Position Title: Research Assistant (RA)
Quarter: Summer
Supervising Faculty: June Spector
Start Date: June 16, 2022
End Date: September 15, 2022
Application Deadline: May 20, 2022
Estimated Weekly Hours: 20-40 hours
Position Description: The work of Dr. Spector’s research group, within the School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health (PNASH) Center, focuses on understanding risks for heat-related health effects and resilience factors, and preventing adverse heat health effects for working populations. This RA supports summer projects to characterize workplace heat exposure, farmworker housing conditions, and how housing conditions relate to work conditions, heat exposure, and sleep for farmworkers. This RA will support data cleaning and analysis of farmworker housing, activity, and sleep data that have already been collected and the development and implementation of plans to further characterize field environmental exposures. This work has the potential to be considered in state policies around heat and health. There is the potential for continuation of this RA into Fall quarter.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The RA will, with the support and collaboration of research team:
- Organize and clean farmworker housing, activity, and sleep data.
- Assist with the development of analysis plans and the analysis of farmworker housing, activity, and sleep data.
- Assist with the development of a sampling plan for field heat and humidity exposure data collection.
- Assist with collection of field heat and humidity exposure data.
- Organize and clean field heat and humidity exposure data.
- Assist with the analysis and visualization of field environmental data.
- Assist with report and manuscript writing.
Required Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:
- Strong organizational and critical thinking skills
- Prior experience with cleaning and processing data and conducting descriptive quantitative analyses
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Motivation and ability to work independently
- Strong interpersonal skills
Desired Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:
- Proficiency with R for data analysis
- Prior experience in developing data analysis plans
- Prior experience with field exposure data collection
- Prior experience with scientific writing
- Interest in occupational and environmental health and/or agricultural housing
and/or farmworker health - Ability to converse in Spanish
Eligibility:
- Must be a current UW graduate student.
Salary and Terms of Employment:
- This is an Academic Student Employee (ASE) position governed by the UAW 4121 Contract and will be paid in accordance with regular salary schedules.
How to Apply:
- Send a single PDF document that includes your résumé and a brief cover letter describing how your skills and experience qualify you for this position to June Spector (spectj@uw.edu) by the application deadline listed above.
More Information about This Position: This job classification is governed by a negotiated labor contract and is subject to union shop provisions. For more information about union shop provisions,
http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/jobs/apl/union-info.html
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