Field Interviewer - Part-time at RTI International in Lansing, Michigan

Job Description:

The pay rate for this part time position is $21/hour. Hourly wage is based on experience and geographical location.

• Flexible work schedule


• Access to an employee discount program


• Reimbursable travel time and mileage


• RTI International Field Interviewers also get the opportunity to make a difference in their local community as well as an opportunity to work for a company named by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces 2023!

Field Interviewers are responsible for:

• Traveling frequently to selected locations to recruit study participants


• Making in-person contact with selected respondents to discuss the study, answer questions, and obtain participation


• Collecting confidential information and administering standardized questionnaires


• Communicating regularly with project team and local program staff to identify and conduct program evaluation activities throughout the data collection cycle


• Monitoring local program recruitment progress for new cohorts, contacting potential study participants by phone, virtual meetings, or in-person


• As needed, conduct in-person recruitment at local program recruitment events


• Supporting survey participation through in-person field data collection


• Completing participant recruitment and data collection using project provided tablet


• Contacting participants and providing reminders for follow up surveys


• Accurately documenting all activity and interactions with study participants throughout all phases of study participation


• Independently managing administrative duties, including participating in conference calls and completing online trainings


• Transmitting data as scheduled


• Assuming full and legal responsibility for use and care of project-issued equipment


• Safeguarding any participant incentives, issued equipment, or project materials against damage, loss, or theft


• Assuming responsibility for and carefully tracking all participant incentives


• Submitting timely and accurate Time & Expense reports


• Virtually attend scheduled meetings with other members of the project team


• Administering a screening interview and recruiting respondents for a longer main interview, if selected


• Maintaining regular access to a reliable wireless internet connection in your home for project work


• Meeting weekly with supervisor via Zoom

RTI International is seeking part-time field interviewers on the Empowering Young Parents Study (EYS).

The Empowering Young Parents: Building Healthy Relationships (EYP) Study will evaluate Safe Dates for Young Parents (SDYP), a healthy relationship and intimate partner violence prevention program that focuses on pregnant or parenting adolescents and young adults assigned female sex at birth between the ages of 14 and 21. The EYP study will assess the effectiveness of the SDYP program in addressing unintended teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections by reducing behavioral risks and promoting healthy relationships. Participants will be randomized (1:1) into the SDYP intervention or a control group receiving services as usual. All study participants will complete baseline, 6-month, and 12-month follow-up surveys.

This program, SDYP, is offered yearly in different locations across the US. We are seeking an interviewer to support local field data collection across four sites located in Detroit, Benton Harbor, Lansing, and Saginaw, MI. Throughout the life of the study, the Michigan field data collector will reach out to a minimum of 200 adolescents and young adults for participation in each of the study surveys.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Must be at least 21 years old at the time of employment


• Must possess High School Diploma or GED


• Possess effective communication skills through speech and listening


• Fluency in English through reading, writing, and speaking


• Available for entire training and data collection period


• Able to successfully complete training


• Must have a valid driver's license and reliable personal automobile available for business use


• Comfortable using RTI issued tablet, laptop and other associated equipment


• Access to password-protected Wi-Fi connection for data transmissions and administrative responsibilities


• Able to keep project information confidential


• Willingness to work in various types of weather conditions and after dark


• Able to travel overnight within Michigan (Saginaw, Benton Harbor, Detroit, and Lansing), as needed to non-local Safe Dates for Young Parents (SDYP) programs requiring evening data collection

Preferred Qualifications for Ideal Candidates

• Prior experience working with young adults


• Prior experience working in the field of violence prevention and child and family well-being


• Prior data collection experience


• Flexible availability, including occasional evening and weekends conducting in-person recruitment at local program recruitment events as scheduled


• Ability to facilitate survey participation when study participants are available


• Positive, self-motivated, curious, and enjoy interacting with people from culturally-diverse backgrounds


• Effective time, schedule, and workload management skills to meet set deadlines


• Computer skills, namely email and internet proficiency


• Be comfortable working in unfamiliar areas

• The data collection period is expected to be September, 2024 through August, 2027
  


• On average, you will be needed part-time approximately 10 hours per week when work is available


• On average, you should be available to work in the field 3 days each week


• The majority of this work is anticipated to be during weekdays during daytime hours
  


• Each of your trips to the field are expected to be at least 2 hours long

Field Interviewers are required to complete trainings which include:

• Attend up to four 2-hour virtual project trainings scheduled during the week of September 6, 2024
  


• Successfully complete additional virtual trainings, as assigned, prior to start of project specific trainings


• Successfully pass project required trainings


• Attendance at all trainings is mandatory

Travel within Michigan (Lansing, Detroit, Benton Harbor, Saginaw)RTI International will accommodate our job application procedures for disabled veterans and other qualified individuals with disabilities.
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RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Clients rely on us to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach--one that integrates expertise across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering, and international development. We believe in the promise of science, and we are inspired every day to deliver on that promise for the good of people, communities, and businesses around the world. For more information, visit www.rti.org.

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