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Job Description

SCHIZOPHRENIA & PSYCHOSIS ACTION ALLIANCE

The Organization
The Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance (S&PAA) is a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating barriers to treatment, survival, and meaningful recovery for individuals living with schizophrenia and psychosis spectrum disorders. This support can mean the difference between isolation and connection and can help individuals live independently to their fullest potential.

Summary:

The Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance (S&PAA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is seeking a dedicated part-time Research Assistant. Our research initiatives are aimed at improving care, reducing stigma, and promoting equity for individuals living with schizophrenia and psychosis. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful research and advocacy projects that center the voices of those with lived experience, caregivers, and communities disproportionately affected by schizophrenia.

The research assistant will support initiatives that:

• Prioritize the preferences and needs of individuals with schizophrenia and their caregivers in treatment development
• Explore strategies to increase access to high-quality care
• Investigate and better understand illness awareness
• Document the economic, societal, and humanistic impacts of schizophrenia

The research assistant will be directly supervised by Dr. Arundati Nagendra, Director of Research and Scientific Affairs at S&PAA.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct semi-structured interviews, literature reviews, develop and program surveys, and conduct qualitative and quantitative data analyses.
• Prepare, organize, and clean datasets
• Translate research findings for diverse audiences, including individuals with schizophrenia, caregivers, clinicians, and the public.
• Contribute to peer-reviewed manuscript preparation and have opportunities for co-authorship and presentations.
• Manage administrative tasks such as IRB applications and research documentation
• Participate in regular mentorship meetings to discuss professional development and career goals.

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's degree in neuroscience, psychology, public health, social work, or a related field. Master's degree or current enrollment in a graduate program is a plus.

Key skills, Knowledge and Personal Characteristics:

• Strong interest in schizophrenia research and advocacy.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in tools such as Microsoft Office, Excel, and reference management software (e.g., Zotero or EndNote). Familiarity with qualitative analysis software (e.g., NVivo, Dedoose) and statistical tools (e.g., SPSS, R) is a bonus.
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.

Key Competencies:

• Communication: Builds and maintains open, transparent and effective lines of communication, within and outside the Organization, to better serve others in all interactions; appropriately tailor written and verbal messages to target audiences.

• Teamwork: Builds and maintains positive working relationships, within and across individual work groups, through open communication and collaboration; works with others to accomplish goals and objectives.

• Service Excellence: Maintains focus on service excellence in all relationships with colleagues, collaborators, and those S&PAA serves; views all interactions as a potential opportunity for demonstrating S&PAA's focus on serving those affected by schizophrenia.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion/DE&I: Practices inclusion of those unique human qualities that are different from our own and outside the groups to which we belong; respects and values all people, nurtures open dialogue between those of differing perspectives; and empowers people to express themselves and show an appreciation of others. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at S&PAA includes in addition to the dimensions of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation, it also includes socioeconomic status, physical attributes and abilities; political, cultural, and intellectual ideologies and practices.

• Civility: Civility at S&PAA involves treating people with dignity, respect, and courtesy which involves efforts to understand differences and a general awareness of the rights, wishes, concerns and feelings of others. It involves speaking in ways that are respectful, responsible, restrained and principled, and avoiding that which is offensive, rude, demeaning or threatening.

Physical Requirements:

Must be able to utilize a phone, computer and screen and other office equipment. While performing the duties of the job, the employee is frequently required to sit; talk; or hear and occasionally stand, walk, reach, stoop, or kneel. Must be able to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.

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