Who is a Research Associate ?
Research Assistants/Associates are Academic Student Employees (ASEs) hired by faculty to assist in carrying out a particular research agenda. A research associate typically works within a research department of an investment bank or asset management firm to provide helpful data to the decision-makers who buy and sell securities for the firm.
What does a Research Associate do?
A Research Associate is responsible for planning, organizing, and conducting research on the economy, investments, markets, or businesses. They typically work for consulting firms, financial institutions, asset firms, and in-house research departments of organizations. Depending on the structure of an organization, a Research Associate may be at the same level or below a Research Analyst and at the same level or above a Research Assistant.
Job brief
Our team needs an excellent research associate to come on board and help with several projects that are currently in development. You’ll oversee test creation and execution within our state-of-the-art facilities, and then coordinate your findings with our top-notch and friendly researchers. Our company is small, but our goals are big, and you’ll be joining at an exciting time as we take important steps forward within this field.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepare findings and update databases to include newfound information, and create a summary of that analysis to pass on to the project director
- Assist other researchers with various tasks, including data entry, sample care and storage, field research, statistical analysis, and presentation preparation
- Verify numerical data in both digital and written form, ensuring that any errors that may occur during transcription are eliminated
- Create research summaries in multiple formats, including spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, graphs and standard, written summaries
- Handle necessary administrative paperwork and other documentation needed for project validation and research quality control
- Perform internet searches to gather relevant information, and record any findings in a manner pursuant to facility protocol
- Plan schedule according to a variety of methods to be used, availability and quantity of resources, and a number of subordinate personnel assigned to participate in the project.
- Conduct research, utilizing institution library, archives, and collections, and other sources of information, to collect, record, analyze, and evaluate facts.
- Discuss findings with other personnel to evaluate the validity of findings.
- Prepare reports of completed projects for publication in technical journals, for presentation to the agency requesting project, or for use in further applied or theoretical research activities.
Key requirements
- Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that is above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis
- High school diploma or equivalent; college degree preferred
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Critical thinking
- Technical skills
- Statistical and Graphical Analysis of Data
- Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards
- Planning and scheduling
- Interviewing
- Data Collection
