Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Postdoctoral Research Scholar 0-5 yrs Experience

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Post Doc. Salary: $6,000.00 - $6,000.00. Close Date: 7/22/2026.

This position is budgeted at $6,000.00 per month and is non‑negotiable.

Established in 1943, the mission of the SDSU Research Foundation (SDSURF) is to support the research objectives of San Diego State University by helping faculty and staff find, obtain, and administer funding for their research and sponsored programs. SDSU achieved its strategic plan goal of becoming an R1, premier public research university in early 2025 furthering discoveries, interventions, and solutions that improve communities and change the world.

SDSURF provides the full life cycle of grants services to faculty and staff to further their important work.

Our vision is to foster a culture of creativity and collaboration with integrity and respect for individuals that results in the delivery of superior service to support the university's strategic aspirations.

• Service:
  We are a service organization that strives to provide superior support to the university community to achieve SDSU's goals; we are committed to being professionally competent by setting high standards and working hard to achieve results; and we continually seeking to improve our skills and capabilities by valuing education and professional development.
• Collaboration:
  
  We seek to actively engage with our stakeholders and employees to identify issues and design solutions, build strong relationships grounded in trust, openness, and inclusion and achieve the best results by taking pride in the accomplishments of our colleagues.
• Innovation:
  We work towards inspired solutions to improve and adapt to emerging opportunities and challenges, creative ways to streamline and enhance our delivery of services through resourceful and proactive problem solving and strategic use of technology and reduction of obstacles.
• Respect:
  We promote a culture where every individual is valued and treated with dignity, we honor open‑mindedness toward different viewpoints and ideas and have a genuine appreciation for varied backgrounds, experiences, and ways of thinking.
• Integrity:
  We are committed to act with the highest ethical standards, with honesty, integrity, and transparency, provide consistent and accurate information and value and respect all individuals.

The Bilingual Development in Context (BDC) Lab at San Diego State University (SDSU) investigates language development among bilingual children, particularly children who speak a first language such as Vietnamese or Spanish and who learn English early in childhood.

The BDC lab is creating a new full‑time position to enhance our research efforts at the doctoral level.

The Postdoctoral Research Scholar will have three general roles: co‑leading research projects including supervision of research assistants and data collection and analysis, contributing to research dissemination and new grant proposals, and providing support with lab administration.

Recurring Responsibilities 95%

• Coordinate/supervise data collection for R01 grant at partner sites (Fall 2026 semester)
• Communicate regularly with project co‑lead
• Supervise completion of data cleaning and analysis tasks (e.g., scoring) (Fall 2026 semester)
• Contribute to publications and presentations as first or co‑author
• Conduct literature review for preparation of a new grant proposal (Fall 2026 semester)
• Conduct preliminary data analysis for grant proposal(s) and publications (Fall 2026 semester)
• Prepare and submit grant proposals as principal investigator (e.g., F32, EC R21) for continued funding (Spring 2027 semester)
• Supervise RA regarding academic/project related issues
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