"Lab Manager"

Position Information

Dr. Gene Brewer is seeking one full-time Lab Manager to begin in Winter 2025. The duration for the position is one year with the opportunity for renewal based on funding, department needs, and performance. His laboratory studies human memory and attention. The Brewer lab uses cognitive, physiological, and neuroimaging methods. The Lab Manager will be involved in multiple aspects of work in the lab including participant recruitment and screening, data collection, programming behavioral tasks, maintenance and analysis of behavioral and neuroimaging data, authoring posters for presentation, and authoring manuscripts for publication. The Lab Manager will also have administrative duties, including coordinating team meetings, managing teams of research assistants, assisting with IRB and other documents, and maintaining study databases and lab documentation. The position is ideal for motivated individuals interested in pursuing an advanced degree in psychology or related fields.

The full salary range for the Lab Manager is $26.79 - $31.89 per hour. However, the expected pay scale for this position is $26.79 - $27.91 per hour. We base salary offers on a variety of considerations, such as education, licensure and certifications, experience, and other business and organizational needs.

Requirements

Educational Requirements

• Graduation from high school or a General Education Diploma. Required
• Bachelor's degree in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, or a related field. Preferred
• Undergraduate level statistics course and experience with statistical analysis packages (e.g. Matlab, SPSS, R, Excel, etc.) Preferred

Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 1 year of laboratory experience or two years of college courses in the natural, physical or social sciences and laboratory experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; and knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position. Required

Minimum Requirements

• Detail-oriented with outstanding organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrated background and passion for research experience in psychology or neuroscience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Computer skills such as programming experience in R, MATLAB, Python, or a related programming language
• Experience conducting independent research in psychology or neuroscience
• Experience recruiting or scheduling human subjects
• Experience collecting behavioral data from human subjects
• Experience collecting and/or analyzing human neuroimaging data (EEG) or neurophysiological data
• Ability to occasionally work on an evening or weekend to assist in the recruitment of participants or to collect study data

Key Responsibilities

• 50%: The Lab Manager will be responsible for recruiting, screening, scheduling, and testing participants. Recruitment activities may involve sending emails, making calls, posting fliers, or attending community events. Screening and scheduling activities involve asking questions about eligibility and availability via phone or email. Testing activities involve administration and scoring of cognitive tests, onboarding participants for longitudinal studies, and managing research assistants working in the laboratory.
• 30%: The team working on the projects will include the faculty lead (Dr. Gene Brewer), graduate students, and undergraduate research assistants. The Lab Manager will be responsible for maintaining the schedules of team members to plan meetings and will help organize undergraduate research assistants who are working on the project to determine when they will recruit, schedule, and run participants. The Lab Manager will orient new lab members to basic procedures (checking email, making recruitment phone calls, coding data).
• 10%: The Lab Manager will be involved in task development and data analysis. Task development activities include programming and troubleshooting behavioral tasks. Data analysis activities include organizing and maintaining databases, quality control checks for errors in behavioral data or artifacts in neuroimaging data and conducting preprocessing and higher-level analyses of the behavioral and neuroimaging data. The Lab Manager would process and analyze data under the supervision of Dr. Brewer.
• 10%: The Lab Manager will be responsible for maintaining physical and digital records relating to the projects. This may involve updating participant and study databases, downloading files from the imaging center, or assisting with paperwork relating to other UCR entities, such as the IRB. They may help order research supplies and equipment. The Lab Manager may also maintain the schedules of team members to organize and facilitate meetings and schedule project-related tasks.