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Student Assistant Jobs in New Brunswick, NJ at Rutgers University
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Recruitment/Posting Title
Student Assistant
Job Category
Staff & Executive – Research Support (Laboratory/Non-Laboratory)
Department
The Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies
Overview
The Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (formerly Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies) is undergoing dynamic and transformative growth. The Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies is one of the nation’s leading tobacco focused research centers and its faculty have received over $50 million in extramural funding over the past two decades. The Institute’s efforts are focused on their mission of reducing and ultimately eliminating, tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.
Five Centers or Programs currently operate at the Institute including a Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, the Center of Excellence for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco, the Tobacco Dependence Program, a Tobacco Industry Marketing Program, and a Tobacco Control Law & Policy Resource Center.
Posting Summary
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Student Assistant for the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS), located in New Brunswick, NJ.
Under direction of the Associate Professor, the Student Assistant will perform data management for various research studies in the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies. Provides administrative and program support to the Project Director, Principal Investigator, faculty, and other professional staff. There is opportunity to co-author publications. Research projects include: (1) identifying, quantifying, and describing promotional practices of companies across various industries and determining how such practices affect offline health-related behaviors; (2) examining user experiences with popular new tobacco products to understand their appeal, and the social and environmental characteristics surrounding their use; (3) identifying the extent of unsubstantiated health claims (or misinformation) pertaining to substances like nicotine, cannabis, and products like electronic cigarettes.
Duties will include:
Assist in developing codebook for content analysis.
Apply code book in content analysis with image-based and/or audio-visual based, and/or text-based data.
Review and edit data to ensure completeness and accuracy of information.
Position Status
Part Time
Hours Per Week
Daily Work Shift
Day
Work Arrangement
FLSA
Nonexempt
Grade
99H
Position Salary
$18-20 hr depending on experience
Annual Minimum Salary
Annual Mid Range Salary
Annual Maximum Salary
Standard Hours
35.00
Union Description
Non-Union
Payroll Designation
PeopleSoft
Benefits
Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Rutgers also offers a benefit program to eligible full-time postdoctoral fellow students. For details, please go to https://finance.rutgers.edu/healthcare-risk/insurance/postdoctoral-health-insurance.
Seniority Unit
Terms of Appointment
Temporary Staff Appointment – Hourly
Position Pension Eligibility
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Title: Student Assistant
Company: Rutgers University
Location: New Brunswick, NJ
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