Project Coordinator, Department of Psychology

Job No: 498627 Work Type: Postdoc / Research / Fellow Location: Denver, CO Categories: Business Operations / Services, Admin / Executive / Office Support, Research

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DU is a medium-sized R1 university situated in the Denver metro area, a vibrant urban center in the Rocky Mountain region that is home to more than 3 million people. Our metropolitan location supports collaboration across local universities. DU is comprised of approximately 6,000 undergraduates (including ~700 psychology majors), 6,200 graduate students, and over 780 full-time faculty.

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The Department of Psychology at the University of Denver (DU) is a research-oriented unit, valuing a collaborative and integrative approach to psychological science that fosters intellectual curiosity and innovation and invests in people in a supportive and inclusive environment. Our mission is to advance psychological science by generating and sharing new knowledge through collaborative scholarship, educating and mentoring student scholars, and contributing to the public good.

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The Project Coordinator will be responsible for a number of tasks related to an NIH-funded study on LGBTQIA+ couples health and relationships early in their marriages. The primary responsibilities for the Project Coordinator are assisting the Principal Investigator and study team with all stages of the research, from IRB submission and maintenance, recruiting/enrolling participants, assisting with research study visits and administering surveys, coordinating remote data collection, and data entry, cleaning, and analysis, and report and publication preparation.

Administrative and clerical tasks are also included such as scheduling, note taking, other record keeping, database management, and purchasing office supplies and materials. The Project Coordinator will work very closely with other project staff and research participants, and therefore must have excellent interpersonal skills. This position requires an in-person schedule. The position is fulltime (i.e., 40 hours per week) and comes with University of Denver's full benefits package.

This position is 100% grant-funded.

• Recruiting/enrolling participants
• Administrative tasks such as scheduling, record keeping, data collection, database management, purchasing office supplies and materials
• Administrative meetings
• Other duties as assigned

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organization and administrative skills to include scheduling, data/file management, word processing (MS Word), spreadsheets (Excel), copying, phone skills and data entry
• Critical thinking skills…