Community Engagement Associate: Project Salud Research Support

Seasonal role: 1/06/24-5/15/2025 

Estimated pay: $14.00 per hour  

Company division: Institute for Engaged Learning  

Location type: On-site  

Academic year up to 10 hours per week  

Number of positions available: 1 

Role Description  

DUE is home to IEL which is sponsoring these types of positions across campus. This specific position is part of the Community Engagement Associates program in which students work in a specific department on campus to support campus and community engagement initiatives. You will see more information on the specific job and department below.  

Department Sponsor:  

School of Medicine 

Department of Pediatrics          

Research Support CEA  

The Community Engaged Research Support CEA works directly with a faculty or staff mentor to support the creation, expansion, or deepening of a community engagement project or program not connected to a specific course. In a research support role, employees are expected to operate with a high level of autonomy and self-direction to exercise judgement and decision making during their research responsibilities. Work may include but is not limited to: communicating research findings both written and orally, assisting with data collection and data analysis, assessing community needs or social issues, and applying developed research instrument and protocols based on project parameters.  

Project Summary and Goals:  

The overall role will be to work with Dr. Guerrero to complete any remaining interviews and then integrate findings from survey data and interviews and dissemination them with local partners and national researchers. The CEA will help to prepare an abstract for a local or national conference. If there are opportunities to interview, the CEA will invite participants to interview via phone or email. The CEA will receive training presenting elements of consent and in interviewing. It will be their responsibility to arrange a mutual meeting time and public location, share a Zoom invitation if an in-person interview is not able to be arranged, seek participants' consent to participate, record the interview, and then utilize the interview guide to ask questions and probe. Following the interview, the CEA will complete a detailed field note that will include assessing preliminary findings. After the transcription of interviews is complete, the CEA will review interviews and work with Dr. Guerrero to create a codebook based on participants’ responses. They will then perform a thematic analysis of the interviews, noting patterns, and important quotes in the interview transcripts, and then will summarize the key themes. 

Positions, Duties, and Tasks:  

This work would likely fit best for a CEA interested in health disparities, mental health, or community-based research, and who has a foundational understanding of key concepts and frameworks of public health, psychology, sociology, or a related field. Proficiency in the Spanish language would be beneficial, as some interview participants are likely to prefer Spanish. However, this is not a requirement. Through these roles the CEA will develop each of their Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success: Communicator, Problem Solver, Innovator, and Community Contributor. 

Learning objectives:  

In accordance with the IUI Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success, experience in CEA positions will help students meet the learning outcomes below and become acquainted with the following profiles:  

Communicator  

• Convey ideas effectively and ethically in oral, written, and visual forms across public, private, interpersonal, and team settings, using face-to-face and mediated channels  
• Describe the value of being involved in service or other forms of community engagement  

Community contributor  

• Identify community or social issues that need to be addressed  
• Demonstrate evidence of respectful engagement with their own and other communities and cultures  

Problem solver  

• Make connections among ideas and experiences  

Availability needed for the CEA(s) schedule:  

Relatively flexibility based on CEA availability, often off campus (work from home or within the community) from 8:00 AM-8:00 PM in 2 hour time blocks generally.