Post Doc Res Assoc- Occupational Health

Job Summary

Dr. Ryan Olson is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to contribute to his nationally recognized interdisciplinary program of research on occupational health interventions for isolated workers.

Responsibilities

• Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis
• Prepare surveys, codebooks, and data collection methods for collecting data in new preliminary studies
• Inspect, clean, and process data from new studies
• Supervise more junior staff in data collection, management, and processing tasks
• Conduct new analyses with datasets from completed randomized controlled trials of occupational health interventions
• Conduct analyses needed for new and revised manuscript submissions
• Manuscript Planning and Preparation
• Conduct literature reviews and summarize literature findings and gaps
• Plan manuscript outlines and sections according to journal requirements
• Write components of collaborative multi-author manuscripts and manage collaborative writing activities
• Auxiliary in manuscript revisions, including responses to reviewer comments and conducting additional analyses as needed for papers
• Grant Application Assistance
• Conduct literature reviews and summarize literature findings and gaps
• Help prepare component required documents of grant applications based on past lab examples, or according to requirements of funding opportunities
• Contribute to proof reading and quality control of all components of grant application submissions
• Intervention Development and Adaptation
• Contribute to new intervention development and/or adaptation in ways that are aligned with candidate knowledge, skills, and abilities

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Occupational Health Psychology; Industrial-Organizational Psychology; Public Health; or other field (broadly defined) relevant to Occupational Health
• Proficiency in fundamentals of data management, analysis, and visualization using tools such as Excel, Power BI, R, SPSS, SAS, or STATA
• Proficiency in scientific writing

Preferences

• Experience designing or evaluating occupational health interventions
• Experience developing training materials and facilitating workshops
• Experience creating REDCap projects and collecting data using RECap (forms, surveys)
• Experience collecting and/or analyzing biometric data (blood pressure, actigraphy, finger stick blood samples, fitness testing, etc.)
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in dynamic multi-disciplinary teams