Research Manager

About Child Mind Institute

We're dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need. We've become the leading independent nonprofit in children's mental health by providing gold-standard evidence-based care, delivering educational resources to millions of families each year, training educators in underserved communities, and developing tomorrow's breakthrough treatments.

The initiative includes multiple phases and components for both population and intervention studies including questionnaire development, cultural adaptations, development of survey and intervention protocols and quality control procedures, and monitoring data collection efforts. You are required to have 1) international research experience, 2) operational survey expertise, 3) experience with ethics review applications for intervention studies, 4) experience with managing intervention study participation and processes 5) exceptional organizational skills, 6) experience in managing qualitative and quantitative research projects, and 7) the ability to manage cross-team collaboration across different sites.

Reporting to the Director of the Global Landscape Mapping Initiative, this is an exempt full-time position . This is a hybrid position with 3 days+ in-office.

• Develop project plans, timelines, milestones, resource requirements and deliverables

• Prepare project-related documentation (e.g., survey methods, cognitive interviewing guides, institutional review board/ethics review documents, programming specifications, intervention protocols and processes, and progress reports).

• Draft Request for Proposals (RFPs) and seek bids from different vendors

• Manage vendor relationships, including checking deliverables and request for payments

• Manage intervention study protocols and participant recruitment

• Support preparation and management of research budgets

• Test survey protocols, monitor field progress and review quality control metrics

• Organize internal and external team meetings

• Prepare summary reports specific to sponsors

• Prepare presentations related to the initiative activities and progress

• Master's degree in a social science field

• Minimum of 3 years of operational survey experience (specifically complex surveys)

• Minimum of 3 years of international intervention research management

• Minimum of 2 years of experience managing vendors (panel providers)

• Experience in programming surveys

• Skills in standard office software applications (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Skills in report writing

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The salary range for the position is posted. Factors such as candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations affect the salary offered within this range. In addition, this salary may be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state and depending on the role), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

The Child Mind Institute is committed to creating an inclusive culture where all employees feel welcomed and valued.

The Child Mind Institute is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment based on race, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sex stereotype, gender identity/gender expression/transgender (including whether or not you are transitioning or have transitioned) and sexual orientation; national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver's license issued to persons unable to prove their presence in the United States is authorized under federal law [Vehicle Code section 12801.9]); ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/characteristics, marital status/registered domestic partner status, age (40 and over), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or regulation.