TEMP Senior Research Associate

Job ID: 295015

Location: Kennesaw, Georgia

Full/Part Time: Part Time

Regular/Temporary: Temporary

About Us

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower our 47,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision. Come Take Flight at KSU!

Location

(Primary Location for Job Responsibilities) Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.

Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Department Information

DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

1. Post-doc research experience that includes conducting, disseminating, and publishing ethics, critical theory, and humanistic research; mentoring undergraduate and graduate students reviews, books, articles, and other publications and presentations at local, state, and performing research; preparing lectures, reports, literature national level
2. Successful media, technology, or business industry (non-academic) experience, such as start-up, entrepreneurial, managerial, or executive experience, or similar in order to successfully bridge gap between knowledge generation and application
3. Expertise in qualitative and critical approaches alongside excellent proficiency in interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration
4. Experience with data collection processes (e.g., focus group facilitation, face-to-face and telephone interviewing, conducting observations, surveys, case studies, critical theory, critical discourse analysis, critical and interpretive ethnography)

Job Summary

Responsible for the planning, implementation, and execution of research activities leading to the establishment of an externally funded research program (e.g., experimental design and implementation, data collection, reduction, and interpretation, manuscript and grant development, and administrative tasks related to the research). May serve as Principal Investigator (PI)/CO-PI for projects and grants, as well as other interdepartmental projects that can be used as cost-share for the research center.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Plans, leads, conducts, and reports original research initiatives; performs research activities leading to externally funded research program
2. Designs, constructs, and operates highly complex research apparatus
3. Conducts experimental design and implementation, data collection, reduction, interpretation, manuscript and grant development
4. Mentors undergraduate students performing research and supervises research lab
5. Uses standard evaluation tools and methods and assists in creation of new data collection instruments when necessary
6. Responsible for grant writing, proposal development
7. Coordinates with other campus academic colleges to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to research
8. Performs all duties described in grants and external projects, including but not limited to preparing progress and final reports, conducting literature reviews, collecting and analyzing data, attending grant related meetings, and preparing publications
9. Supervises and mentors other members of grant team when required by grant
10. Disseminates knowledge through reports, articles, white papers, other publications and presentations at local, state and national level
11. Prepares lectures and presentations

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Doctoral degree in discipline related to the specific research

Required Experience
At least three (3) years post-doctoral research experience

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Educational Qualifications
An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a related field such as higher education, student affairs, student personnel services, educational leadership, or a related field

Preferred Experience
Experience with grant writing and securing grants
Experience conducting mixed-methods research, including quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
Proficient computer skills, use of statistical packages and proficiency in navigating and maintaining databases
Experience with statistical analysis software (SPSS); Stata and NVivo is preferred
Experience with data collection processes (e.g., focus group facilitation, face-to-face and telephone interviewing, conducting observations)

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

ABILITIES
Extensive documented contributions to the scholarly discipline
Documented in sponsored program development
Able to lead and conduct research
Able to supervise others' work by virtue of being a program manager, project director/principal investigator, coproject director/principal investigator, or task leader on sponsored research
Able to manage multiple tasks or projects at one time meeting assigned deadlines

KNOWLEDGE
Publication of research results is highly desirable

SKILLS
Excellent interpersonal, initiative, teamwork, problem solving, independent judgment, organization, communication (verbal and written), time management, project management and presentation skills
Strong writing skills
Proficient with computer applications and programs associated with the position (i.e., Microsoft Office suite, Desktop Publishing software)
Strong attention to detail and follow up skills
Strong customer service skills and phone and e-mail etiquette

Other Information

This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will not be required to drive.
This role is not considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position may travel 1%-24% of the time.
This position does not require security clearance.

Background Check

• Standard Enhanced
• Education

Per the University System of Georgia background check policy, all final candidates will be required to consent to a criminal background investigation. Final candidates may be asked to disclose criminal record history during the initial screening process and prior to a conditional offer of employment. Applicants for positions of trust with screening results which confirm a disqualifying criminal history will be immediately disqualified from employment eligibility.

All applicants are required to include professional references as part of their application process. Some positions may require additional job-based screenings such as motor vehicle report, credit check, pre-employment drug screening and/or verification of academic credentials.