Senior Researcher, Covid-19 Research and Evaluation

Key Skills

Analytical and Problem solving, Effective communication skills, Marketing Strategy, Online Advertising technologies, Public Health, R Programming, Stata

Job Description

Fors Marsh is seeking an experienced, intelligent, and motivated Researcherfor our COVID-19 Evaluation team, which is implementing and evaluating a federally funded COVID-19 public education campaign as well as other campaigns. This individual’s primary responsibility would be to lead complex analyses and writing in support of evaluation efforts for a national public education campaign to fight COVID-19. Selected individuals will be responsible for leading analyses and coordinating with project teams to successfully complete project deliverables. Specific duties include determining the approach to analyses; coordinating with other team members to execute analyses; preparing, reviewing and providing feedback on deliverables—this may include technical writing describing methods, results, and discussion of findings; and quality control of analyses. We are open to full-time remote employees.

Successful individuals in this role will thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, and highly collaborative environment. Additionally, comfortwith ambiguous and evolving projects is a central component of this role.

Responsibilities include:

• Writing manuscripts for submission to peer reviewed journals and conducting literature reviews in the fields of public health, health communication, communication, social marketing, social and behavior science, and similar areas.
• Conducting literature reviews and secondary analyses; distilling findings into actionable next steps for creative, media, and outreach colleagues.
• Summarizing relevant theoretical foundations.
• Using statistical programs like Stata, analyzing data and interpreting results from descriptive and inferential analyses to identify patterns and solutions.
• Conducting quality assurance of analyses conducted by other team members.
• Preparing presentations, memos, written reports, written proposals, and other internal or external communications summarizing research methods, findings, and implications for scientific and non-scientific (lay) audiences.
• Overseeing project tasks and deliverables and collaborating with colleagues on a day-to-day basis to work under tight deadlines to fulfill client requests.
• Directly interfacing with team members and clients to understand their needs, manage their expectations, respond to ad hoc requests, and communicate the most pertinent results to them in a way that is useful and easy to understand.
• Creating and updating Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) packages.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in public health, communication, marketing, advertising, psychology, or related field.
• A minimum of two years of professional research experience or post-graduate training in health communication, public health, communication, social sciences, such as marketing, advertising.
• Peer-reviewed journal publishing experience in public health, communication, marketing, advertising, psychology, or related fields.
• Strong grasp of health behavior and communication theories.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to concisely write scientific methods and results in plain language so they can be understood by non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as a team member or leader.
• Demonstrated experience writing, executing, and interpreting code/syntax in Stata (preferred, R also acceptable).
• Demonstrated experience working with diverse data sources.
• Willingness and ability to learn new research topic areas, methods, and analytic approaches.
• Applicants may be subject to a low-level government security investigation and must meet eligibility criteria for access to sensitive information.

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD. in public health, communication, marketing, advertising, psychology, or related field.
• Experience implementing health equity research and conducting analyses using an intersectional lens.
• Experience in applied research as part of a government contract.
• Experience working with government agencies such as FDA, CDC, or HHS.
• Experience working with weighted data.

We Offer:

Our benefits typically meet or exceed our competitors’ packages. Ways we are unique

• Ability to make an impact on people’s lives, both internal and external to the organization.
• Top-tier health, dental, vision, and long and short-term disability coverage all covered at 100% for employee coverage.
• Remote work.
• Our company culture, which values balance and allows each employee to take leave as they require it to balance the responsibilities of both their work and home lives without worrying about depleting their available leave hours.
• We provide a floating holiday bank so you can celebrate the days you value.
• Generous matching retirement contributions and no vesting period starting the third month of employment.
• Dedicated training and development budgets to expand your expertise and grow your skillset.
• You can volunteer your way with paid time off.
• You can participate in Fors Marsh staff-led affinity groups.
• Our employees receive product and service discounts through the certified B Corp network.

Salary: $88,000- $114,000

Location: Remote. United States Residents only.