Session Facilitator - Part Time

The pay rate for this position is $21/hour. Hourly wage is based on experience and geographical location.

• Flexible work schedule
• Access to an employee discount program
• Reimbursable travel time and mileage

Session Facilitators are responsible for:

• Traveling to selected locations to administer student surveys, discuss the study, answer questions, and review/set-up student survey logistics with school representatives
• Maintaining communication with supervisor to ensure timely follow-up on requests
• Collecting confidential information and maintaining confidentiality of all student data collected
• Maintaining data security and transmitting data as scheduled; after student sessions
• Independently managing administrative duties, including participating in virtual conference calls with supervisors, other members of the project team, and completing online trainings
• Assuming full and legal responsibility for use and care of project issued equipment
• Safeguarding any participant incentives, issued equipment, or project materials against damage, loss, or theft; returning project issued equipment, incentives, and supplies
• Submitting timely and accurate Time & Expense reports
• Attending virtually scheduled meetings with other members of the project team
• Administer a school-based computerized student survey to students and/or virtual synchronous student surveys, when required
• Ability to work a variable work schedule, as dictated by school schedules (primarily early mornings through mid-afternoon M-F)
• Tracking parental permission results, communications with school coordinators, and log updates daily related to logistics
• Completing school debriefing forms, uploading, and transmitting student session data within 24 hours
• Demonstrate the ability to work with supervisor and complete assignments on schedule and maintain communication to ensure timely follow-up on requests
• Completing all required activities in a professional manner, while maintaining the integrity and confidentiality of all information acquired
• Position involves daily physical demands of walking, lifting, standing, carrying equipment, bending, stretching, stooping, typing, etc. Physical effort includes equipment weight up to 15 pounds
• Overnight travel may be required, based on assignment location

RTI International, is seeking part-time Session Facilitators to administer school-based computerized student surveys for the Pennsylvania Career & Technical Education Assessments Study (PA CTE). Session Facilitators (SFs) prepare for and conduct in-school data collection according to project protocols. SFs ensure that field data collection activities are carried out in an efficient and cost-effective manner, that the data collected are of the highest possible quality, and that all activities are conducted in a professional manner following established procedures set forth by the project and RTI/DCS.

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​This important research study is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.​

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Must possess High School Diploma or GED
• Possess effective communication skills through speech and listening
• Fluency in English through reading, writing, and speaking
• Available for entire training and data collection period
• Able to successfully complete training
• Must have a valid US driver's license and reliable personal automobile available for business use
• Comfortable using personal tablet/laptop for business use, and any RTI issued equipment
• Access to password-protected Wi-Fi connection for data transmissions and administrative responsibilities
• Able to keep project information confidential
• Must have a personal mobile phone to place and receive unlimited calls and texts from schools, supervisors, tech support, and project staff
• Willingness to work in various types of weather conditions and after dark
  
• Ability to read text verbatim from paper documents and the computer

Preferred Qualifications for Ideal Candidates

• Associate's Degree
• Prior in-school data collection experience
• One year experience directly or indirectly related to teaching, working with children in a school setting and/or field interviewing experience
• Ability to use laptop for…