Research Associate
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Job overview
The Research Associate will assist with a five-year longitudinal study tracking alcohol tolerance among young adults from the onset of regular drinking. The study uses surveys and ecological momentary assessment. The role involves participant contact and follow-up, research questionnaires, data collection and verification, quality control, and general clinical research assistance. The position is grant funded.
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Full job description
We are seeking a Research Associate to assist in the execution of a 5-year longitudinal study with young adults. The purpose of this study is to track the development of alcohol tolerance over time from the onset of regular drinking using both survey and ecological momentary assessment. This position will involve contact with study participants, scheduling appointments, administering research questionnaires, follow-up of study participants, collecting, entering and verifying data, assisting in quality control procedures and general clinical research assistance.
This position is grant funded.
Responsibilities:
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Contact and schedule potential participants from a designated pool of individuals who have agreed to be contacted for research studies.
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Conduct subject searches to locate subjects who are unable to be contacted.
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Explain research protocol and obtain informed consent from participants.
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Conduct on-line and/or library searches as needed by the PI as necessary.
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Perform phone interviews for research project protocol(s) as needed.
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Maintain and update subject information database.
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Conduct interviews with research participants under supervision as needed.
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Bachelors Degree in psychology, neuroscience, counseling, sociology or related research field or current enrollment in a related Bachelor's Degree program with direct experience in a research environment required.
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Familiarity with computers and common software packages required
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Prior related work experience in a research setting preferred
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Working knowledge of research methodology strongly preferred
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- Act 34
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
How this job compares
Set against the 1,110 open Research Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–100K/yr382 salary ranges
- US median$18–20/hr125 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 71 open Research Associate jobs in Pennsylvania and 1,110 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- University of Pennsylvania39 open
- Carnegie Mellon University18 open
- University of Pittsburgh4 open
- Experience
- Research Associate postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (287 postings).
- Education
- 619 of the 1,110 open Research Associate jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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