Job Description

• Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $54,632- $54,632

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Position Summary

The Susman Lab???s research program aims to characterize how exposure to childhood adversities leads to changes in cognitive processes via altered neurodevelopment, and how these changes lead to increased risk for negative life outcomes such as increased substance use. We use multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computational modeling of task performance to examine how exposure to adversities during childhood impact the development of decision making and related brain activity. The ultimate goal of our research program is to suggest novel approaches to the prevention and intervention of negative outcomes related to early life exposure to adversities, e.g. cognitive therapies for components of decision making impacted by childhood exposures.
The Sussman Lab works with the Center for Intergenerational Psychiatry and collaborates with the Boricua Youth Study.

Responsibilities

• Will be working with the Principal Investigator, research faculty and staff to support a multi-site research program.
• Recruiting study participants, screening potential participants to determine eligibility.
• Maintaining communication with participant families.
• Coordinating study visits, administering clinical and self-report assessments.
• Tracking and entering data into databases.
• Assisting with MRI scans of children, and tracking and updating the IRB protocol.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned/requested.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with emphasis on Psychology, Neuroscience or related field or equivalent in education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Conversional Spanish preferred.
• Experience with structured interviewing, and filed recruitment.
• Adept with detail-oriented tasks.
• Thinks critically about tasks. 

Other Requirements

• Must successfully complete all online system trainings requirements.
• Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Complete proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Able to lift at least 10lbs. 

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.

About Columbia University

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

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