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Temporary Researcher

Requisition Number:

65899

Location:

Boulder, Colorado

City

Boulder

State

Colorado

Employment Type:

Research Faculty

Schedule:

Part-Time

Posting Close Date:

18-Jul-2025

Date Posted:

14-Jul-2025
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Job Summary

The Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Lab (PI: Gruber) is seeking a part-time hourly position for a research coordinator. The position will oversee project coordination on an NIH-funded project examining emotion and mental health in young adults and community samples with mood difficulties. NOTE: This is an in-person (not remote or hybrid) work position and involves community participant testing and coordinating research sessions that require availability outside of traditional weekday hours to meet participant needs and run testing sessions (e.g., evenings or weekends).

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.    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

  • Primary Duties: Assist with data collection for MRI/fMRI task in young adults at risk for or diagnosed with mood difficulties (in person), with flexibility for weekend and evening times. Secondary Duties (pending time) may include: assisting with recruitment, screening and schedule study participants; creating, managing, and maintaining multiple databases (e.g., participant tracking, data (SPSS, R, Excel), follow-up using Qualtrics, RedCap and/or FileMaker).

What We Can Offer

The hiring rate for this position is $20.00 per hour, with anticipated hours to work per week: 10 hours.

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

  • B.A., B.S., or master’s degree in psychology or related field.

What You Will Need

  • Prior clinical psychology or neuroscience research lab experience. 
  • Excellent organizational skills.

What We Would Like You to Have

Prior experience with MRI/fMRI research laboratory preferred. 

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:
  1. Cover Letter
  2. Resume/CV
During the application process you will need to enter contact information for a reference who can write a letter of recommendation on your behalf. We will request the letter of recommendation immediately following your application. 

Please apply by July 18th, 2025 for consideration.

Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, applications must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs.

Posting Contact Information

Posting Contact Name: Erica Davis

Posting Contact Email: erica.davis-1@colorado.edu