Temp Graduate Assistant Quantitative Research
Temp Graduate Assistant Quantitative Research
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Job Description
Professor Amber Spry seeks a graduate research assistant with experience in quantitative data analysis to support a project on social group identity in United States politics. The RA will assist with preliminary data analysis for a survey experiment measuring the impact of identity (race gender ideology religion) on political attitudes and behaviors. The RA should be skilled in data analysis and able to perform tasks such as data visualization creating tables and figures multivariate regression analysis other advanced forms of quantitative analysis and data manipulation in R. The RA may also assist with writing literature reviews for publications related to the project and should possess basic knowledge of causal inference and intergroup behavior in United States politics. This project will be of interest to graduate students whose work engages political science identity politics gender and womens studies and related disciplines.
This opportunity is for remote work and will involve occasional zoom meetings but the RA will not be required to work from location on the Brandeis campus.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct data analysis for a new largeN dataset of U.S. residents using advanced quantitative methods
- Data visualization and reporting of findings
- Creating tables figures and charts for publication and presentation
- Composing literature reviews
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Must be reliable organized and detail oriented
- Strong quantitative analysis skills
- Able to complete analysis tasks on a deadline with minimal to no supervision.
- Experience with R
- M.A. or Ph.D. student in political science sociology psychology statistics or related discipline
Compensation:
- $25 per hour
- RA is expected to provide 1012 hours of support per week to the project
- Time commitment: January May 2023
Equal Opportunity Statement
Brandeis University is an equal opportunity employer which does not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race color ancestry religious creed gender identity and expression national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation pregnancy age genetic information disability caste military or veteran status or any other category protected by law (also known as membership in a protected class)
Employment Type
Part-Time
