Pre-Doc Fellow

About the role

We are seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented part-time research assistant to support scholarly, educational, and professional activities. The fellow will work closely with faculty to assist with preparation for speaking engagements, development of slide decks and presentation materials, and background research to support manuscript preparation. This position is well suited for an individual with strong writing, research, organizational, and communication skills who is interested in academic medicine, clinical neuropsychology, psychology, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Speaking engagement preparation: Assist with planning and organizing materials for invited talks, lectures, workshops, professional presentations, and educational sessions.
• Slide preparation: Draft, revise, format, and polish slide decks to ensure that content is clear, visually organized, audience-appropriate, and aligned with presentation goals.
• Literature review and background research: Conduct targeted literature searches, summarize relevant findings, and identify current evidence, clinical guidelines, and key citations to support presentations and manuscripts.
• Manuscript support: Assist with preparation of scholarly manuscripts, including organizing outlines, drafting or revising sections, compiling references, checking citation accuracy, and helping prepare materials for submission.
• Content synthesis: Translate research findings into concise summaries, talking points, presentation narratives, tables, or figures as needed.
• Project organization: Maintain organized files, reference lists, timelines, drafts, and version histories for ongoing presentation and writing projects.
• Collaboration and communication: Meet regularly with supervising faculty to review priorities, receive feedback, and ensure timely completion of assigned tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required. Candidates should be presently enrolled in a doctoral degree program focused on psychology, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, education, neuroscience, or a closely related field.
• Strong academic writing skills and experience reading, summarizing, and synthesizing scientific literature.
• Experience preparing professional presentations, educational materials, slide decks, or manuscripts.
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and time management.
• Ability to work independently while incorporating feedback from supervising faculty.
• Familiarity with APA style, reference management tools, and academic publication processes preferred.
• Interest or background in pediatric neuropsychology, clinical neuropsychology, learning and developmental disorders, or related clinical populations preferred.

Schedule

This is a 0.5 FTE part-time position (20 scheduled weekly hours). Specific schedule and distribution of hours will be determined in collaboration with the supervising faculty member and may include a combination of independent work, scheduled check-ins, and project-based deadlines. Work shift is Day (United States of America).

Pay

Hourly pay range: $20.16 – $29.01 (Grade 5). The posting also notes a broader range of $20.16 – $37.86 USD hourly. Base pay is determined by skills, relevant experience, education, certifications, and other essential factors; the range reflects the minimum job qualifications and does not encompass all elements of total compensation.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable, and recognition programs designed to celebrate contributions and support professional growth.

Work arrangement

Remote position with a work location of 55 Fruit Street. Employee type: Regular. Full-time equivalent: 0.5 (20 hours per week).