Senior Research Assistantship - Professional

Apply for Senior Research Assistantship | Monk Prayogshala SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP JOB PROFILE No of Openings Closing Date for 3 Job Openings

Work Timings: 2 Opening for Indian Timings (5/6 day week depending on workload), 1 Opening for European/North American Timing (5/6 day week depending on workload)

Education: UG (BA/ BSc Psychology / Sociology / Economics / Anthropology), PG (MA/ MSc Psychology / Sociology / Economics / Anthropology) or in lieu of degree 1-3 years of equivalent experience.

Experience: 1 year preferable in the relevant job profile.

Functional Area: All areas in Psychology / Sociology / Economics / Public Policy/ Gender Studies (Basic and Applied).

Desired Candidate Profile:

• A minimum of 1 year of formulating research proposals and conducting at least one research project/study is a must.

• Should have strong analytic skills, academic writing skills and a solid understanding of the entire research development cycle.

• Should have prior exposure to information/courses in Research Methodology, Statistics and basic theories related to relevant research areas.

• Should have functional knowledge of relevant theoretical concepts in desired research field.

• Should have excellent troubleshooting skills.

• Good communication skills with good command over written and spoken English and spoken Hindi, for communication in India and internationally.

• Should have worked in a University/college or alternatively in the Research Intern/Research Assistant function of a medium to large government/independent Research Organization.

• Should be able to effectively communicate and coordinate with internal and external Research Authors, Research Operation Administrators and Research Interns for each research project.

• Should have reported to the Research Author.

NOTE: Candidates may mail links to their research paper portfolio or bring the same along on a pen drive.

Job Description:

• Preparing Research Proposals, guiding preparation of Literature Reviews and coordinating with the Research Author for implementation of the research study.

• Programming experiments in Open Sesame, Wextor and Inquisit as required including the use of their web application frameworks.

• Capacity for planning multiple research projects.

• Deployment and monitoring automation of projects at various stages.

• Planning and executing automation and implementation of permanent resolutions to prevent outages / downtimes for multiple projects.

• Planning and architecting experiments for high availability, scalability and reliability.

• Should have intermediate or expert knowledge and functional experience with some or all of the following technologies:

  • Databases: Science Direct, Google Scholar, Springer, Taylor Francis, Sage, Wiley, PsycINFO, DOAJ, openDOAR.