Sample
Job Titles and Classifications
Principal
Investigator | Research
Methodologist & Analyst | Project
Manager | Research
Assistant
The following
position titles are sample classifications for academic employees
of the Center for Public Health Studies.
All positions include the following requirements and abilities:
• Ability to take initiative when appropriate
• Ability to work as part of a diverse team
• Ability to plan and organize work
• Maintain skills appropriate to the scope of the work
• Uphold the highest professional standards, ethics and values.
___________________________________________________________
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigators shall have the following primary responsibilities:
• Budget oversight
• Overall conceptual leadership of research
• Overall conceptual leadership for creation, negotiation and
oversight of budget
• Ensure ethical conduct of project activities
• Meet relevant legal procedures and requirements
• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Achieve project goals and ensure research integrity, including:
design and implementation of research and interpretation and dissemination
of findings.
• Follow personnel procedures and address personnel issues
• Responsibility for ongoing performance evaluations of all project
staff
• Coordinate supervision activities May directly supervise relevant
staff
___________________________________________________________
Research Methodologist and Analyst
Research Methodologists and Analysts shall have the following primary
responsibilities:
• Plan and execute data analysis
• Assume primary responsibility for research design and methodology
• Participate in interpretation of results
• Provide guidance and consultation concerning data collection
procedures
• Participate in writing reports and articles
• May provide consultation across projects concerning methodology
• May present technical aspects of projects to funding sources
___________________________________________________________
Project Manager
Project Managers shall have the following primary responsibilities:
• Supervise relevant staff
• Provide training
• Author and/or co-author reports and articles
• Provide day-to-day budget management and monitoring
• Provide day-to-day overall coordination
• Design and coordinate data management
• Develop interview schedules and collection procedures
• Coordinate data analysis
• Coordinate recruitment and hiring
• Participate in budget development
___________________________________________________________
Research Assistant
Research Assistants shall have the following primary responsibilities:
• Collect and enter data
• Participate in development of data collection procedures
• Maintain data management systems
• Participate in data analysis
• Participate in literature reviews
• Participate in project writing and other dissemination of findings
• Provide feedback from the field
• Maintain relationships with the community
• Involvement
in training activities
Center
for Public Health Studies
Portland State University
503.725.9095
PO Box 751
506 SW Mill, Suite 450
Portland, Oregon 97207