MCTFR Part-Time Recruiter

Position Overview:
This is a 50%, 20 hours per week, 12-month continuous position for someone with considerable experience and expertise in recruiting research participants as well as knowledge of the information technology systems at the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research (MCTFR). The primary responsibility for the person filling this position will be to actively recruit participants in two MCTFR protocols: COMN-PATHS and ITR. In this capacity, this person will also be charged with ensuring relevant training manuals are up to date. While this position will not have direct supervisory responsibilities, the individual filling this position will work to develop ways to evaluate remote recruitment work and supervise undergraduate research assistants with study responsibilities. The person filling this position will work closely with MCTFR researchers and other recruiters, so outstanding communication and organizational skills are essential.

Job Responsibilities:
(75%) Recruitment
- Recruit participants in existing MCTFR protocols and manage their progression through a research protocol:
- - - Contact and encourage current and potential new research participants to engage in a research protocol, which may consist of an in-person visit, a videoconference interview, an online questionnaire, the collection of biospecimens (e.g., saliva, blood), neurocognitive testing, and brain scans.
- - - Schedule research participants' visits and arrange associated logistical support (e.g., payment, parking, lodging)
- - - Electronically track the progress of research participants through the study protocol, identifying potential bottle-necks.
- - - Understand the scientific goals and significance of the study and have the ability to explain those goals to participants and others in ways that they will understand and find it engaging.
- Ensure goals related to ethics, rigor, and scientific validity are adhered to in recruiting.
- Ensure recruitment training manuals and documentation are up to date.
- Train new recruiters on relevant MCTFR IT systems including but not limited to MIRANDA, IS, PERSON, TYSK, RECRUITMENT NOTES.
- Provide training in recruitment record keeping for all active protocols.
- Train RAs on contact mailing process. Ensure compliance of team members with protocols.

(25%) Administration
- Data entry/management (update databases, edit monthly birth records, monitor participant incentive inventory). Ensure accuracy and integrity of records.
- Request participant payments in Greenphire.
- Track ITR recruitment progress, create reports for Principal Investigators (PIs) regarding progress and achievement of recruitment goals. Make recommendations to PIs on strategies to ensure and improve recruitment.

Required Qualifications:
- BA/BS plus at least 2 years of experience in a unit funded by sponsored awards or a combination of education and work experience to equal six years;
- First-hand knowledge of MCTFR recruitment procedures and relevant information and record keeping systems.
- Requires working on evenings and weekends;
- Comfortable communicating with people and persuading individuals to participate in research;
- Experience maintaining production databases, including REDCAP.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience recruiting human subjects in a longitudinal or clinical trial research;
- Ability to empathically connect with twins and family members, and understand their needs and concerns;
- Knowledge of research ethics and IRB rules and policies concerning the recruitment of research subjects;
- Knowledge of research design and methods commonly used in psychology or epidemiology;
- Organizational, time-management, decision-making and problem solving skills;
- Team leadership skills;
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

About the MCTFR

The Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research has assembled a nationally recognized team of researchers whose mission is:

To understand vulnerability to negative mental and physical health outcomes, and related behavioral problems such as substance use disorders.
To identify risk and protective factors for adaptive and maladaptive development across the lifespan, including environmental, family, and sociodemographic and contextual factors.
To uncover the interplay of genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of mental and physical health outcomes.
To track the developmental trajectory of aspects of mental and physical health across the lifespan, from the prenatal period into older adulthood.
To identify the neural circuits and neurobiological processes associated with mental and physical health outcomes.
To identify and characterize genes that affect psychopathology and addiction.
To promote the training, translational and diversity missions of NIH institutes that support our efforts (e.g. NIDA, NIAAA, NIMH, NICHD, and NIA).

About the Department of Psychology

The Department of Psychology ranks among the top academic departments in the nation and throughout the world. Psychology has 43+ core faculty members and graduate programs in Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research; Cognitive and Brain Sciences; Counseling Psychology; Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavioral Genetics; Quantitative/Psychometric Methods; and Social Psychology. The Department of Psychology offers programs leading to B.A., B.S., and Ph.D. degrees. For additional information, please visit the Department of Psychology website, at .

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Home to the arts, social sciences and humanities disciplines and programs, the College of Liberal Arts is the largest college in the University of Minnesota and comprises 31 academic departments, and over 20 interdisciplinary research centers and administrative/support units. CLA has over 1,300 faculty and staff spanning research, teaching, advising, outreach, and administrative functions. CLA units reside in over twenty buildings on the East Bank and West Bank of the Twin Cities campus. CLA enrolls nearly 13,000 undergraduate students, over 40% of the undergraduate enrollment on the Twin Cities campus, 1,400 graduate students, and has an annual all-funds budget of $290 million.

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