The appointment is for a quarterly Subject Pool Lab TAship with the workload spread over three quarters. (This represents a commitment of roughly 3-4 hours per week during the entire academic year, though the workload may vary from week to week and quarter to quarter.)

Pay: student will receive a supplemental stipend each quarter for taking on this position

Responsibilities at end of Spring quarter:

• meet with current Subject Pool Lab TA and faculty supervisor to discuss the position, to discuss projects for the upcoming year, and to plan the transition between TAs

Responsibilities:

• maintaining the subscription to and administration of the web-based experiment-scheduling program
• lining up the instructors whose students will participate in the subject pool each quarter
• providing experimenters, instructors, and subjects with information about and access to the experiment-scheduling program; ensuring experimenters have the proper qualifications (i.e. IRB approval, CITI certification)
• giving occasional demos of the experiment-scheduling program to user groups
• running several video films as the designated alternatives to experiments
• maintain the subject pool pages on the department website
• gather required information each quarter from those conducting experiments under the department's blanket experimental protocol
• help the relevant faculty member with yearly submission to the IRB of the subject pool protocol

Qualifications:

• Previous experience with using the subject pool
• Meticulous organizational skills
• ability to work effectively one-on-one with students and faculty
• ability to work with the designated faculty supervisor and the Department manager
• in residence for the entire academic year