Project Coordinator

Role Description

Department

The position of a Project Coordinator has become available at the Hungry Mind Lab (www.hungrymindlab.com) at the Department of Education at the University of York. The position is to support a research project awarded by the Nuffield Foundation to Prof Sophie von Stumm. The project’s aim is to test the role of children’s early life language experiences in the transmission of family background inequality. The research focus is on understanding children’s developmental differences and charting how their early-life language experiences influence their later educational achievement and socio-emotional skills. This role would suit someone with a background in children’s early life development, language learning, or family inequality studies, with an interest in developing strong statistical skills, and the aim to complete a PhD in a social science discipline.  The post is available until 31 December 2024.

Role

The Project Coordinator will support Prof Sophie von Stumm and a post-doctoral research fellow, who works full-time on the project, in all research tasks and the day-to-day running of the project. The Project Coordinator’s responsibilities may include for example preparing transcriptions of natural speech samples for statistical analysis, conducting literature searches, preparing reference lists, formatting manuscripts for publication, assisting with preparing and writing manuscripts, organising and conducting research meetings with research project stakeholders, and pre-registering studies on open science repositories.  The Project Coordinator will receive training for each task and be supervised and supported throughout by Prof Sophie von Stumm and the project team.

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed

• The successful candidate will have completed an undergraduate degree in psychology, genomics, education or a related discipline. An additional postgraduate qualification is desirable.
• The successful candidate will have prior experience in project coordination and administration, including high standard of written and verbal communication skills, excellent planning and organisational skills, and the ability to work as part of a team as well as independently.
• Experience in working with online tools, such as the Open Science Framework or Youtube, and with video equipment is desirable. 

Interview date: TBC

For informal enquiries: please Prof Sophie von Stumm on sophie.vonstumm@york.ac.uk.

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