Research Associate - Full-time / Part-time

Headway Workforce Solutions is currently seeking Research Associates to work on a government sponsored research study in the Covington, KY area. Qualified candidates will live within 30 miles of Covington, KY, and be comfortable working with adolescents and in respondent homes.

Position Description
Research Associates (RAs) will work on the Healthy Adolescent Development (HAD) Sleep Study, which examines whether there are differences between people who eventually use drugs and those who do not. The purpose of the study is to better understand the process that underlies drug abuse so that intervention projects that work can be developed. The HAD Sleep Study is sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, and is a longitudinal study.

This is a part-time position anticipated to begin with training in January 2015, and last until February 2016.

Job Duties

• Administering a computer-assisted interview (CAI) to adult and youth respondents.
• Administering and scoring cognitive assessments to sampled youths.
• Administer instructions on how to complete sleep diary, actigraphy, and cortisol activities with sampled youth, and carry out a urine test with sampled youth at the time of the youth interview.
• Administer an RTI-provided computer-assisted questionnaire to respondents.
• Complete the required number of interviews by the end of the data collection period in an efficient and timely manner according to project protocols.
• Contact participants in advance of the scheduled home visits to confirm or reschedule the appointment.
• Obtain cooperation of study participants by effectively answering questions and addressing concerns.
• Obtain informed consent from respondents.
• Accurately complete all project documentation, including electronic survey instruments and all reporting forms.
• Ability to read text verbatim from a computer screen and paper documents.
• Keep project information confidential.
• Ability to carry project-related equipment, approximately 10 pounds, to walk up steps and walk from car to household.
• Ability to complete all required activities in a professional manner, while maintaining the integrity of all information acquired.
• Maintain a professional, cooperative relationship with your project staff, objectively sharing your thoughts while displaying an understanding of project management's concerns.
• Be receptive—not defensive—when given feedback from project personnel about your performance, striving to learn and improve.
• Prompt, reliable and accurate reporting to project staff.
• Submit time and expense reports weekly.

Qu a l i ficati o n s

· Be available for at least 25 - 30 hours per week to conduct interviewing during the field data collection period.

· Attend training January 12-16 th and 26-30 th in Covington, KY.

· Be able to pass a criminal background check.

· Have reliable personal automobile available for business use.

• C o llege g ra du ate o r h ig h s c h oo l g ra du a t e with suc c ess di r ec t ly o r in d irect l y r e l at e d t o e x p er i ence in i n t e r v i e win g
• Successful experience with field data collection activities
• Experience working with teenaged children in a professional capacity
• Effec t i v e i n t e r p er s o n al a n d v erb a l c om m un icat i o n s s k i ll s .
• Willi ngn ess t o a c cept a ssi g n m ents o f v a r y i n g d u rati o n o n s h o rt n o ti c e.

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