Research Data Technician

Duke University:

Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.

Be You.

At Duke, we celebrate individuality and the unique perspectives that each member of our community brings. As a Bilingual Research Data Technician II, you will play a vital role in advancing innovative research designed to improve the health and well-being of children and families. You will join a collaborative team dedicated to evaluating evidence-based interventions that strengthen family relationships, promote healthy child development, and connect families to the resources they need to thrive.

This position supports two groundbreaking longitudinal studies:

ABC Impact Study (75%)

Although numerous evidence-based early childhood home visiting intervention programs have been implemented at small scale in community settings to reduce maltreatment and promote early relational health, no home visiting intervention has demonstrated population impact to lower child maltreatment rates. Most programs take a long-term, intensive approach serving self-selected high-risk families (secondary prevention), while only a few programs utilize a brief universal approach to support all families prior to any maltreatment exposure (primary prevention). Implemented in isolation, both approaches face significant barriers to population impact. To address these barriers while leveraging the strengths of each approach, this study will draw families from the entire population of births in a community using an empirically supported light touch, universal program (Family Connects; FC) to screen and recruit eligible families for an intensive, longer-term home visiting program (Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up; ABC). The goal is to determine the impact of this collaborative approach on parental sensitivity, parental functioning, child functioning, and child maltreatment.

Community Navigation (25%)

During some of the most critical years of child development, prenatally through age three, families spend significant time and resources navigating a fragmented system of care. Some families can get needed resources for their children, while others cannot for a variety of reasons.  Community Navigation charts a new vision that will offer all families universal screening to connect them to the right resources at the right time through a series of universal, light-touch engagements beginning prenatally and continuing through age 5. The goal is to engage all pregnant persons, learn about their strengths and needs for support and, when needs are identified, connect families to matched community resources for longer term support.