Department

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About the Department

The TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago develops, tests, and implements evidence-based interventions designed to promote very young children’s cognitive and social-emotional development. TMW Center interventions are designed to be embedded into existing health, education, and social service systems working at scale in a given community in order to meet families where they already are. The TMW Center has a robust research and development strategy that includes further development and testing of TMW interventions; harnessing technology to support behavior change, intervention engagement, and analysis; and furthering strategies to engage parents in the TMW Center’s interventions across the health, early learning, and social service sectors.

Job Summary

The Wearable Device Support Specialist coordinates the wearable device hardware work, aligning all teams (including contractors) on key decisions and priorities to ensure teams are delivering on expectations. Assists with the assembly of teams and the development of detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports using straightforward problem solving skills.

Responsibilities

Serves as first point of contact for issue management and navigates issue submitter to the appropriate channels.

Manages the launch of support software to streamline and scale processes.

Manages TMW stakeholder communication for wearable device roadmap.

Shares technical release information with partner-facing teams about features and bugs that are being addressed.

Coordinates stakeholder meetings to ensure alignment on wearable device strategy across topics related to hardware, software, and data science algorithms.

Support QA efforts, including sanity testing for all apps.

Builds and maintains internal support documentation, including User Manual and Troubleshooting Guide.

Monitors project workplan and schedule.

Coordinates events, researches logistics, assists with planning and preparing presentations, event outreach, and post-event write ups.

Maintains website (including but not limited to: employment page, news page, staff page, project pages, innovation challenge page).

Assists with other administrative projects as needed and acquire higher level guidance and skills.

Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications 

Experience:

Experience in a research lab.

Experience in early childhood research or education.

Preferred Competencies

Knowledge of child development or linguistics.

Familiarity with survey research methods.

Familiarity with research/statistics software and programs (e.g., Excel, Qualtrics, REDCap, R, SPSS) and/or programming.

Experience with technology development and support processes.

Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.

Application Documents

Resume/CV (required)

Cover Letter (required)

When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.

Job Family

Administration & Management

Role Impact

Individual Contributor

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Drug Test Required
 

No

Health Screen Required
 

No

Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
 

No

Pay Rate Type

Salary

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FLSA Status

Exempt

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Pay Range

$62,000.00 - $89,000.00

The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

Benefits Eligible

Yes

The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.

In addition to the base pay posted above, this position may be eligible for N/A

Posting Statement
 

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