Description:
Position Summary
The Department of Medical Education is seeking a enthusiastic part time non benefit eligible graduate hourly researcher. As a Graduate Hourly, you'll have the unique opportunity assisting the Principal Investigator Associate with research and data analysis.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Assumes responsibilities and assists faculty members in research and creative activities for education research projects.
- Performs tasks related to supporting on-going education research projects with a focus on data management, organization, analysis.
- Utilize best practices for data management and data query, to identify and aggregate data from multiple large databases housed within Information Resources, College and campus registrars, Admissions, and Educational Affairs.
- Additional tasks could include reviewing academic articles, project management, coordinating meetings with research team members.
- Communicates with supervisor, research team members, and staff in a collegial and timely manner.
- Assist in compiling well-written, accurate reports for program evaluation, accreditation, and research.
- Perform other related assigned duties.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
- Graduate level or enrolled in Graduate School at UIC.
- Minimum 2-year experience required in data analytics, preferably in an educational setting.
- Proficiency in Microsoft systems (Excel, PowerPoint).
- Proficiency in a subset of the following: R, Stata, SPSS, PowerBI and/or Tableau.
- Skill in managing datasets including merging data across data sets, organizing data for subsequent statistical analysis.
- Demonstrated knowledge of statistics, choose appropriate statistical analyses for educational datasets, and communicate findings.
- Skill in organizing resources and establishing priorities (e.g., managing multiple projects)
- Skill in planning, organization, coordination of activities (e.g., meetings, calendars).
- Skill in verbal and written communication.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team, exhibit patience and willingness to learn as well as to teach others.
- General knowledge of clinical education is an asset (e.g., medicine, nursing, pharmacy etc…)