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Temporary Researcher

Requisition Number:

64055

Location:

Boulder, Colorado

City

Boulder

State

Colorado

Employment Type:

Research Faculty

Schedule:

Full-Time

Posting Close Date:

09-May-2025

Date Posted:

06-May-2025

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. Position duties include, for example, maintaining lab study tracking logs and databases, collecting data, monitoring longitudinal participant tracking, and facilitation of daily administrative lab tasks.

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

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

What We Can Offer

$20.00 per hour for approximately 20 hours per week.  This is a part-time position that is not eligible for benefits.  This position is temporary and limited to 1 year.

Benefits

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

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What We Require

1.  Prior clinical psychology research lab experience (minimum 2 semesters). 2. Prior experience working directly in research pertaining to mood disorders and/or mental health in emerging adults. 3. Experience using SPSS, R, and Microsoft Excel software.  4. Excellent organizational skills 

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:
  1. Resume/CV
  2. Reference Letter(s) (Not Confidential)
For consideration, please apply by 5/9/2025.

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

Posting Contact Information

Posting Contact Name: June Gruber

Posting Contact Email: june.gruber@colorado.edu