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Project Director

Job Number Full/Part Time Schedule Salary
202002052362 Full Time 8AM - 5PM $73,038 - $117,554

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The Childhood Cognition Lab (www.ccl.ucr.edu) at the University of California, Riverside is inviting applications for a Full-Time Project Manager position to join the Developing Belief Network (Project Directors: Rebekah Richert and Kathleen Corriveau). A 5-year John Templeton Foundation grant funds the development of a research initiative designed to bring together a network of scholars interested in cross-cultural study of the development of religious cognition and behavior. This Project Manager will have the exciting opportunity to work with an international network of scholars to build a collaborative research methodology, which will involve training in cross-cultural validation of measures and collection of an expansive and global data set on the development of supernatural beliefs in the first 10 years of life. The Project Manager will be an active member of a team, working collaboratively with PIs Richert and Corriveau, with a post-doc and Research Scientist at Boston University and with representatives from Databrary. The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating communication between the PIs and the research sites, facilitating the development of a collaborative methodology, developing a training plan for data collection at all research sites, tracking progress to ensure the project remains on time, overseeing the budget, and coordinating reporting. This position is a 5-year position with possibility of renewal if more funding is secured.

Minimum Requirements

-PhD in Psychology or a related discipline;
-Experience coordinating a project that involves multiple individuals with varying levels of expertise;
- Experience managing a large research budget and financial reporting;
-Excellent written communication skills;
-Experience working with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds;
-Proficiency with statistical analysis
-Specialization in developmental psychology and/or cross-cultural research

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds
Fluency in Spanish
Proficiency with statistical analysis

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In the Heart of Inland Southern California, UC Riverside is located on nearly 1,200 acres near Box Springs Mountain in Southern California; the park-like campus provides convenient access to the vibrant and growing Inland region. The campus is a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities' air, water, energy, transportation, politics, the arts, history, and culture. UCR gives every student, faculty and staff member the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.

UC Riverside is recognized as one of the most ethnically diverse research universities in the country boasting several key rankings of which we are extremely proud.

  • UC Riverside was included in the (August 2018) edition of The Princeton Review's "The Best 382 Colleges."

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (August 2017) Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UC Riverside among the top 151 institutions. This survey bills itself as "the most trustworthy precursor of global rankings of the world's top 500 universities."

  • In 2016, UCR was recognized for graduation rate success by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) for achieving near parity across racial-ethnic, socio-economic, and gender boundaries.

  • UCR ranks among the Top 15 Public Research Universities in the nation, as identified by the 2017 Washington Monthly.

  • In 2017, two separate reports from the Education Trust celebrated UCR as a national leader for African American and Latino student success. UCR was one of just three schools to be named top-performing institutions in both reports and the only California campus recognized among 18 top-performing colleges and universities in the nation for high black student graduation rates.


The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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