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Booth Booth CDR: Operations - Kwong

About the Department

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:

-an unmatched faculty.

-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.

-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.

-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University\'s core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary

The Roman Family Center for Decision Research (RFCDR) is devoted to the study of how individuals form judgments and make decisions. Researchers at the RFCDR examine the processes by which intuition, reasoning, and social interaction produce beliefs, judgments, and choices. The Lab Research Professional supports faculty members, research professionals, and PhD candidates with their research projects and provides managerial and administrative support within the RFCDR Labs\' research operations.

This position is expected to last two-years, with the possibility of a third year if mutually desired. The ideal candidate being one who is interested in gaining a few years of post-baccalaureate research and professional experience before pursuing graduate study in the behavioral sciences.

Responsibilities

Serves as research project manager for studies that are conducted in the RFCDR Labs by affiliated faculty and graduate students, managing the full life cycle of each research study from research request submission through final delivery of collected data, across RFCDR Lab sites (Mindworks, Campus Lab, Virtual Lab, and Pop-up Lab locations).

Conducts recruitment, consent, management of study sessions, and debriefing of participants in research conducted in the RFCDR Labs. Demonstrates expertise in providing information to Lab visitors/participants about the field of behavioral science and serves as a positive ambassador for the RFCDR, assisting with recruitment initiatives as needed.

Provides consulting and feedback for faculty and graduate student researchers to help optimize and troubleshoot research study materials to be conducted in the RFCDR Labs, communicating research study management updates with faculty members and their research teams in a timely manner.

Assists in interviewing, hiring, training, approving hours, and managing RFCDR Labs research assistants, providing ongoing oversight of research assistant interaction with Lab visitors and data collection with study participants and oversight of research assistant professional developme t activities, including the annual research assistant research project.

Maintains current training in research ethics, including the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program), and assists in training and overseeing the RFCDR Labs research assistants as they engage with participants.

Manages and analyzes datasets, entering, coding, and providing descriptive and statistical analysis of data as needed, for faculty members\' research studies conducted in the RFCDR Labs, as well as for operational and accounting records maintained for the Labs.

Provides support in optimizing research operations in the RFCDR Labs, by maintaining and reviewing operational records for the Labs and supporting ongoing operational initiatives and conducting and presenting data analysis as needed from these records (e.g., for quarterly meetings).

Assists with procurement and management of inventory. Maintains and tracks all materials, equipment, logs, and any other items required to conduct faculty research projects carried out in the CDR Labs. Assists with procurement of study-related supplies and materials, and manages expenses using UChicago ePayment and GEMS online systems.

Actively participates and collaborates within one faculty lab group (lab group placement to be determined by mutual agre