Social Science/Humanities Research Associate II
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The Social Science/Humanities Research Associate II coordinates study operations, data workflows, compliance, and team processes. The role supports participant recruitment and assessments, maintains research infrastructure and regulatory documentation, supervises and trains undergraduate research assistants, and contributes to manuscripts, conference presentations, and grant materials.
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Full job description
Coordinate day-to-day study operations, including participant recruitment and screening, onboarding participants into online intervention arms, scheduling and conducting study visits, reserving study space and resources, administering diagnostic clinical interviews, conducting psychophysiological assessments such as eye-tracking, and troubleshooting participant-facing technical issues related to study participation.Manage study data, technical workflows, and research infrastructure, including overseeing data collection procedures, maintaining study documentation and protocols, monitoring data quality, preparing datasets for analysis, and providing technical support related to study dashboards, APIs, scripts, and other data systems.Coordinate research communication, compliance, and team processes, including facilitating study meetings related to recruitment/advertising, interrater reliability, and clinical supervision, and maintaining regulatory documentation and submissions for IRB and NIH requirements.Supervise and train undergraduate research assistants, including oversight of participant tracking, data entry, and other study support activities, as well as mentoring students in research methods, data management, and foundational computational skills.Contribute to scholarly and grant-related products, including assistance with scientific manuscripts, conference presentations, and grant materials.Other duties as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,097 open Research Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$69–90K/yr323 salary ranges
- US median$26–31/hr174 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 187 open Research Associate jobs in Texas and 1,097 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)104 open
- Texas A&M University System33 open
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON13 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 (276 postings).
- Education
- 618 of the 1,097 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 3, 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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