Job Details

Temporary Researcher

Position Number: 6373885
Location: Boulder, CO
Position Type: Laboratory and Research

Temporary Researcher

Requisition Number: 65820
Location: Boulder Colorado
Employment Type: Research Faculty
Schedule: Part Time
Posting Close Date: 14-Jul-2025
Date Posted:

Job Summary

The Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Lab (PI: Gruber) is seeking a part-time hourly position for a research coordinator for the coming academic year. The position will oversee project coordination on an NSF-funded project examining emotion and mental health in young adults and community samples with mood difficulties and will involve opportunities to contribute to other ongoing studies in the lab if interested.
CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Who We Are

The Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Lab (www.gruberpeplab.com) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students under the directorship of Dr. June Gruber who work together towards understanding positive emotional processes and their relevance for understanding adaptive and maladaptive relevant psychological-health outcomes. Our research uses a multi-modal affective science approach to understand positive emotion and reward-related difficulties in psychopathology. Her work examines perturbations in positive valence systems in clinical populations characterized by positive emotion difficulties (e.g., bipolar disorder and depression) as well as across other clinical phenomenon and in healthy community samples of adults and adolescents. More information about our research can be found here: http://www.gruberpeplab.com/research.php Recent publications can be found here: http://www.gruberpeplab.com/people.php

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

Job Tasks include some or all of the following: 1. Assist with preparing laboratory studies, including IRB, ordering supplies and preparing tasks. 2. Recruit (fliers, website, telephone, newspaper ads emails), screen and schedule study participants. 3. Assist with experimental design (e.g. create questionnaires; create stimuli presentation using Qualtrics, Medialab, and other similar experimental software). 4. Set up, operate, and maintain research equipment for use in the experiments. 5. Collect data with clinically-relevant populations, including administering surveys (e.g., Qualtrics), overseeing implementation structured clinical interviews, computer administered tasks (e.g., using EPrime and MediaLab), and psychophysiological hook-up and data analysis (e.g., using Mind Ware and/or BIOPAC equipment). 6. Assist in creating, managing, and maintaining multiple databases (e.g., participant tracking, data, follow-up using Qualtrics, RedCap and/or FileMaker). 7. Maintain project-related documents and materials, including IRB protocols and budgets. 8. Assist with oversight of research assistants in laboratory under PI's supervision.

What You Should Know

Oversee data management, cleaning, and analysis (using Excel, SPSS, R). May assist in writing first drafts IRB amendments, progress reports to IRB and funding agencies. Flexibility to work occasional weekends and/or evenings required to accommodate data collection/participant testing schedule.

What We Can Offer

$20.00 per hour. Anticipated hours per week: 16

Benefits

Temporary positions at the University of Colorado are not benefits-eligible, however, all positions are eligible for paid sick leave.

Be Statements

Be creative. Be impactful. Be Boulder.

What We Require

B.A. or B.S. in Psychology (Min GPA 3.7 or higher)

What You Will Need

Excel experience.

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:

Resume/CV
Reference Letter(s) (Not Confidential)

For full consideration, please apply by July 14, 2025.
Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, please apply through CU Boulder Jobs.

To apply, visit https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Temporary-Researcher/65820