POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ( Multiple Openings)

Rutgers University • Piscataway, NJ

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About The Position

The Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology ( GSAPP ) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, seeks to hire five Post-Doctoral Fellow to participate in a multiple state and site School Mental Health MTSS project funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ( SAMSHA ) grant – Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education). The Project aims to build school districts capacity for delivering comprehensive student mental health MTSS in collaboration with a research institution, school personnel, community-based providers of behavior health care services, community organizations, families, and youth. The project’s primary goals are to enhance school personnel MTSS implementation that maximizes the healthy social and emotional development of K-12 grader students and prevents youth violence in school districts. These positions are grant-funded positions that can begin immediately. Hires will be part of a highly supportive multidisciplinary research team focused on evaluating and studying the implementation and outcomes of MTSS school mental health components (e.g., screening, assessments, interventions and supports). These positions will report to Drs. Emily Graybill, Erum Nadeem and Linda Reddy and will assist in monitoring and evaluating district wide MTSS implementation. Post doctoral fellows will receive supportive mentorship and career development on executing (a) successful project implementation and evaluation, (b) human subjects protection and confidentiality procedures, © data management and analysis, (d) authoring peer-reviewed journal articles, (e) conference presentations and (f) grant proposals. The position will be filled by persons with excellent communication, interpersonal skills, data management, organizational, and research related skills.

Requirements

• excellent communication skills
• excellent interpersonal skills
• excellent data management skills
• excellent organizational skills
• excellent research related skills

Responsibilities

• assist in monitoring and evaluating district wide MTSS implementation
• executing successful project implementation and evaluation
• executing human subjects protection and confidentiality procedures
• executing data management and analysis
• authoring peer-reviewed journal articles
• conference presentations
• grant proposals

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees