Research Associate, Social Marketing

Description

Our strategic health communications and social marketing work tackles some of society’s greatest challenges and drives audiences to make positive attitudinal and behavioral changes.

A growing research team needs a self-starter to support formative, process, and summative evaluations that guide the planning, implementation, and revision of national health communications and social marketing campaigns. This entry-level position is ideal for someone who is starting a career in mixed methods (i.e., qualitative and quantitative) research and likes to support multiple projects.

We seek to hire a Research Associate to support formative, process, and summative evaluations that guide the planning, implementation, and revision of national health communications and social marketing efforts.

As a Research Associate, you will

• Help develop recruitment and data collection materials (e.g., format surveys or interview guides).
• Support sampling (e.g., search for sources in EBSCO, Google Scholar, and other portals; schedule individual or group interviews with potential participants; distribute survey invitations).
• Assist with data collection (e.g., abstract information from the sources, take notes during individual or group discussions).
• Enter data using software such as Microsoft Excel.
• Support data analysis (e.g., code text using software such as NVivo or MaxQDA).
• Assist with reporting (e.g., create and format tables and graphs using software such as Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Looker Studio or PowerPoint, manage reference lists using software such as EndNote).
• Coordinate purchasing, subcontracting, and consulting requisitions by obtaining and comparing vendor and consultant quotes, establishing suitable justifications, developing or modifying forms, and processing payments.

As a Research Associate, you will have

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree in public health, the social sciences, marketing or a related field *