The Cognitive Development Laboratory at Indiana University (Linda Smith) is seeking a Project Manager for a study of the development of visual object recognition in infants and young children. This full time one year position, with benefits and a possible one year extension, is ideal for a recent graduate who wants research experience in an active and nationally recognized developmental laboratory --surrounded by outstanding graduate students and post docs --prior to applying to graduate school. Please apply by email, with (1) a resume that summarizes your educational and research background, and skills with respect to those listed below and (2) contact information for two references, to smith4@indiana.edu. Please also copy the application email to cfausey@indiana.edu.
The Essential Skills:
-excellent organization skills ( to keep things running smoothly)
-excellent problem-solving initiative (notice and solve problems before other team members)
-excellent communication skills ("in the loop" )
- highly self-directed
-work well with others, experience coordinating work in teams
-familiarity with word, powerpoint, excel
-comfortable learning new tech skills (e.g., new software; programming)
-experience in a psychology or cognitive science research lab (or related fields, e.g., linguistics, computer science, anthropology)
The Desirable Skills (or skills you would really like to learn):
-experience collecting data from babies and toddlers
-experience with eyetracking data collection and/or analysis
-familiarity with photo, video editing and graphic design software (e.g., Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Rhino)
-familiarity with statistical analysis & software (e.g., SPSS, R)
Bonus skills (these would be a plus but not required, however a willingness to learn Matlab and R is expected)
-experience programming for the web (e.g., html, java, Mechanical Turk)
-experience programming (e.g., Python, Matlab, R)
Project Responsibilities may include:
-coordinating tasks for a multi-step, long-term project (tracking what has been done & what to do next)
-managing complex database of tags for photo & video data
-coordinating online data collection
-manual coding of behavioral video data (e.g., identifying objects across frames; children's pointing behavior during experiments)
-transcribing recorded speech data
-recruiting research participants to a child development lab
-collecting data from babies & children (including eyetracking)
-data entry
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