TEMP Senior Research Associate

About Us

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower our 47,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens.

Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision.

Come Take Flight at KSU!

• Job
• Location:
  
  Kennesaw, Georgia
• Full/Part Time:
  Part Time
• Regular/Temporary:
  Temporary
• Primary Location for
  
  Job Responsibilities:
  
  Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.
• Secondary
  
  Location:
  
  Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

• Post-doc research experience that includes conducting, disseminating, and publishing ethics, critical theory, and humanistic research; mentoring undergraduate and graduate students; reviews, books, articles, and other publications and presentations at local, state, and national level.
• Successful media, technology, or business industry (non-academic) experience, such as start-up, entrepreneurial, managerial, or executive experience, or similar, in order to successfully bridge the gap between knowledge generation and application.
• Expertise in qualitative and critical approaches alongside excellent proficiency in interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration.
• Experience with data collection processes (e.g., focus group facilitation, face-to-face and telephone interviewing, conducting observations, surveys, case studies, critical theory, critical discourse analysis, critical and interpretive ethnography).

Responsible for the planning, implementation, and execution of research activities leading to the establishment of an externally funded research program (e.g., experimental design and implementation, data collection, reduction, and interpretation, manuscript and grant development, and administrative tasks related to the research). May serve as Principal Investigator (PI)/CO-PI for projects and grants, as well as other interdepartmental projects that can be used as cost-share for the research center.

• Plans, leads, conducts, and reports original research initiatives; performs research activities leading to externally funded research program.
• Designs, constructs, and operates highly complex research apparatus.
• Conducts experimental design and implementation, data collection, reduction, interpretation, manuscript and grant development.
• Mentors undergraduate students performing research and supervises research lab.
• Uses standard evaluation tools and methods and assists in creation of new data collection instruments when necessary.
• Responsible for grant writing, proposal development.
• Coordinates with other campus academic colleges to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to research.
• Performs all duties described in grants and external projects, including but not limited to preparing progress and final reports, conducting literature reviews, collecting and analyzing data, attending grant related meetings, and preparing publications.
• Supervises and mentors other members of grant team when required by grant.
• Disseminates knowledge through reports, articles, white papers, other publications and presentations at local, state and national level.
• Prepares lectures and presentations.

Doctoral degree in discipline related to the specific research.

At least three (3) years post-doctoral research experience.

• An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a related field such as higher education, student affairs, student personnel services, educational leadership, or a related field.
• Experience with grant writing and securing grants.
• Experience conducting mixed-methods research, including quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Proficient computer skills, use of statistical packages and proficiency in navigating and maintaining databases.
• Experience with statistical analysis software (SPSS);
  Stata and NVivo is preferred.
• Experience with data collection processes (e.g., focus group facilitation, face-to-face and telephone interviewing, conducting observations).

• Extensive documented…