Research Assistant

Company: Cynet Systems
Location: Des Moines
Posted on: January 17, 2020

Job Description:

We are looking for Research Assistant for our client in Des Moines, IA Job Title: Research Assistant Job Location: Des Moines, IA Job Type: Contract W2 candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor H1b or work with third-party candidates at this time Job Description:

• Provides support on primary and secondary research projects for the two-person department, which includes Associate Director and Research Manager.
• Manages weekly magazine cover testing projects, including survey programming, reporting of results, and panel management.
• Maintains the department website, which is a company-wide library of consumer insights and trend reports.
• Manages monthly department newsletter and provides administrative support for the department. Essential Functions: Primary Research Support(50%): Manage ongoing weekly primary research studies for magazine cover testing:
  • Program online surveys.
  • Communicate with online research community members.
  • Create engaging content and activities to help ensure community member retention.
  • Report results weekly using a template procedure.
  • Communicate with editors to gather materials, organize the cover testing schedules, and handle customer requests.
  • Interact with the supplier to maximize the utility of the consumer panel interface. Secondary Research Support (45%): Maintain department communications tools:
    • Public SharePoint - regularly add new secondary research reports on key categories of interest to the company, ensuring the company-wide site is always updated and organized for site users.
    • Monthly Department Newsletter - use Constant Contact to create and deploy our monthly newsletter, which highlights new research added to the SharePoint site.
    • Research Requests - conduct information searches among public and private, internal, and external research sources in response to internal client requests (infrequent). Administrative (5%):
      • Organize print materials in the department library.
      • Other administrative tasks as needed. - provided by Dice

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