Lab Manager - UMass Amherst

The Brain, Cognition, and Development (BCD) Lab, headed by Dr. Lisa Scott at the University of Massachusetts Amherst anticipates hiring a full time Lab Manager to work on studies aimed at understanding the processes and previous experiences important for perceiving and recognizing faces and objects in infants and adults. The BCD lab uses longitudinal training designs and behavioral, electrophysiological (event--‐related potentials; ERPs), and eye--‐tracking methods, to elucidate the perceptual, cognitive, and social experiences that enhance or constrain face and object processing.

To learn more about our work please see our website: http://www.people.umass.edu/lscott/ If you are interested in this position please email your CV/resume to: Dr. Lisa Scott, Ph.D. lscott@psych.umass.edu

Full-­time Lab Manager Position:
Primary Duties include:
‐ Managing laboratory research projects, research budgets, and IRB protocols.
‐ Hiring, training, and supervising undergraduate research assistants.
‐ Coordinating lab events and meetings
‐ Creating stimuli, programming experiments, data processing/entry/analysis.
‐ Purchasing supplies and equipment and maintaining general laboratory equipment, computers, and networks.
‐ Maintaining a participant database, and recruiting/scheduling/testing infant and adult participants.

The Lab Manager will generally support Dr. Scott, graduate students, and post--‐doctoral fellows in the lab and will have the opportunity to be a collaborator in research that will be presented at major conferences and published in major journals. The start date is flexible but must be between October 1st 2011 and February 1st, 2012. The lab manager position requires a minimum 1.5--‐2--‐year commitment depending on start date.

Required Qualifications:
•- Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Linguistics or related field.
•- Previous research experience in a laboratory setting.
•- Six months experience working with infants/children/families.
•- Excellent computer skills and experience working with both mac’s and pc’s and a willingness to learn computer programming.
•- Excellent communication, interpersonal, leadership, multi--‐tasking and organizational skills.
•- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

Preferred Qualifications:
•- Programming experience and proficiency (E--‐prime (visual basic) and MATLAB).
•- Previous experience working with EEG/ERPs, preferably the EGI system.
•- Previous experience and proficiency using SPSS or R statistical packages.
•- Previous experience and proficiency using Adobe Photoshop, and Delta Graph.