Research Scientist - Youth Mental Health
Research Scientist - Youth Mental Health
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Job Title: Research Scientist Youth Mental Health
Job Location: Washington DC USA
Job Location Type: Remote
Job Contract Type: Fulltime
Job Seniority Level: MidSenior level
Department: Research and Development
Location: Remote US Based Role
Compensation: $112000 $127000 / year
Description
We are looking for an experienced researcher who will initially be dedicated to a highprofile multiyear project to create a publicfacing US Youth Mental Health Tracker in an equityforward manner. This is a hugely ambitious and impactful project alongside major partners (Pivotal Ventures MTV) that will change how mental health is monitored and tracked in the US. As one of our research scientists on this project you'll work on designing largescale data collection methods including surveys analyze survey and geospatial data on drivers of mental health and innovate in how we analyze and report youth mental health data to the public and others who need to act on the poor state of youth mental health. This is the right role for you if you are passionate about using advanced analytics and healthcarerelated data to deliver impactful insights.
What you’ll achieve:
We don't expect you to have every single qualification but this is our wishlist:
Benefits
Our hiring philosophy
We hire for passion and core competencies.
We look for problemsolvers and lateral thinkers.
We love it if you have done different things with your time.
If you think you are ideal for this position write to us even if your experience doesn't match all the requirements listed above.
Equal Opportunity and Diversity Policy
Surgo believes a diverse inclusive staff makes a stronger team and more impactful organization and we are committed to building and developing this team and environment. Qualified people of all races ethnicities cultures ages sex genders sexual orientation gender identities and expressions languages social class marital status religions veterans status and disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Location: Remote US Based Role
Compensation: $112000 $127000 / year
Description
We are looking for an experienced researcher who will initially be dedicated to a highprofile multiyear project to create a publicfacing US Youth Mental Health Tracker in an equityforward manner. This is a hugely ambitious and impactful project alongside major partners (Pivotal Ventures MTV) that will change how mental health is monitored and tracked in the US. As one of our research scientists on this project you'll work on designing largescale data collection methods including surveys analyze survey and geospatial data on drivers of mental health and innovate in how we analyze and report youth mental health data to the public and others who need to act on the poor state of youth mental health. This is the right role for you if you are passionate about using advanced analytics and healthcarerelated data to deliver impactful insights.
What you’ll achieve:
- Deliver on a wide range of research activities literature review survey instrument development development of novel data sources identifying and using existing data extracting insights from hyperlocal contextual data compiling reports and slide decks analysis and data pipelines to put in place a multiyear US youth mental health tracker in an equityforward manner.
- Innovate how we think about and collect youth mental health data using new methodologies analytical technologies and data sources
- Lead the project's Youth Advisory Board and collaborate with external subject matter experts
- Deliver data processing and analytical pipelines that transform raw data (e.g. survey geo) into highquality internal data assets and client deliverables
- Delight the public and clients with highquality statistical analysis valuable insights and strong data visualizations
- Foster organizational growth with mentoring and support your colleagues' professional development
We don't expect you to have every single qualification but this is our wishlist:
- A PhD or equivalent with 5 years handson endtoend quantitative research experience preferably in youth mental health
- Advanced competence in R (we also use Git and AWS)
- Survey design experience
- Strong command of statistical concepts and skills (e.g. linear/logistic regression feature selection machine learning)
- Awareness of the ethics of doing research on mental health in youth
- Desire to work in a fastpaced startup environment amidst uncertainty where you can have an outsized impact on our success
- Desire to learn new skills beyond your area of expertise
- Excellent publicfacing and scientific communication skills in English both written and verbal
Benefits
- Fantastic fun and collaborative colleagues; opportunity to solve tough challenges in healthcare
- Ability to be entrepreneurial and tremendous opportunities for growth
- Public Benefit Corporation with an impact and equity mission
- Competitive compensation and health benefits
- Generous PTO 10 holidays
- Highly competitive 401K
- 3 months paid parental leave
- Professional Development opportunities
Our hiring philosophy
We hire for passion and core competencies.
We look for problemsolvers and lateral thinkers.
We love it if you have done different things with your time.
If you think you are ideal for this position write to us even if your experience doesn't match all the requirements listed above.
Equal Opportunity and Diversity Policy
Surgo believes a diverse inclusive staff makes a stronger team and more impactful organization and we are committed to building and developing this team and environment. Qualified people of all races ethnicities cultures ages sex genders sexual orientation gender identities and expressions languages social class marital status religions veterans status and disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
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