Job Title

Student Technician

Agency

Texas A&M Agrilife Research

Department

Dallas

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

Dallas, Texas

Job Type

Student Worker

Job Description

The Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture seeks a Student Technician I to work in close collaboration and coordination with the Healthy Living research team, whose work focuses on addressing health disparities and promoting nutrition and health equity through clinical and community-engaged randomized controlled trials as well as dissemination and implementation research and related projects. The Student Technician I will provide project managers and staff with administrative and technical support for Healthy Living research projects and initiatives and will be based at the AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas (Dallas Center).

The Student Technician I will contribute to achieving the goals of the Healthy Living program and projects that are focused on health equity and health disparities; food access, food systems, food insecurity, and dietary patterns and behaviors; physical activity behaviors and intervention development; policy system and environmental change; citizen science and community-engaged research; and mHealth technologies for monitoring, assessment, and intervention implementation.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (IHA) is the world’s first academic institute to bring together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture, and social and behavioral research to reduce diet-related chronic disease and lower health care costs in a way that supports producers and the environment. Composed of three focus areas – Healthy Living, Responsive Agriculture, and Precision Nutrition – the IHA brings together experts across many disciplines, including agriculture; nutrition; behavioral, social and life sciences; engineering; data and computation science; and economics. Healthy Living aims to rapidly apply knowledge from research to the needs of producers and consumers, and conduct dissemination and behavioral implementation research that quickly translates findings from the other two focus areas to the community and producers.

Healthy Living research, led by IHA Associate Director, Dr. Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, focuses on the development, evaluation and dissemination of community-engaged health promotion and chronic disease prevention intervention programs that integrate individual, sociocultural, environmental, and policy/system-level factors.

The Student Technician I will provide project managers and staff with administrative and technical support for Healthy Living research projects and initiatives. Major responsibilities include preparing materials for study recruitment and data collection, attending study recruitment and data collection events, preparing materials and implementing Healthy Living programs (e.g., physical activity and nutrition), entering and cleaning data in online databases (e.g., REDCap, Qualtrics, Excel, SPSS), and supporting other office-related tasks (e.g., attending meetings, taking meeting minutes, organizing supplies).

Responsibilities:

• Prepares materials for and attends study recruitment and data collection

• Prepares materials for and implements Healthy Living programs (e.g., physical activity, nutrition)

• Enters and cleans data in online databases (e.g., REDCap, Qualtrics, Excel, SPSS)

• Supporting other office-related tasks (e.g., attending meetings, taking meeting minutes, organizing supplies)

• Maintains orderly work environment

• Performs other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual (English and Spanish)

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer.

As the largest comprehensive agriculture and life sciences program nationally, Texas A&M AgriLife brings together a college and four state agencies within the Texas A&M University System With over 5,000 employees, and a presence in every county across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife is uniquely positioned to improve lives, the environment, and the economy of Texas and the nation through education, research, extension and service.If your goal is the pursuit of excellence and your vision is to make a difference in this world, we invite you to explore our opportunities to discover what a career at Texas A&M AgriLife has to offer you.

Texas A&M AgriLife is comprised of the following Texas A&M University System members:

• Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service (https://agrilife.tamu.edu/agency/extension-home/)

• Texas A&M AgriLife Research

• College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University (https://agrilife.tamu.edu/agency/college-home/)

• Texas A&M Forest Service

• Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (https://agrilife.tamu.edu/agency/tvmdl-home/)

  Texas A&M AgriLife collaborates with Prairie View A&M University, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas A&M University-Kingsville and West Texas A&M University as well as with other public and private partners.

• Prospective employee benefits

• Retirement programs

• Commitment to inclusive excellence (https://agrilife.tamu.edu/about/diversity-inclusion/)

• Strategic plan