This is a 75% (30-hours / week) position to coordinate activities and help deliver an in-school career education curriculum for high school students in East Tennessee as part of a 5-year NIH-funded Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), PiPES³: Picturing Possibilities and Envisioning Selves.

The project coordinator will liaison with our partner high schools, schedule all intervention and research activities, lead a team to deliver our in-school career education curriculum, assist in training team members, oversee data collection, assist with cleaning data and conducting basic analyses, maintain records, and complete required NIH annual reports.

Required Qualifications

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in psychology, human services, and/or STEM

• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

  • Strong organizational skills

  • Knowledge of basic adolescent development to understand typical high school student population

  • Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience:

  • 1-2 years experience in teaching, outreach, or research

• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
  • Experience with Qualtrics

Work Location

• Location: Knoxville, TN
• Onsite

Compensation and Benefits

• UT market range: MR08
• Anticipated hiring range: $34,000 – 34,700
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Application Instructions

To express interest, please submit an application with the noted below attachments. To be assured of full consideration, completed applications with all requested materials should be submitted on or before December 18, 2025, but review of applications will continue until position is filled.

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• List of 3 Professional References

About The Department

Although the position will be housed in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, the grant is a joint project between faculty in Psychology & Neuroscience and Counseling, Human Development, and Family Science in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences. The project coordinator will work with closely with the faculty co-PIs from these 2 departments, as well as graduate students in Psychology and Counselor Education and undergraduates (typically in Psychology & Neuroscience). The grant co-PIs have had 2 prior SEPA awards, so this will mark our 11^th year with the PiPES program. Across the two prior grants, we have served over 11,000 high school students in East Tennessee.

• Coordinating grant activities: maintain regular contact with each of our 4 partner high schools; schedule all grant activities (in school curriculum delivery, parent nights, data collection, summer camp); recruit and interview undergraduate and graduate student team members; maintain records for annual reporting; coordinate with and provide records to external evaluator
• Career education to 4 master's and undergraduate students in delivering our in-school career education intervention curriculum in intact 9^th, 10^th, and/or 11^th grade classrooms.
• General Administrative Duties: purchasing supplies and equipment; hardware/software maintenance; assisting with expense and grant management; maintaining project website; and general faculty support.
• Research: creating online surveys in Qualtrics used for data collection; managing human subject protocols; cleaning and merging data files; conducting basic analyses; conducting literature searches; contributing to manuscript preparation