Lab Manager, Roman Family Center for Decision Research

Department

Booth CDR: Operations - White

About the Department

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment. For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary

The Roman Family Center for Decision Research (RFCDR) is devoted to the study of how individuals form judgments and make decisions. Researchers at the RFCDR examine the processes by which intuition, reasoning, and social interaction produce beliefs, judgments, and choices. The Lab Manager provides managerial and administrative support within the RFCDR Labs’ research operations.

Responsibilities

• Manages recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, approving hours, and overseeing RF-CDR Labs research assistants, providing ongoing oversight of research assistant interaction with Lab visitors and support of research assistant professional development activities. Coordinates with University partners including the Career Services office staff in recruiting and supporting student research assistant staff.
• Oversees recruitment initiatives for visitors to Mindworks as well as in support of overall RF-CDR lab operations, including recruiting of Mindworks visitors into Club Mindworks, the RF-CDR Virtual Lab, and other RF-CDR programming initiatives.  Coordinates with RF-CDR Communications team members in developing and delivering recruitment content.  
• Manages science communications, demonstrating expertise in providing educational information to Lab visitors and participants about the field of behavioral science, and training and overseeing research staff members’ science communications, to support the Mindworks team’s ability to serve as positive ambassadors for the RF-CDR.  Coordinates with the Mindworks Chief Scientist in overseeing and enhancing science communications and visitor engagement carried out by the Mindworks staff.
• Maintains current training in research ethics, including the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program), and assists in training and overseeing the RF-CDR Labs research assistants as they engage with participants, as well as maintaining documentation of RF-CDR team member’s ethics training.
• Manages the operational IRB protocol records in support of research lab operations, updating team member and ethics training records as needed.
• Manages and analyzes operational datasets, providing descriptive and statistical analysis of operational and accounting records maintained for the Labs. 
• Optimizes lab operations in the RFCDR Labs, by maintaining and reviewing operational records for the Labs, supporting ongoing operational initiatives, and conducting and presenting data analysis as needed from these records, such as for quarterly meetings.
• Oversees procurement and management of inventory. Maintains and tracks all materials, equipment, logs, and any other items required to conduct faculty research projects carried out in the CDR Labs. Manages procurement of study-related supplies and materials.
• Manages and reconciles expenses using UChicago systems, including GEMS, etc.  Assists in maintaining budget and accounting records related to participant payments, and assists with production of research chargeback records and reporting.
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