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Research Project Assistant

Rutgers University

United States, New Jersey, New Brunswick

Apr 25, 2025

Position Details

Position Information

Recruitment/Posting Title	Research Project Assistant
Job Category	URA-AFT Administrative
Department	BSPPP-Heldrch Ctr Workfrce Dev
Overview	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national research university and the State of New Jersey's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. As one of the largest employers in the State of New Jersey, Rutgers University is committed not only to the students and the State that we serve, but also to the faculty and staff who work on our campuses. For two consecutive years, Rutgers is ranked on Forbes' list of America's Best Large Employers. Rutgers holds #64 of 500 employers and is the #1 New Jersey employer on the publication's 2023 list. Rutgers' commitment to its employees includes maintaining and fostering a safe, diverse, and respectful workplace environment, creating employment opportunities for our nation's military veterans, and ensuring accessibility and accommodation for individuals with disabilities.
Posting Summary	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Research Project Assistant for the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. This position is responsible for assisting in the execution of workforce development, education and training research activities, studies, technical assistance activities, and program evaluation projects. Among the key duties of the position are the following: Conducts and writes literature reviews. Develops research designs for studies and evaluations primarily involving qualitative or mixed-methods. Assists in the development of data collection protocols and IRB packages. Performs data collection efforts through surveys, interviews, focus groups with respondents, or through secondary data. Writes policy briefs, memos, research summaries, and research reports. Assists in preparing meeting agendas, meeting summaries, other research or evaluation project materials, producing timely and high quality writing, tabular and visual materials for research reports and presentations, and assisting in research project management activities such as monitoring project budgets, preparing financial and progress reports as well as communicating with study sponsors on study progress. This position is grant-funded and contingent upon available funding.
Position Status	Full Time
Hours Per Week
Daily Work Shift
Work Arrangement
FLSA	Nonexempt
Grade	03
Position Salary
Annual Minimum Salary	50065.00
Annual Mid Range Salary	62252.00
Annual Maximum Salary	74438.00
Standard Hours	37.50
Union Description	URA-AFT Administrative
Payroll Designation	PeopleSoft
Benefits	Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Seniority Unit
Terms of Appointment	Staff - 12 month
Position Pension Eligibility	ABP

Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience	Requires a bachelor's degree preferably in public policy, social work, education, sociology or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and/or relevant research experience.
Certifications/Licenses
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities	Requires the ability to work independently. Requires excellent verbal, writing and analytical, organizational and attention to detail skills, computer literacy and general communication skills. Requires some knowledge of descriptive quantitative methods and the visualization and presentation of descriptive data.
Preferred Qualifications	Master's degrees and three years of relevant work in academia, government or a nonprofit research or social services agency, and/or experience working in prior social science research studies is preferred. Experience with using one or more qualitative software packages is preferred. Experience in the representation of descriptive statistical data and graphics is also preferred, but not required.
Equipment Utilized	The position is expected to have a strong command of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and NVivo (or another similar package.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
Special Conditions

Posting Details

Posting Number	25ST0849
Posting Open Date	04/25/2025
Special Instructions to Applicants
Regional Campus	Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Home Location Campus	College Ave (RU-New Brunswick)
City	New Brunswick
State	NJ
Location Details

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