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The RPCA is seeking a motivated Masters student to join our team in Septemeber of 2023 to lead, implement, and organize our yearly Refugee Mental Health Stakeholder event, a collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital's Trauma and Community Resilience Center (PI: Heidi Ellis). This yearly event has an average of 200 attendees and 5-10 speakers ranging from the clinical to research setting. Last year's event is available to watch via YouTube.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all aspects of webinar, including but not limited to planning topics, speaker outreach, communications with BCH team, and technological logsitics.
• Manage and develop bi-weekly newsletters for the New England Refugee Network (NERN) 
• Implement program deliverables for stakeholder event from start to finish (6 month committment is required).

Qualifications include:

• Currently enrolled in Masters in Social Work, Public Health, Mental Health Counseling, Psychology, or other related fields.
• Previous experience with event planning required
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work independently
• Committment to 6 months of work 
• Strong organization and planning skills

Start Date: September 25, 2023

Hours per week: 10-15

This is a paid position available ONLY to BC Graduate students. 

The RPCA is seeking a motivated graduate student to join our team and support our home-visiting family strengthening/early childhood development program in Rwanda, Sugira Muryango. The Research Assistant will be responsible for supporting our team across a variety of projects including but not limited to:

Responsibilities:

• Quality monitoring of project implementation 
• Support team on the ground in Rwanda through mutual learning/capacity building with data analysis, display, and visualization for digital data collection tools
• Run basic statistical analysis and data processing for both quantitative and qualitative data
• Support data visualization through graph and figure creation 
• Develop powerpoints and visualizations for funders and stakeholders
• Attend RPCA team meetings depending on current tasks and technical meetings with postdoctoral researchers and collaborators as needed.

Qualifications include:

• Currently enrolled in Boston College Masters or PhD program in Measurement, Evaluation, Stats, Social Work, Clinical Psychology, or other related fields.
• 3 years of previous research experience required
• Basic understanding of applied social/health sciences research processes (research questions, hypotheses, data collection, analysis, reporting).
• Intermediate knowledge of statistics preferred
• Experience with quantitative research and coding required 
• Experience in STATA, RedCap, R, MAXQDA
• Proficiency in utilizing typical computer software, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Box, etc.)
• Excellent coordination, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Culturally humble

Start Date: NOW

Hours per week: 15-20

This is a paid opportunity for Boston College students.

The RPCA is seeking a motivated undergraduate student to join our team and support the implementation of our 2024 Research Symposium in Dublin, Ireland with Trinity College. The student will be expected to committ to the role for two semesters.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate weekly activties for planning event
• Coordinating travel and visas for speakers attending event
• Tracking budgets and documentation for event
• Coordinating with RPCA and Trinity team 
• Reviewing applicants for student competition 
• Developing materials and handouts for event 

Qualifications include:

• Previous experience in event management preferred
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work 10 hours per week 
• Travel coordination experience preferred but not required

Start Date: October 1, 2023

Hours per week: 10

This is a paid position.