"Graduate Assistant - Nutrition - Research - Spring 2026"

Graduate Assistant - Nutrition - Research - Spring 2026

Company: University of Central Missouri

Job Location: Warrensburg, 64093

Category: Nutrition and Dietetics

Type: Adjunct/Part-Time

Salary: $275.00 Semi-Monthly

Location: UCMO - Warrensburg, MO

Job Type: Graduate Assistant

Job Number: G98101

Division: Nutrition

Description

The Nutrition Graduate Research Assistant supports faculty-led research focused on diet, health behaviors, and metabolic outcomes. Responsibilities include participant recruitment, data collection, literature reviews, quantitative and qualitative assessments, and data entry/analysis. The assistant helps prepare reports, manuscripts, and presentations, and maintains research compliance and documentation. Ideal candidates demonstrate strong organization, attention to detail, and interest in nutrition science.

Examples of Duties

RA responsibilities vary depending on the research projects active during the semester, but several core tasks are consistent across years:

Common Recurring Tasks:

• Conducting literature reviews
• Creating recruitment materials
• Preparing IRB proposals or amendments
• Data entry and data cleaning
• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
• Creating or editing survey tools
• Drafting and editing deliverables (abstracts, posters, manuscripts)

Typical Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Currently admitted to a UCM MS in Clinical Nutrition Program graduate degree
• 3.0 or higher graduate level GPA if previous graduate level courses have been taken
• 2.7 or higher undergraduate level GPA if no previous graduate level courses have been taken

Experience:

• Completed NUTR 5013 Practical Applications in Nutrition Research

Supplemental Information

GA Type: Research

GA Hour Expectations: 10 hours a week

Start Date of Position: 02/01/2026

End Date of Position: 05/08/2026

Total Stipend for Semester: $1,925

Working Days & Hours: 10 hours a week

NOTE: There is a potential for this position to be upgraded to a 1.0 full time GA position, requiring 20 hours a week of work, paying a total semester stipend of $3,850.

Scholarship: Students filling a Graduate Assistantship (GA) position are eligible to receive a graduate tuition waiver, a graduate non-resident tuition waiver (if applicable), and a graduate mandatory fees waiver. The scholarships are in the form of a waiver and the funds are not deposited into the student's personal account. Instead, the student's bill is reduced by the amount of the scholarship awarded. If the maximum amount of the scholarship is not used, the remainder is not paid to the student in any form and unused scholarship money cannot be carried over to another semester. The scholarship is applied to graduate level courses only; courses taken for undergraduate credit are not eligible to be covered by the GA scholarship. The non-resident fee scholarship only applies to classes taken on the UCM Warrensburg campus. The maximum scholarship amounts are based on the size of assistantship held. For a full (20-hour per week) assistantship, the scholarship covers tuition costs and mandatory fees up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework per semester. Graduate assistantship positions less than full will be prorated accordingly.

Special Instructions:

• Full-time staff & 12-month faculty benefits-eligible position: Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks paid vacation per year; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.
• 9-month faculty benefits-eligible position: Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.
• Part-time benefits-eligible positions: Benefits include generous education assistance for the employee.
• Temporary, adjunct, student employment, or graduate assistant positions: Benefits are not included.

Completed UCM online application for employment required. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

A review will begin immediately and continue until filled unless indicated otherwise.

NOTE: A background check is required for the selected candidate of all staff, faculty, adjunct, and temporary positions and any job offer is contingent on the results of this check. Student employees and graduate assistants do not require a background check to be conducted prior to employment.

The University of Central Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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