"Temporary Research Assistants"

Posted: 17-Dec-25

Location: Waltham, Massachusetts

Additional Information:

3 openings available.

Internal Number: R0012563

Brandeis seeks to hire six temporary research assistants.

This assignment is approximately six months, up to 10 hours a week.

Hourly Rate: $30/hour

Job Duties include:

• Community researcher to participate in a training program to learn to conduct interviews and collect data for a large research project
• Support research programming in communities of interest, including but not limited to recruitment activities, data collection (e.g., qualitative interviews, surveys, drug checking, etc.), and analyses
• Assist in relationship building and networking with communities
• Provide guidance on coordination and logistics towards operationalizing the study in given communities (e.g., refine, tailor, and adapt materials and procedures)
• Attend meetings and regularly communicate with the study team as part of the study leadership (as requested)
• Assist with the preparation of study presentations, dissemination materials, and writing and communications (as requested)
• Provide training, health educational instruction, and other duties as assigned

Required High school diploma/GED or higher. Work experience can be substituted for education.

Experience working in harm reduction or community engagement with people who use drugs or with vulnerable groups required.