Research Support Specialist

Required Qualifications (as evidenced by an attached resume):
Bachelor’s degree (foreign equivalent or higher). Research experience (student experience may be considered).

Preferred Qualifications: 
Master’s degree (foreign equivalent or higher) in psychology or neuroscience (in hand). Experience with polysomnography data collection. Experience with collecting, scoring or interpreting actigraphy data. Experience with SPSS, R, MATLAB, and/or other research software or coding. Experience creating and maintaining data spreadsheets.

Brief Description of Duties:
The Sleep and Emotion Research in Children lab in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University is seeking a part-time research assistant to assist with several ongoing projects. Research in the lab uses multimethod assessment approaches to understanding the connections between sleep and emotional functioning in youth toward the development of evidence-based interventions. The Research Support Specialist will work closely with the PI and other members of the lab to assist in several ongoing studies examining relations between sleep patterns and daytime socioemotional functioning in children and adolescents.
 

• Scoring actigraphy data.

• Conducting in-person research visits.

• Managing data.

• Scheduling.

• Training and mentoring.

• Other duties as assigned.

Special Notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Non Exempt position, eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.

For this position, we are unable to sponsor candidates for work visas.

Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.

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The starting salary range (or hiring range) to be offered for this position is noted below, it represents SBU’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

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