Research Project Coordinator

Research Project Coordinator

The purpose of this position is to coordinate research project operations within NDC, with primary responsibility for the Deafverse Career Connections study. The position supports effective site engagement, participant coordination, data collection, implementation, documentation, and consistent research processes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of coordination for participating research sites and partners, maintaining relationships, coordinating communication and scheduling, supporting site readiness, and providing ongoing implementation support.
• Facilitate participant recruitment and study logistics, including recruitment and enrollment, consent and assent processes, scheduling, participant communication, incentives, accessibility needs, and related study activities.
• Facilitate data collection activities, working closely with research staff and GRAs to ensure data collection is timely, accessible, complete, and consistent with approved research protocols.
• Facilitate intervention and research implementation across participating sites, including facilitator preparation and support, implementation schedules, participation and dosage tracking, fidelity documentation, troubleshooting, and communication with project leadership.
• Support participatory research and stakeholder engagement activities, including co-design sessions, youth and stakeholder advisory activities, cognitive interviews, usability testing, and other approaches that incorporate deaf participants and community perspectives into research and development.
• Support development and refinement of research, intervention, and implementation materials, including facilitator resources, protocols, site guidance, data collection tools, and other materials needed to support consistent and accessible project implementation.
• Maintain project management and research documentation systems, including work plans, timelines, milestone tracking, site records, study documentation, procedures, and follow-up across the research team; identify operational risks and support consistent research workflows across NDC projects.
• Contribute to broader NDC research team activities, including research planning, documentation, accessibility, reporting, presentations, dissemination, and other project coordination needs as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education, social science, rehabilitation, psychology, public health, research administration, program coordination, or a related field.
• Three or more years of experience coordinating research studies, educational programs, intervention projects, or other complex multi-site activities.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating participants, sites, partners, or data collection activities.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously.
• Experience working with deaf people and deaf communities.
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with a multidisciplinary research team.
• Proficiency in American Sign Language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or advanced graduate studies.
• Five or more years of experience coordinating research studies, intervention development projects, or other complex research or program activities.
• Experience with human subjects research, participant recruitment, consent and assent procedures, data collection, or implementation research.
• Experience working with schools, vocational rehabilitation programs, transition programs, or youth-serving organizations.
• Familiarity with participatory research, co-design, mixed-methods research, implementation science, or intervention development.
• Experience coordinating accessible research activities with deaf youth.
• Familiarity with career development, transition, or employment-related programming.
• Experience working on a federally funded research project.

Salary Range

$65,000 - $75,000

Working Conditions

• Typical office environment

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest