Research Assistant II: Bilingual language development, UC-San Diego

RESEARCH POSITION DESCRIPTIONWe are seeking an exceptional individual for a full-time LaboratoryAssistant. The candidate will oversee data collection and analysis fora five-year NIH-funded longitudinal study of language development inEnglish-learning, Spanish-learning, and Bilingual children, frominfancy to early childhood. Responsibilities include: communicating*in Spanish and English* with parents and children, running behavioraltests and interviewing parents, maintaining a project database,overseeing student assistants, providing general laboratoryassistance, and communicating with collaborating laboratories.REQUIREMENTS- Ability to communicate in Spanish and English with parents,toddlers, and researchers- Experience working with infants and children- Familiarity with research methods in developmental or experimentalpsychology, or psycholinguistics- Ability to use computers (MS Word, Excel etc.), and learn to usedatabase and statistical software- Excellent organization skills, including maintenance of physicaland electronic filing systems- Ability to train and oversee undergraduate student assistants- Preferred: Familiarity with research/theory on child development,language learning, and/or cognitive science- Preferred: Experience carrying out inferential statistics (in,e.g., SPSS, SAS, Matlab, R)- Must have transportation. Background check required.FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO APPLY: Go to http://jobs.ucsd.edu/.Reference job #60726.PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANY AND ALL SUITABLE CANDIDATES, LISTS, POSTINGS, ETC.DEPARTMENT/PROJECT OVERVIEWThe Cognitive Development Lab(http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~deak/cdlab/index.html, Gedeon Deák, PI)is situated in the Department of Cognitive Science(http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/) at UC San Diego conducts research onsocial and communicative development in infants and toddlers, behaviorpatterns in infant-parent interactions, word learning and sentenceprocessing in young children, executive functions and language inchildren. Researchers in the lab utilize a variety of methods,including: experimental behavioral tests, micro-behavioral videoethnography, EEG acquisition and analyses, motion capture, salivaryassays, computational and virtual-agent simulations, standardizedquestionnaires, and on-line surveys. The lab is closely affiliatedwith the Center for Human Development (http://chd.ucsd.edu/) and theCenter for Research in Language (http://crl.ucsd.edu/). Researchers inthe lab collaborate with more than 30 researchers and faculty in labsat UCSD and universities in the United States and 11 other countries.UC-San Diego is an Equal Opportunity / Staff Affirmative ActionEmployer that values a diverse workforce and provides reasonableaccommodations to people with disabilities.-- Gedeon O. Deák, Ph.D.Department of Cognitive Science9500 Gilman Dr.Univ. CA, San DiegoLa Jolla, CA 92093-0515http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~deak/cdlabph (858) 822-3352fax (858) 534-1128