Research Specialist II

We are seeking an experienced researcher and clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. The position involves recruiting participants with mental health conditions, as well as healthy controls, for behavioral studies; administering clinical assessments, cognitive batteries and self-report instruments to the study participants and running the behavioral tasks. Additional responsibilities include working with researchers at Princeton and Rutgers to identify and design new studies that could be run at the Center, writing and updating study protocols for these studies for review by the Institutional Review Board, and coordinating the Center seminar series and workshops.

This is a one-year term position with the possibility of extension contingent upon satisfactory performance and/or continued funding.

• Recruit participants for online and in-person studies at the CCNP (Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry)
• Administer clinical interview, cognitive tasks, self-report instruments to study participants per the different studies run at the CCNP
• Update IRB protocols for studies as needed
• Assist in planning and designing new computational psychiatry studies to be run at the CCNP

Essential Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in Psychology, Neuroscience or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with IRB protocols, experience with structured clinical interviews (SCIDs)

- Experience with recruiting and testing populations with mental health disorders.

- MS degree or equivalent experience.

This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.

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