Hybrid Research Assistant

at Multiplier

• Job title: Research Assistant
• Job type: Part Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $20 per hour
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Montgomery, United States

About the role

• Research Assistant conducting research on federal environmental and health agencies. Involves transcribing, coding data, and collaborating with a committed volunteer team.

Responsibilities

• Using a secure, non-networked, personal computer to transcribe interviews. Correcting, formatting, and de-identifying interview transcripts
• Coding interview transcripts in Dedoose
• Participating in research group meetings
• Handling confidential data with the highest degree of security and confidence
• Communicating openly and responsively on email, Slack, through documents, and in in-person or online meetings
• Participating in other aspects of the interview and policy working group, depending on the working group’s needs and the assistant’s interest
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Requirements

• Ability to work in Montgomery or Troy, Alabama
• Ability to protect highly sensitive and confidential data
• Coursework and/or other training in research methods and research ethics
• Experience with qualitative data collection, management, and analysis
• Coursework in or familiarity with environmental studies, environmental policy, history, sociology, anthropology, environmental humanities, or related disciplines
• Familiarity with Slack and Google Drive; experience with qualitative coding software (such as Dedoose) is desirable
• The candidate must have a personal computer with Microsoft Word, ability to access the internet, and ability to install new (small file size) programs.
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Benefits

• EDGI is a distributed collaboration operating under the fiscal sponsorship of the non-profit Multiplier, with volunteer members across North America. EDGI works to:
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• Investigate and analyze the inner workings of federal environmental policy through agency staff interviews, as well as data and documentary collection and analysis;
• Monitor and analyze changes to web-based information about the climate and environment provided by the federal government;
• Develop new ways of making federal environmental data more accessible to the public;
• Imagine, conceptualize, and move toward environmental data justice;
• Advocate for improved federal data and information governance policies and practices;
• Prototype new organizational structures and practices for distributed, collective, effective work rooted in justice.
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• For more information about EDGI, please see our website.
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