Research and Data Manager
Princeton University
- Princeton, NJ
- Permanent
- Full-time
- A one-page cover letter describing your interest in and qualifications for the position;
- A CV;
- Brief writing sample
- A complete undergraduate transcript and graduate transcript, if applicable. They do not need to be official.
- Names and contact information for three references.
- Oversee recruitment, hiring, and onboarding of eight or more predoctoral research assistants in partnership with faculty supervisors, manage the assignment of work to research assistants and approval of time off
- Manage performance by meeting regularly with research staff, setting expectations, developing performance and professional development goals, and tracking progress towards those goals
- Obtain regular feedback from faculty supervisors about research staff performance
- Participate in planning professional development, enrichment, and social activities for research staff
- As needed, recruit and hire temporary research staff (students, casual hourly workers, staff hired through agencies) and approve hours worked
- Coordinate data acquisitions from various public and private organizations
- Manage workflows for purchasing and data use agreement review and approval, partnering with colleagues in the Office of Research Project Administration (ORPA) and Finance (Purchasing)
- Manage access to three or more secure data rooms in coordination with IRS IT technical support specialist
- Collaborate with Research Computing to manage access to IRS physical data servers,
- Manage research studies including subject interaction, implementation of study design and controls, and on-and-off-site trouble shooting.
- Work with the faculty, researchers, postdocs, and graduate students to ensure data protocols, human research subject regulations and all relevant University policies are followed.
- Serve as additional staff on IRB protocols to collaborate with research staff in preparing submissions
- Provide guidance and feedback on research proposals and data applications
- Connect IRS members to other campus partners for resources and expertise supporting research
- Develop in-depth knowledge of faculty and graduate student research agendas and projects
- With the associate director, document procedures and policies related to data and funding requests
- Gather benchmarking information about peer labor economics centers and departments and evaluate potential developments in IRS research operations
- Conduct own research projects
- Masters degree in economics or public policy and relevant work experience
- Strong analytical, management, leadership, communications, writing, and presentation skills.
- Proficiency in working with statistical programs such as STATA and R.
- Basic understanding of Linux OS security and administration related topics such as user/group management, working on the command line, and permissions
- Supervisory and/or teaching and advising experience
- Research data management experience