Graduate Research Assistant Jobs in Highlands Ranch, CO

The Department of Psychology at the University of Denver is research-oriented, valuing a collaborative and integrative approach to psychological science that fosters intellectual curiosity and innovation and invests in people in a supportive and inclusive environment. Our mission is to advance psychological science by generating and sharing new knowledge through collaborative scholarship, educating and mentoring student scholars, and contributing to the public good.

The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Psychology department are strongly committed to building an inclusive educational environment, which is in full accord with the value that DU places on its commitments to inclusion. Candidates must demonstrate ability to integrate content and issues relating to, and to work effectively with, various populations. The University of Denver endeavors to be a great university dedicated to the public good and to uphold the values of inclusion, and justice. The University recognizes that its success is dependent on how well it lives these values, including how we engage, support, and champion members both at DU and in the greater community. DU is situated in the Denver metro area, a vibrant urban center in the Rocky Mountain region, home to more than 3 million people. Our metropolitan location supports collaboration across local universities. DU is comprised of 6000+ undergraduates (700+ psychology majors), 7000+ graduate students (50+ Psychology graduate students), and 700+ full-time faculty.  The University recently received recognition as an R1 by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Position Summary

We are looking for two full-time Research Assistants. Each Research Assistant will assist with two grant-funded research project investigating the development and treatment of anxiety in youth. This research is timely given that there is increasing recognition about the importance of mental health in youth, and that anxiety is the most common mental health problem across development, and most typically onsets during the pediatric period. One clinical trial focuses on comparing two cognitive interventions - one computerized targeting interpretation bias in youth anxiety, and the other a group behavior therapy study for youth with anxiety and co-occurring learning difficulties. Specific duties include recruiting and scheduling participants, making phone calls, assisting with research study visits, collection of cognitive, psychophysiological, and mental health data, managing graduate and undergraduate student teams, participating as a co-facilitator of group therapy sessions, project management, data management, IRB and clinical trials documentation and management, and community outreach to recruit participants and disseminate results. There may also be opportunities to train in semi-structured diagnostic interviewing and the conduct of cognitive therapy skills for youth, as well as to participate in manuscript writing and publication efforts.

Research Assistants will work very closely with other project staff and participants and therefore must have excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. The projects are conducted in the Brave Lab (https://liberalarts.du.edu/psychology/brave) at the University of Denver.  Given the number of projects and participants involved, Research Assistants must have excellent organizational and management skills. In addition, the research assistant will have the opportunity to substantially contribute to these research projects, including over time developing research questions to answer; the depth and breadth of this involvement will be in accordance with the employee's long-term career goals and skills.

This is a full-time, in-person position (i.e., 40 hours per week) that comes with DU's full benefits package, and the funding for this position is contingent on grant funding. The schedule requires daytime hours, including some late afternoon and early evening availability to accommodate participant visits after school, as well as occasional weekend availability to accommodate participant study visits.

Essential Functions

Under the direct supervision of the Principal Investigator (Michelle Rozenman), research assistants will assist with these primary responsibilities: 

• Project management of two research projects: one clinical trial comparing two cognitive interventions with anxious youth, and another that will test a new group intervention for children with anxiety and learning disabilities. The research assistants will assist with coordinating data collection including identifying eligible participants, developing workflows to communicate with eligible participants and tracking participation over time, longitudinal follow-up of participants, prioritizing and managing multiple tasks across the two projects, and management of IRB protocols and clinical trials protocols.
• Working with human subjects that include youth and consenting caregivers: data collection of cognitive, psychophysiological, and mental health data (tasks and questionnaires) from children and caregivers both in-person and remotely; recruitment, screening, scheduling of participant appointments via phone, email, text communications as preferred by the family; behavioral management and support during research visits; interacting with families to support research goals and successful research visits. A successful research assistant will demonstrate the requisite interpersonal and data collection skills to ultimately be trained as a co-facilitator of the group-based intervention for youth with anxiety and learning disorders, and may even learn over time to conduct semi-structured diagnostic interviews and/or serve as a cognitive therapy facilitator in the cognitive intervention trial.
• Team Management: Engage collaboratively with and coordinate a team of graduate and undergraduate students working on the research project including communicating and coordinating study visits, establishing workflows beginning with recruitment and ending with completion of study visits; participation as a member of the research team; various meetings with study team members and investigators; assisting with interviewing of new team members.
• Administration: Preparation of subject data, assisting with data entry, data back-up, photocopies, filing, etc.
• Other: A small number of other duties may also be assigned that are relevant to the lab's work including, but not limited to, tasks such as literature searches, helping data preparation for NIH reports and manuscript submissions, attending recruitment or other community events with the PI, etc.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong ability to manage personnel teams
• Strong organizational skills related to delegating project tasks, scheduling, and managing multiple research priorities

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Psychology or related field
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills including strong note-taking skills during meetings to successfully complete tasks
• Detailed-approach to tasks and ability to follow very specific research protocols
• Strong organization and detail-oriented administrative skills to include scheduling, data/file management, word processing (MS Word), spreadsheets (Excel), copying, phone skills and data entry, following protocols
• Critical thinking skills along with the ability to identify, discuss, and solve problems and issues that may arise
• English proficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience coordinating research projects
• Experience in research with youth
• Strong interpersonal skills for in-person and telephone interactions with staff and prospective participants/parents
• Prior experience in research or clinical settings with youth with neurodevelopmental and/or mental health symptoms
• Prior or current participation in a research lab where duties involved active engagement in the research process with human subjects (e.g., running experiments with participants, recruiting participants for a study, and/or managing a dataset)
• Master's degree in Counseling, Education, Psychology or related field
• Interest in staying with the project for two years. While a two year commitment is not required, this position requires a significant amount of training and a two year commitment (grant funding dependent) is preferred.

Working Environment

• Standard office environment.
• Noise level is quiet to moderate.

Physical Activities

• Ability to work in front of a computer for an extended period.
• Occasionally required to move about the office/campus with the capability of transporting objects up to 20 lbs.

Work Schedule

The schedule requires daytime hours, including some late afternoon and early evening availability to accommodate participant visits after school, as well as occasional weekend availability to accommodate participant study visits. The schedule is 40 hours per week.

Application Deadline

For consideration, please submit your application materials by 4:00pm (MST), August 10, 2026.

Special Instructions

Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Please do not contact Dr. Rozenman directly, as she will not reply. Only applications submitted online through the DU Jobs portal will be accepted.

Salary Grade Number:

The salary grade for the position is 7.

Hourly Range

The hourly range for this position is $22.04-$25.00.

The University of Denver has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The University may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate's sex or any other protected status.

Benefits:

The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference. Learn more about the University of Denver.

Please include the following documents with your application:

1. Cover letter (one page)
2. Resume or curriculum vitae
3. Contact information for two references: Please provide two references who can speak to the applicant's research and organization skills. References will be checked.

The University of Denver is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), marital, family, or parental status, pregnancy or related conditions, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. The University of Denver does not discriminate and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex (including sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), marital family, and parental status, pregnancy, genetic information, military enlistment, or veteran status, and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance in any of the University's educational programs and activities, and in the employment (including application for employment) and admissions (including application for admission) context, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; the Americans with Disabilities Act; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Equal Pay Act; the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; the Colorado Protecting Opportunities and Worker's Rights ("POWR") Act; and any other federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances that prohibit discrimination, harassment, and/or retaliation. For more information, please see the University of Denver's NonDiscriminationStatement.

All offers of employment are based upon satisfactory completion of a criminal history and National Sex Offender Registry background check.

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