Thanks to Laura Morales

Deadline: 19 June 2014


Research Assistant (RA) job in ResponsiveGov and Localmultidem projects


Dear colleagues,

This is a call for applications for a Research Assistant position at the
University of Leicester to contribute to data collection and data management in
relation to the ResponsiveGov (http://www.responsivegov.eu/) and
Localmultidem (http://www.um.es/localmultidem/) projects that I coordinate.

Kind regards,

Laura Morales

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Research Assistant (0.8FTE)

College of Social Science

Department of Politics and International Relations

Salary Grade 6 - £25,759 to £29,837per annum, **pro rata**

Fixed term contract for 12 months

Ref: SSC00523
We are advertising an 0.8 FTE (4 days/week) RA job to support Prof Laura
Morales with research relating to two projects. Approximately 18
hours/week will be devoted to work in supporting data collection and
management for the European Research Council-funded project
ResponsiveGov, and the remaining 12 hours/week will be devoted to data
cleaning, data management and documentation relating to the now
completed FP6 project Localmultidem.

The post-holder will be expected to be based at the University of
Leicester and come to the office at least 3 days per week. Working
remotely from a different location will not be possible. The appointed
RA will be expected to start on 1^st September 2014.

Essential Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience and Skills include:

- A postgraduate degree in any of the social sciences, with preference
given to degrees in Politics or Sociology and with a substantive or
methodological focus relevant to any of the two projects. European
degrees directly giving access to a PhD programme in their home
university system will be regarded as equivalent to an MA/MSc/MRes for
the purposes of this job application.
- Prior research experience, ideally in externally funded projects.
- Training in social science research methods and in quantitative
techniques at postgraduate level.
- Considerable and demonstrable experience of data management with SPSS
or Stata.
- Proven ability of social science data input, management and analysis
with SPSS, Stata or R.

All essential requirements are detailed here, please read carefully
before applying:

http://www.le.ac.uk/jobs/external/SSC00523_Further_Particulars.pdf

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Applications

For further information and to apply on-line, please
visit:*http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIU642/research-assistant*

*Applications should include: *

-A cover letter specifying how you meet the essential and desirable
requirements of the post.

-An updated CV.**

-A single-authored writing sample that demonstrates your quantitative
analysis skills (e.g. an MSc dissertation, a PhD dissertation chapter,
an article, a conference paper, etc.).**

*The closing date for this post is midnight on 19th June.*

*We anticipate that interviews will take place on the week commencing
30^th June.*

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