Research Specialist, 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 Specialist to support formative, process, and summative evaluations that guide the planning, implementation, and revision of national health communications and social marketing efforts.

Job Location: This role will ultimately sit onsite at our Rockville, MD office location.

As a Research Specialist you will:

• Develop recruitment and data collection materials (e.g., surveys or interview guides).
• Conduct sampling (e.g., develop literature review search terms and interview/survey inclusion/exclusion criteria and draw samples).
• Conduct data collection (e.g., extract information from the literature review sources, facilitate interviews, or coordinate survey data collection).
• Conduct data analysis (e.g., code text using software such as NVivo, or analyze campaign outcome data in SPSS, SAS, or some other software program).
• Create reports and presentations (e.g., draft white papers or develop data visuals using software such as Microsoft Excel or PowerPoint).
• Present research plans, updates, or findings at client meetings.
• Lead purchasing, subcontracting, and consulting requisitions by obtaining and comparing vendor and consultant quotes, establishing suitable justifications, developing or modifying forms, and processing payments.
• Lead research review processes (e.g., IRB or OMB approval).
• Contribute to project proposals and res