The Center for the Advancement of Research on Eating Behaviors (CARE) is seeking an Assistant Research Professor to serve as a Statistician and Researcher, providing expertise in quantitative methods for various research projects, including clinical trials for eating disorder interventions and mobile-health app development using machine learning.
Requirements
- PhD degree in psychology, public health, sociology, quantitative psychology, educational psychology, epidemiology, economics, or statistics (or related field) by the start date.
- One or more years of experience with R statistical software, machine learning, structural equation modeling, and longitudinal data analysis.
- Advanced statistical understanding with demonstrated experience applying analytical methods to large datasets.
- Computer knowledge to interface with a variety of database, statistical, and imaging task and processing software, such as SPSS, SAS, R, Qualtrics, RedCap, Linux, AFNI.
- Experience with RedCap.
- Experience with machine learning.
- Experience with structural equation modeling.
Responsibilities
- Perform statistical analyses using R, SAS, or Mplus.
- Develop and implement statistical procedures for grant-funded research.
- Develop and implement statistical procedures in collaboration with industry and engineering partners and external collaborators to support grant-funded research and mobile-health interventions.
- Conduct power analyses of proposed research grants.
- Develop statistical plans for research grant submissions.
- Oversee data management and study flow through the protocols using RedCap.
- Train research center members in the use of statistical methods and databases.
Other
- Serve as a Statistician and Researcher on one or more research projects, serving as an expert in the area of quantitative methods.
- Serve as a leader in the design of research, creation of algorithms and designs, statistical analysis, study protocols, data system development or other data collecting and gathering methodologies.
- Serve as a co-PI, PI, or Co-I on internal and extramural grants.
- Collaborate with the Director and Associate Director and other study members to write manuscripts, abstracts, and other publications of research findings.
- Supervise students and staff who are conducting quantitative analyses.
- Assist the Director and Associate Director in upholding high ethical standards, regulatory compliance, and confidentiality of sensitive data and open-science reporting practices.
- Together with the Director and Associate Director, oversee paid staff and post-doctoral scholar(s) who are coordinating internal and extramural grants.
- Oversee project coordinators writing IRB applications and assist the PIs and other members of the center in writing and submitting federal and private foundation grant applications.
- Collaborate with the Director, Associate Director, and other members of the center with manuscript preparation.
- Train and evaluate the student members of the center to ensure adherence to the database management protocols and data integrity.
- Oversee the database manager in the development and maintenance of RedCap databases.
- Co-lead or lead database management and statistical training.
- Supervise and mentor post-doctoral fellows.
- Write and submit manuscripts based on existing and ongoing data collected in the center.
- Conduct data collection for independent or pilot research study.
- Write internal and extramural research grants as a Co-I, Co-PI, or PI (e.g., T32, F32, K01, R34, R01 applications, depending on career stage).
- Attend and participate in scientific group meetings, departmental seminars, and problem sessions; may assist in the mentorship and training of graduate students.
- One or more publications in the field of psychology or behavior change as evidenced by application materials.
- Demonstrated experience working to a deadline, as evidenced in application materials.
- Demonstrated experience with flexibility and change in a fast-paced environment, as well as working successfully both independently and with a team as evidenced in application materials.
- Demonstrated experience working with a range of cultures, communities, and body sizes, including people with eating disorders, obesity, and related mental-health conditions as evidenced in application materials.
- Experience or prior training in clinical psychology or behavioral health research, as demonstrated by previous work experience.
- Six months of experience in laboratory management, administration, or statistical consultation as evidenced in application materials.
- A complete online application consists of: Cover letter describing how the required and preferred qualifications are met, Resume/CV, Three professional references.
- Only complete applications will be considered.
- Application review begins October 14, 2024 and will continue until a qualified pool of applicants is received.
- This is an in-person position that will require relocation to Lawrence, Kansas.
- The successful candidate must be eligible to work in the U.S. by the effective date of the appointment.
