Research Associate

What you'd do

• Design, plan, and coordinate community-based participatory research, public health program planning, and public health evaluation activities.
• Develop and implement qualitative and mixed-methods research protocols (e.g., community needs assessments, key informant interviews, focus groups, surveys, and other participatory evaluation methods), ensuring ethical and rigorous data collection.
• Collaborate with community-based organizations, school districts, local health departments, and other public health stakeholders and research teams to ensure successful implementation of project activities, and ensure findings are relevant and actionable.
• Develop online tools, including surveys tools to collect qualitative and quantitative data.
• Manage data collection and support analysis of qualitative and quantitative data using appropriate software and techniques (such as Qualtrics and REDCap); maintain organized and secure data records.
• May supervise research and data collection assistants involved in program evaluation activities.
• Support capacity-building activities with partner organizations, such as workshops, training, and dissemination events.
• Coordinate research learning events and other activities to enhance the culture of research.
• Assist in preparing reports to funding agencies.
• Summarize and disseminate results for peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, reports, and translating findings for community stakeholders, policymakers, and practitioners.

What they want

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, health education, health promotion, social and behavioral sciences, community health, or closely related social science discipline.
• Two years of related public health, health education, health promotion, program management experience.

About Texas A&M University System

As one of the fastest-growing academic health centers in the nation, Texas A&M Health encompasses five colleges and numerous centers and institutes working together to improve health through transformative education, innovative research and team-based health care delivery. What we want The Research Associate supports the TOPS (Texas Opioid Prevention for K-12 Students) evaluation core lead.