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.

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Location

(Primary Location for

Job Responsibilities ) Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.

Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Department Information

DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

1. 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 performing research; preparing lectures, reports, literature national level

2. 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 gap between knowledge generation and application

3. Expertise in qualitative and critical approaches alongside excellent proficiency in interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration

4.

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)

Job Summary

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.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Plans, leads, conducts, and reports original research initiatives; performs research activities leading to externally funded research program

2. Designs, constructs, and operates highly complex research apparatus

3. Conducts experimental design and implementation, data collection, reduction, interpretation, manuscript and grant development

4. Mentors undergraduate students performing research and supervises research lab

5. Uses standard evaluation tools and methods and assists in creation of new data collection instruments when necessary

6. Responsible for grant writing, proposal development

7. Coordinates with other campus academic colleges to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to research

8. 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

9. Supervises and mentors other members of grant team when required by grant

10. Disseminates knowledge through reports, articles, white papers, other publications and presentations at local, state and national level

11. Prepares lectures and presentations

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Doctoral degree in discipline related to the specific research

Required Experience

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

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Educational Qualifications

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

Preferred Experience

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…