Project Coordinator, Department of Psychology

About the University of Denver

The University of Denver (DU) endeavors to be a great private university dedicated to the public good and to uphold the values of inclusion, excellence, innovation, engagement, and integrity. The University recognizes that its success is dependent on how well it lives these values, including how we engage, support, and champion members both at DU and in the greater community. To learn more about the University of Denver’s mission, vision and values, please visit: https://www.du.edu/about/mission-vision-values. The university, and department, provides a number of resources and supports for incoming faculty to support these goals.

DU is a medium-sized R1 university situated in the Denver metro area, a vibrant urban center in the Rocky Mountain region that is home to more than 3 million people. Our metropolitan location supports collaboration across local universities. DU is comprised of approximately 6,000 undergraduates (including ~700 psychology majors), 6,200 graduate students, and over 780 full-time faculty.

As the University’s largest and most varied academic unit, the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is comprised of artists, learners, performers, scholars, scientists, and teachers across 21+ departments, programs, schools, and centers and acts as a central hub where many of the University's disciplines intersect. Nearly all 6,000 undergraduates at the University take liberal arts courses with us, and about one-third of these students declare a first major in a CAHSS program. Most of our departments, programs and schools offer masters or doctoral programs. CAHSS scholars, artists, instructors, staff, and students collaborate in a shared quest for knowledge about the human condition and the development of skills to improve our local and global communities. The broad scope of CAHSS allows our students to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed at nearly any career in today’s global society.

The Department of Psychology at the University of Denver (DU) is a research-oriented unit, valuing a collaborative and integrative approach to psychological science that fosters intellectual curiosity and innovation and invests in people in a supportive and inclusive environment. Our mission is to advance psychological science by generating and sharing new knowledge through collaborative scholarship, educating and mentoring student scholars, and contributing to the public good. We are a highly collaborative, research-oriented department that values interdisciplinary perspectives and connections across traditional department areas (see www.du.edu/psychology  for more information).

Our department’s vision is to be an inclusive intellectual community that fosters discovery and innovation. Students and faculty in the Psychology Department actively engage in best practices in inclusive teaching, research, and service. Our department is home to two research institutes - the Stress, Early Experience, and Development (SEED) Research Institute (https://liberalarts.du.edu/psychology/seed) and the Relationship Science Institute. The departments PhD program is currently ranked 62 in the nation.

Position Summary

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for a number of tasks related to an NIH-funded study on LGBTQIA+ couples health and relationships early in their marriages. The primary responsibilities for the Project Coordinator are assisting the Principal Investigator and study team with all stages of the research, from IRB submission and maintenance, recruiting/enrolling participants, assisting with research study visits and administering surveys, coordinating remote data collection, and data entry, cleaning, and analysis, and report and publication preparation. Administrative and clerical tasks are also included such as scheduling, note taking, other record keeping, database management, and purchasing office supplies and materials. The Project Coordinator will work very closely with other project staff and research participants, and therefore must have excellent interpersonal skills. This position requires an in-person schedule. The position is fulltime (i.e., 40 hours per week) and comes with University of Denver’s full benefits package.

This position is 100% grant-funded.

Essential Functions

• Recruiting/enrolling participants
• Administrative tasks such as scheduling, record keeping, data collection, database management, purchasing office supplies and materials
• Administrative meetings
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal sk