Assistant Director, Lab Operations

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 Assistant Director will manage operations of the Roman Family Center for Decision Research Labs, focusing on our Campus, Pop-up and Virtual Lab operations. In this capacity, the Assistant Director will be responsible for ensuring successful lab operations, including training and managing research professionals and research assistants who conduct research in the labs, and providing support for the operations, systems, record-keeping, accounting, equipment and facilities in the labs. The Assistant Director will serve as a primary project manager for all research projects conducted in the labs by affiliated faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers, overseeing study management from the initial project request through the conclusion of the study. This role will involve developing and maintaining partnerships in support of our research with internal and external organizations. The Assistant Director will also support internal and external research operations reporting, as well as providing support for RF-CDR events and programs.

Responsibilities

• Manages daily lab operations, including organization and scheduling of daily studies conducted in the labs, maintenance of proper record-keeping of participant data and research management, as well as payment and incentives provided for participation.
• Oversees, schedules, time-approves, hires, and trains research assistants and research professionals who conduct research with participants in the labs.  Serves as a managerial lead for RF-CDR lab staff in the Campus, Virtual, and Pop-Up Labs.
• Maintains systems and tools used to support data collection and related operational records in the labs related to general lab operations, as well as facilities and equipment management.
• Serves as a lead project manager for studies conducted in the RF-CDR labs by affiliated faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers, ensuring the full scope of work for each managed study is carried out appropriately by research assistants.
• Provides reporting to RF-CDR Leadership about research operations as required.  Contributes to weekly RF-CDR Lab staff meetings to report, review, and discuss operational procedures and outcomes. 
• Provides feedback and consulting for researchers on their study designs and issues, including technical requirements, recruitment considerations, and ethics-related issues, to help optimize and troubleshoot research studies to be carried out in the RF-CDR Labs. 
• Contributes to the design and management of recruitment methods for the RF-CDR labs for specific demographic and population needs, engineering creative solutions to recruit participants across lab locations as necessary, in coordination with the RF-CDR Communications team and RF-CDR lab managers.
• Assists with purchasing research materials, reconciling research expenses, and managing accounting records and procedures in the labs using UChicago ePayment, GEMS, and other related systems as necessary.
• Develops and maintains productive relationships with internal and external organizational partners in support of the labs and RF-CDR research.  Maintai