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SalaryJob no: 0038339
Location: Parkville
Role type: Full Time; Fixed term for 2 years
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences
School: Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Contemplative Studies Centre
Salary: Level B - $114,645 - $136,136 p.a. plus 17% super
- Play a pivotal role in the planning and management of all aspects of first flagship studies within the Contemplative Studies Centre's flagship projects.
- Make key contributions to the dissemination of project progress and outcomes throughout the project phases.
- Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families!
The Research Fellow will take a lead role in developing a comprehensive management plan for the Centre's first flagship project, guiding its trajectory from the preliminary phase through the main phase to results and outcomes. This includes day-to-day management of research studies, ethical considerations, recruitment, and data analysis. The Fellow will actively contribute to project communication, disseminating research through publications, presentations, and engagement with stakeholders, while also supporting other studies within the program and undertaking administrative tasks as needed.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Lead the development of a comprehensive project management plan for the first flagship project, including resource planning.
- Manage day-to-day aspects of research studies within the first flagship project, covering ethical considerations, recruitment, data collection, and quantitative data analysis.
- Actively contribute to project communication, including drafting manuscripts for publication, creating plain language summaries, and presenting research progress and outcomes at conferences and to stakeholder groups.
- Provide leadership within project team meetings, planning related activities, and promoting CSC and University values, including diversity and inclusion.
You have strong interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills, enabling you to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You demonstrate excellent organisational skills, time management, and effective verbal and written communication.
You will also have:
- PhD in behavioural, social or health sciences, or a related discipline.
- Advanced statistics knowledge, including linear mixed effects models, structural equation modelling, power analysis, etc.
- Experience managing randomised controlled trials in either clinical or community settings; experience working with intensive longitudinal data.
- Experience configuring databases and facilitating collection of quantitative data (esp. via Qualtrics or RedCap) and wrangling and analysing quantitative data.
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.
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If you feel this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents:
- Resume
- Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience
- The responses against the Selection Criteria^ (found in the Position Description)
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact Katherine Robertson via email at , ensuring that you include the Position Number and the Job Title as the subject. Please do not share your application to this email address.
If you have any particular questions regarding the job please follow the details listed on the Position Description.
Applications close: 8 January 2024 11:55 PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)
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