Pre-Doc Fellow
Boston, NH - USA
Job Summary
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
Summary:We are seeking a highly organized detail-oriented part-time research assistant to support scholarly educational and professional activities. The fellow will work closely with faculty to assist with preparation for speaking engagements development of slide decks and presentation materials and background research to support manuscript preparation. This position is well suited for an individual with strong writing research organizational and communication skills who is interested in academic medicine clinical neuropsychology psychology or a related field.
Qualifications
Key Responsibilities
- Speaking engagement preparation: Assist with planning and organizing materials for invited talks lectures workshops professional presentations and educational sessions.
- Slide preparation: Draft revise format and polish slide decks to ensure that content is clear visually organized audience-appropriate and aligned with presentation goals.
- Literature review and background research: Conduct targeted literature searches summarize relevant findings and identify current evidence clinical guidelines and key citations to support presentations and manuscripts.
- Manuscript support: Assist with preparation of scholarly manuscripts including organizing outlines drafting or revising sections compiling references checking citation accuracy and helping prepare materials for submission.
- Content synthesis: Translate research findings into concise summaries talking points presentation narratives tables or figures as needed.
- Project organization: Maintain organized files reference lists timelines drafts and version histories for ongoing presentation and writing projects.
- Collaboration and communication: Meet regularly with supervising faculty to review priorities receive feedback and ensure timely completion of assigned tasks.
- Bachelors Degree required. Candidates should be presently enrolled in doctoral degree program focused on psychology neuropsychology clinical psychology developmental psychology education neuroscience or a closely related field.
- Strong academic writing skills and experience reading summarizing and synthesizing scientific literature.
- Experience preparing professional presentations educational materials slide decks or manuscripts.
- Excellent attention to detail organization and time management.
- Ability to work independently while incorporating feedback from supervising faculty.
- Familiarity with APA style reference management tools and academic publication processes preferred.
- Interest or background in pediatric neuropsychology clinical neuropsychology learning and developmental disorders or related clinical populations preferred.
This is a 0.5 FTE part-time position. Specific schedule and distribution of hours will be determined in collaboration with the supervising faculty member and may include a combination of independent work scheduled check-ins and project-based deadlines.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
20.16 - 37.86 USD Hourly
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$20.16 - $29.01/HourlyGrade
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At Mass General Brigham our competency framework defines what effective leadership looks like by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance make hiring decisions identify development needs mobilize employees across our system and establish a strong talent pipeline.
About Company
Patients at Mass General have access to a vast network of physicians, nearly all of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty and many of whom are leaders within their fields.