Job Description

No of Openings : 2

Closing Date for 1 Job Openings : Variable

Company Name : Monk Prayogshala (Sec 8)

Location : Mumbai Suburbs/ Remote

Compensation : Not Disclosed

Work Timings: 1 Opening for Indian Timings (5/6 day week depending on workload), 1 Opening for European/North American Timing (5/6 day week depending on workload)

Education: UG (BA/ BSc Psychology / Sociology / Economics / Anthropology), PG (MA/ MSc Psychology / Sociology / Economics / Anthropology) or in lieu of a degree 1-3 years of equivalent experience (Those currently pursuing a UG course are also eligible).

Experience : No experience required.

Age : 18-30 for all candidates

Functional Area : Areas in Psychology / Sociology / Economics / Public Policy/ Gender Studies (Basic and Applied).

Desired Candidate Profile :

• A minimum of 1 year of exposure to psychological/ Economic/ Sociological theories and concepts is a must.
• Should have good typing and academic writing skills and the ability to navigate search engines on the Internet.
• Should have prior exposure to compiling research literature, which entails reading academic papers and journal articles.
• Should have functional knowledge of basic theoretical principles and concepts in the social sciences.
• Should have excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Good communication skills with good command over written and spoken English and spoken Hindi, for communication in India and Internationally.
• Should be able to effectively communicate and coordinate with internal and external Research Authors, Research Assistants, and Research Interns for each research project.
• Keeping updated with current research.
• Should have reported to the Research Author and the Research Assistant.

NOTE : Candidates may mail links to their research paper portfolio or bring the same along on a pen drive.

:

• Preparing Literature Reviews and collecting research data.
• Providing inputs for designing experiments for multiple research projects.
• Capacity for coordinating multiple research projects.
• Deployment and monitoring automation of projects at various stages.
• Providing inputs for planning and architecting experiments for high availability, scalability and reliability.
• Capacity for reading and summarizing academic papers and journal articles.
• Should have intermediate or expert knowledge and functional experience with some or all of the following technologies:


+ Databases: Science Direct, Google Scholar, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Wiley, PsycINFO, DOAJ, openDOAR.
+ Statistics: SPSS, R.
+ Research Management: Mendeley, Zotero.