Research Coordinator

This is a remote position.

About the role

The Research Coordinator at the Institute for Research Experiences & Education (IREE) works closely with IREE’s interdisciplinary research team on the workflows, logistics, and administrative components that are critical to social science and education research. This individual is the cohesive glue across education research projects, ensuring studies are completed as planned and communication is seamless across the team. With expertise in project management and experience in social science research, the Research Coordinator plays a key support role that is integral to the execution of research projects. As a core member of the team, this individual brings a spirit of curiosity and pragmatism to each project.

Responsibilities

• Team communication
  • Collaborate with team leadership to ensure everyone understands their roles and responsibilities by facilitating regular team and project meetings, providing updates on progress, identifying potential roadblocks, and soliciting input from team members.
  • Foster positive relationships with colleagues, internal and external collaborators, and project participants, keeping them informed about project progress, changes, and potential impacts, addressing stakeholder concerns and requests promptly and professionally.
• Research compliance and ethics
  • Track trainings and certifications, including renewals.
  • Track IRB applications, including renewals.
• Project workflow and documentation
  • Assist in creating and maintaining project charters, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Collaborate with the research team and external partners to align and track project objectives, scope, and deliverables in established project management systems. Translate project plans into timelines, milestones, and resource allocation.
  • Maintain project documentation, including status reports and meeting summaries, and generate periodic project reports for team leadership, highlighting progress, issues, and recommendations.
  • Support data management processes and systems.
• Financial administration
  • Assist in budget planning and tracking, ensuring projects are executed within the allocated budget and monitor project expenses and identify cost-saving opportunities while maintaining quality.
  • Arrange for compensation for research participants.
  • Assist with processing vendor invoices.
• Logistics for research convenings, conferences, and publications
  • Contribute to planning for research convenings hosted by IREE.
  • Organize vendors, rentals, and meals for participants and partners.
  • Track conference and publication deadlines and submissions.
• Coordination for grants
  • Support grant writing in collaboration with other teams and administrators.
  • Support grant administration with other organizational administrators.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

About the organization

UL Research Institutes (ULRI) expands the boundaries of safety science to create a more secure and sustainable world. For more than a century, we have studied the unintended consequences of innovation, designed solutions to mitigate risk, and shared our findings with academia, scientists, manufacturers, and policymakers across industries. We identify critical safety and sustainability issues, asking the tough questions because we believe a safer world begins with knowledge.

The Institute for Research Experiences and Education (IREE) cultivates the next generation of safety scientists through a mix of unique educational programs, academic partnerships, and research and standards development experiences. We translate the findings of our research institutes into compelling educational materials, bringing to life scientific concepts using contemporary best education practices to create learning opportunities for a wide variety of secondary through postgraduate students. Our academic collaborations and support for the next generation of safety scientists likewise reach across the educational spectrum, including partnerships that reach out to students who are underrepresented in STEM fields. Through all of our programs, we aim to unlock the diverse perspectives that are essential for solving the world’s most pressing safety and sustainability issues.

Work environment

• People: Work with a diverse team of experts respected for their independence and transparency, collaborating across disciplines, organizations, and geographies to build the global scientific response that today’s global challenges require.
• Interesting work: Push the boundaries of human understanding as part of a team working to advance the public good, tackling varied challenges that expand the foundations of safety science.
• Growth and achievement: Learn, work, and grow together through targeted development, reward, and recognition programs.
• Values: Four core values guide our work: collaboration, respect, integrity, and beneficence. By living our values, we inspire the trust essential to fulfilling our mission and foster the partnerships that enable us to pursue a beneficent future in which we all can thrive.

Benefits

• All employees are eligible for bonus compensation.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• Generous 401k matching structure of up to 5% of eligible pay, with an additional 4% contributed into your retirement savings fund after your first year of continuous employment.
• Paid time off, including vacation, holiday, sick, and volunteer days.
• Potential for flexible working arrangements, depending on role.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and/or demonstrated interest in social science (including but not limited to education research and learning sciences), and the processes involved in conducting and administering social science research.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in project coordination, project management, or research.
• Experience or demonstrated interest in project management.
• Travel to conferences, team meetings, and research convenings as needed.

Skills

• Understanding of the ethical and pragmatic requirements for applied social science research, particularly human subjects data.
• A penchant for organization balanced with an appreciation for the human needs of colleagues and collaborators.
• Demonstrated ability to independently identify needs for projects, formulate objectives, plan, and execute tasks.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills that embody collegial and professional communication with all colleagues, collaborators, and research participants.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and the capacity to adapt to changing project requirements.
• Ability to work steadily on multiple projects while maintaining an eye on the big-picture goal of each project and the mission of the organization.