Industrial Psychologist

Summary

AJANTA CONSULTING, LLC

Wright Patterson AFB, OH

THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON BID AWARD

The Industrial Psychologist shall provide professional, scientific, and technical support services for the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine’s (USAFSAM) Aeromedical Operational and Clinical Psychology Division (FESP) to create research apabilities. Specifically, this project seeks to evaluate the impact of Integrated Operational Support (IOS) services on biopsychosocial processes associated with optimal functioning for promoting resilience among Airmen and Guardians. Services shall include scientific research design, prfessioanl updates to the scientific literature, database management, data collection and statistical analysis, discussion of the results, composition of research technical reports, and generating and elivering professional presentations for academic conferences.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development and execution of a comprehensive study protocol, including hypothesis, methodologies, collection strategies, and overall statistical analysis of study data in consultation with USAFSAM/FESP professional staff
• Provide customer leadership a relevant scientific literature review and data analyses, as well as participate in related discussions with USAFSAM/FESP staff.
• Confer with and advise USAFSAM/FESP professional staff regarding optimal statistical approaches to analyze study data. The contractor employee shall perform statistical analyses of study data using descriptive and inferential statistical procedures.
• Minimize any threats to the validity of the statistical products or online data repositories, as well as maintain the data in a secure fashion consistent with IRB protocol and safeguards.
• Maintain confidentiality of screening data, contents of technical reports, and presentation of data deemed sensitive and not releasable to the general public.
• Complete the appropriate IRB paperwork and training requirements for conducting research.
• Prepare reports of scientific/statistical results in support of scientific literature publication, in coordination with USAFSAM/FESP and 711 HPW staff. The number of professional presentations, reports, and papers shall be verified based upon the relevance of research findings, as they become available.
• Work with USAFSAM/FESP personnel regarding personal limitations on travel scheduling.
• Maintain communications with project personnel that facilitate teamwork; adhere to strict confidentiality and classification requirements in all forms of communication.
• Be responsible for data management and coordinating process with project team members, which shall include acquisition, input, maintenance, electronic format products, and storage of all project data. The contractor employee shall assist staff in the collection of assessment data maintenance and downloading into the project database.
• Provide project operations support, to include assistance with USAFSAM/FES research activities and acquisition of data in support of project goals and objectives.
• Arrange, lead, oversee, and participate in research team meetings, (to include leading a weekly meeting) as needed, to ensure effective communication between research team members as related to the achievement of project research goals.
• If there is an unexpected interruption in research capabilities and/or reduction in workload, the contractor employee(s) shall support research endeavors in support of additional USAFSAM/FESP related investigations, as required.
• Other duties as assigned
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Research Psychology, ideally in fields of Industrial Organizational, or Applied Social Psychology.
• Doctoral Degree Research Psychology, ideally in fields of Industrial Organizational, or Applied Social psychology is preferred.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in database development, gathering and organizing data supporting analyses for a wide range of analytical procedures, research report writing, and developing actionable recommendations for improving human performance and behavioral science research.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience with developing products presenting research outcomes (e.g., statistical results and interpretations), to include professional presentations, peer-reviewed publications, and/or technical reports.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience designing and conducting statistical data analysis using software such as JMP, SPSS, R, etc.
  
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Extensive background in program evaluation, including designing, implementing, and analyzing data to assess program effectiveness preferred.
• Experience with human performance and behavioral science research within the Department of Defense (DoD) preferred.
• Experience developing and administering comprehensive, validated psychological instruments via mobile and web-based capabilities preferred.
• Experience presenting statistical results at peer-reviewed national forums (i.e., Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, American Psychological Association, Aerospace Medicine Association) preferred.
• Experience as an author of publications in peer-reviewed journals or official USAF/DoD technical reports in behavioral science with regards to human performance and behavioral science research preferred.
  
  
  

Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Expect to travel, as needed, to provide professional support, customer consultations, and research presentations at line leadership meetings and professional conferences
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
  
  
  

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