Predoctoral Scholar

Job Summary

The Harris School of Public Policy invites applications for a one-year Pre-Doctoral Scholar position. The successful candidate will work closely under the supervision of Professor James Robinson and will contribute to ongoing research at the intersection of policy, behavior, and organizations. Ideal applicants will be intellectually curious, analytically strong, and interested in deepening their research experience before pursuing a PhD or related academic and policy career.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field. Work Experience: Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through < 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

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.