Predoctoral Scholar

• →Assists in managing the research effort.
• →Assists in planning, conducting, and analysis of semi-structured interviews.
• →Prepares, cleans, and analyzes interview and survey data.
• →Contributes to the preparation of high-quality journal articles and presents results at conferences and stakeholder events.
• →Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts and other documents.
• →Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project.
• →Analyzes and maintains data and/or specimens. Conducts literature reviews. Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts and other documents.
• →Installs, sets up and performs experiments; interacting with students and other laboratory staff under the direction of the principal investigator.
• →Maintains recruiting and scheduling research subjects; assisting with developing or amending study protocols; assisting with developing data collection tools; assisting with building databases; and providing general administrative support. Has general awareness in research techniques or methods, regulatory policies and procedures, and relevant scientific field.
• →Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline by the time the position begins, including but not limited to psychology, marketing, behavioral economics, decision science, organizational behavior, management studies, business.
• Master’s degree in the above fields and/or relevant work experience.

Experience:

• Conducting interviews and survey research.
• Analyzing the resulting data.
• Familiarity conducting randomized survey experiments.
• Creating compelling data visualizations of information and results, and using econometric methods.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Proficiency in leading statistical packages (e.g., STATA, R, SPS).
• Programming qualtrics surveys.

Preferred Competencies

• Professional/academic level English language skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team.

Working Conditions

• Position will be located in Chicago, IL.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter summarizing your qualifications, areas of expertise, research interests, career goals, and a statement of how you meet the qualifications described above (required)
• Two References Contact Information (required)

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FLSA Status

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Pay Range

The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

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