Lab Assistant I

Dr. Tabea Springstein is seeking one full-time Lab Assistant to begin on September 1st, 2025. The duration for the position is one year with the opportunity for renewal based on funding, department needs, and performance. Her laboratory (Emotional Lives Lab - ) studies emotion and emotion regulation in everyday life contexts and across adulthood. The lab uses experience sampling and other ambulatory assessment methods such as smartphone-sensing. The Lab Assistant will be involved in multiple aspects of work in the lab including participant recruitment and screening, data collection, setting up and maintaining research protocols and data storage systems, authoring posters for presentation, and authoring manuscripts for publication. The Lab Assistant will also have administrative duties, including managing teams of research assistants, assisting with IRB and other documents, and maintaining study databases and lab documentation. The position is ideal for motivated individuals interested in pursuing an advanced degree in psychology or related fields.

The full salary range for the Lab Assistant is $20.01 - $23.16 per hour. We base salary offers on a variety of considerations, such as education, licensure and certifications, experience, and other business and organizational needs.

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As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

• Graduation from high school or a General Education Diploma (Required)
• Bachelor's degree in psychology or a related field (Preferred)

• Minimum of 1 year of laboratory experience or two years of college courses in the natural, physical or social sciences and laboratory experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; and knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position. (Required)
• Undergraduate level statistics course and experience with statistical analysis packages (e.g. Matlab, SPSS, R, Excel, etc.) (Preferred)
• Experience recruiting or scheduling human subjects. (Preferred)
• Experience collecting data from human subjects. (Preferred)
• Experience collecting and/or analyzing experience sampling data. (Preferred)
• Experience conducting independent research in psychology. (Preferred)

Strong written and verbal communication skills Detail-oriented with outstanding organizational and time management skills Demonstrated background and passion for research experience in psychology or related fields

Computer skills such as programming experience in R, Python, or a related programming language Proficiency in written and verbal communication in Spanish Proficiency in conducting statistical analyses with R, or another statistical package

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