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Alicia
Title: Research Assistant
Position Overview:
The person in this seasonal (nine-month), part-time (29 hours per week)
research assistant position will work with a collaborative team that seeks
to understand the diverse relationships between plants and microbes through
data synthesis and data science methods. This project aims to provide
generalities on the ecological outcomes to contribute to plant restoration
and agricultural knowledge. The research assistant will primarily be
responsible for screening relevant literature on plant-microbe
relationships, extracting data from literature to contribute to a database,
and data visualization. This work is remote, but the research assistant
will be expected to report in-person once every three weeks if located
within a 20-mile radius of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s main campus in
Glencoe, Illinois. Meetings will be between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. CST during
the work week.
Responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for the following:
– Evaluate and filter literature that the team has previously gathered
– Extract and clean quantitative data from primary literature using R
tidyverse packages
– Extract and clean qualitative data from primary literature using
packages such as metaDigitise or juicr
– Visualize data using R
– Attend monthly team meetings
– Attend weekly Restoration and Conservation lab meetings
– Deliver team reports via PowerPoint every two months
– Meet weekly with supervisors and provide progress updates
– Employ reproducible data practices such as with GitHub
– Assist with developing a pipeline for automated or semi-automated
qualitative data extraction
– The research assistant may be asked to support with other similar NRR
trait synthesis projects
Chicago Botanic Garden Values & Behaviors:
VALUES
*As an organization, we prioritize a culture of GROWTH.
BEHAVIORS
*As an organization, w commit to remaining curious in how we approach our work.
– Create and maintain spaces for learning.
– Test new ideas and are willing to take risks to achieve our vision.
– Collaborate to strengthen our skills and impact.
– Demonstrate perseverance and humility as we work toward our long-term
impact.
Seek to UNDERSTAND.
We seek to understand others from their perspective.
– Provide opportunities for input and feedback from others.
– Actively listen to all points of view.
– Consider individual’s lived experiences.
– Advocate for and protect time for reflection especially during times
of conflict or confusion.
See one another through a lens of RESILIENCE.
We believe that all individuals can experience good outcomes with support.
– Give others the space to balance work and personal needs.
– Support others and demonstrate empathy especially during challenging
and stressful times.
– Seek opportunities to learn from and about one another.
– Ask questions about and anticipate the needs of others.
Build TRUST through TRANSPARENCY.
We hold ourselves and others accountable by centering decision making that
honors all people.
– Communicate information in a timely manner.
– Provide clarity in complex situations with the goal of common
understanding.
– Discuss both positive and negative outcomes openly.
– Evaluate the impacts of our actions.
Qualifications
Our ideal candidate will have the following:
– Three years of undergraduate experience
– Access to a computer and internet for virtual team meetings and data
collection
– Ability to perform repetitive computer-based tasks, including reading
and cleaning and processing large amounts of data from multiple sources
– Ability to work independently and collaboratively (experience on at
least one collaborative team)
– Ability to keep detailed and well-organized records
– Three years of R experience including creating functions, regex, and
using tidyverse packages including stringr and dplyr
– Two years of data manipulation experience
– One years of Excel experience
– One year experience reading scientific literature
– Experience in research summary and having conducted at least one
literature review, annotated bibliography, or synthesis
Physical Demands:
Office setting. Frequent sitting, looking at a computer screen, and
keyboard use. Use of office equipment including computers, and telephones,
copiers, and scanners.
Why Apply?
Come work in a setting that is like no other as you support our mission:
We cultivate the power of plants to sustain and enrich life. Take the first
step toward being one of the employees who make the Garden one of the
treasures of the Forest Preserves of Cook County. Apply today. Please note
that applicants who do not meet the required qualifications will not be
considered.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any
employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age,
national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a
veteran, or basis of disability, or any other federal, state, or local
protected class.
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general
nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this
classification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all
responsibilities and qualifications required of personnel so classified.
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