Academic Wage-Hourly: Faculty Research Assistant

Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR

Part-time,Full-time - Entry Level

Onsite - Corvallis, OR

Educational Services

About the position

The Faculty Research Assistant position at Oregon State University is a temporary, part-time role focused on data gathering and analysis in the field of dual language bilingual education. The role involves recruiting bilingual participants, managing bilingual data, and disseminating findings in both Spanish and English. This position is designed to support a research team in addressing the shortage of bilingual teachers in Oregon schools and aims to publish culturally sustaining practices in bilingual education.

Responsibilities

• Identify, recruit, and interview bilingual educators who meet participant criteria of the study.
• Ensure data is transcribed, cleaned, de-identified, and systematically stored in password protected digital files.
• Engage in individual and team-oriented rounds of data analysis, data interpretation, and drawing conclusions from the data collected.
• Contribute to co-authored academic manuscripts and participate in conference presentations that are culturally inclusive for a broad and diverse audience.
• Engage in weekly remote research team meetings.

Requirements

• Masters in Education, Spanish, Sociology, or related field.
• Spanish-English bilingual.
• Experience recruiting bilingual participants for qualitative research.
• Experience employing qualitative research methods with bilingual participants.
• Experience managing qualitative data.
• Experience using qualitative data management system for data analysis.
• Experience analyzing and writing-up qualitative data.
• Experience writing academic manuscripts for publication.
• Ability to describe gaps and biases in existing research in the field.

Nice-to-haves

• PhD in Education, Spanish, Sociology, or related field.
• Experience working in a collaborative setting.
• Knowledge of critical theoretical frameworks.
• Knowledge of bilingual education policy in the US.
• Knowledge of bilingual teacher education practices.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Paid holidays
• Vision insurance