ecological assessments.
• Interface warmly and professionally with participants across the lifespan, including young children, adolescents, parents, and community partners.
• Assist lab members with study design, stimuli preparation, testing, data collection, analyses, literature searches, and manuscript and grant preparation.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in psychology, sociology, education, or relevant social science field
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with others (e.g., adult and child participants, families, other researchers)
• Being detail-oriented, motivated, efficient, and able to work independently
• Being able to occasionally work non-standard hours (e.g., evenings, weekends), depending on participant availability
• The final candidate must successfully pass a background check and approval by the Princeton University Office of Human Resources

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience conducting empirical research on questions related to the lab's research focus

Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.