定性研究员（合同职位）
Qualitative Researcher (Contract Role)
关于CDI
Constructive Dialogue Institute（CDI）是一家非党派非营利组织，致力于为下一代美国人提供跨分歧沟通与协作的技能。自2017年成立以来，CDI已与全国150多所高校建立合作，提供基于证据的系列项目，旨在覆盖校园各个层级的利益相关者——从校长到新生——以营造探究和对话的校园文化。CDI由心理学家Jonathan Haidt联合创办，他是《正义之心》和《焦虑的一代》的畅销书作者。
职位简介
CDI正在寻找基于项目的定性研究人员（1099承包商），以支持大规模的校园文化定性研究。随着工作在各校园的持续扩展，这是CDI的长期需求。
该职位适合有经验的定性研究人员，具备出色的访谈和主持/引导技能、文档分析、编码能力，对文档质量有高标准，并能在复杂群体环境和与高级领导沟通时保持冷静的专业态度。这项工作具有强烈的使命感：理解校园利益相关者对言论、学术自由和机构信任等敏感问题的观点。有Dovetail使用经验者优先。
你将负责多项任务，具体根据你的可用性和CDI的需求，包括一对一访谈、小组访谈、焦点小组引导、大规模文档分析和备忘录撰写。你所提供的所有服务都必须使用CDI已建立的定性研究流程和协议。
职责可能包括：
- 使用结构化指南进行虚拟访谈，生成高质量的视频记录
- 一致地应用研究协议，识别风险或偏差，并提出适当的调整建议
- 生成清晰、条理分明的访谈摘要，减少返工需求
- 整合不同参与者的访谈数据，识别模式、主题和关键洞察
- 进行大规模文档分析审查，以支持三角验证
- 根据既定的编码框架对定性数据进行标记和整理
- 使用既定的命名规范和文档标准提交研究材料
- 保持良好的关系、中立和专业性——即使在参与过程中遇到困难也如此
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About CDI
The Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI) is a non-partisan non-profit dedicated to equipping the next generation of Americans with the skills to communicate and collaborate across lines of difference. Since its founding in 2017, CDI has partnered with more than 150 colleges and universities nationwide, offering an evidence-based suite of programs designed to reach stakeholders at every level of a campus—from presidents to incoming students—to create campus cultures of inquiry and dialogue. CDI was co-founded by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the bestselling author of The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.
About the Role
CDI is seeking project-based qualitative researchers (1099 contractors) to support large-scale qualitative studies examining campus culture. This is an ongoing need for CDI as the work continues to expand across various campuses.
This is a great fit for experienced qualitative researchers with strong interviewing and moderation/facilitation skills, document analysis, coding, a high bar for documentation quality, and the ability to represent CDI with calm professionalism in complex group settings and with senior leaders. The work is deeply mission-driven: understanding the perspectives of campus stakeholders on charged issues of speech, academic freedom, and institutional trust. Experience with Dovetail is a plus.
What You’ll Do
You will support multiple functions, depending on your availability and CDI’s needs including one-on-one interviews, small-group interviews, focus group facilitation, and scale document analysis, and memo writing. For all potential services you provide you will be required to use CDI’s established qualitative research procedures and protocols.
Responsibilities may include:
- Conducting virtual interviews using structured guides that result in high-quality video recordings
- Applying research protocols consistently, identifying risks or deviations, and suggesting appropriate adjustments
- Producing clear, well-organized interview summaries that require minimal rework
- Synthesizing interview data across participants to identify patterns, themes, and key insights
- Conducting reviews of large scale document analysis to support triangulation
- Tagging and organizing qualitative data according to an established coding framework
- Submitting research materials using established naming conventions and documentation standards
- Maintaining rapport, neutrality, and professionalism—even when participants are skeptical or challenging
The focus will be on qualitative research supporting work of the CDI Culture Change Team. Depending on availability and fit, you may also be invited to support other qualitative research efforts (e.g., user experience research or exploratory/discovery studies).
Requirements
About You
- Relevant experience: 3+ years of applied qualitative research experience, including interviewing and small group moderating
- Domain expertise: Familiarity with the dynamics of campus life, institutional culture, organizational development, intergroup dialogue, civic education, and/or civic engagement in higher education
- High-quality interview and focus group facilitation: Able to work from structured guides while adjusting flexibly to the moment; your video transcripts can be used downstream by team members who were not in the interview
- Clear communicator: Clear interview summaries that synthesize key interview takeaways, following CDI’s format
- Comfort with discomfort: Comfortable interfacing with skeptical or high-status stakeholders (e.g., faculty, senior leaders, students)
- Contract experience: Prior contract or freelance experience; used to ebbs/flows, can commit to scoped deliverables during project windows
- Operationally reliable: You keep your calendar/availability up to date, show up on time, communicate clearly, handle data securely, and meet deadlines
- Technologically equipped: You must have access to a computer, dependable internet connection, a quiet, private, professional setting for conducting interviews, and be comfortable using Zoom
- Bonus: Experience with video transcript tagging via a research repository like Dovetail
Engagement Details
- Contract Type: Part-time, independent contractor
- Reports to: Director of Campus Culture Change
- Time zones / working hours: Part-time within U.S. time zones (availability during standard U.S. business hours required)
- Location: Fully Remote
- Workload variability & time commitment: Work is episodic. During active studies you must be available for a defined interview window (typically 4–8 weeks/project), with some weeks requiring 10–20 interviews/week. A typical project is ~40–80 total hours, depending on interview volume and study needs. This is an ongoing need with the potential to offer positions at the start of each semester.
- Compensation: $100-150/hour, itemized by project, based on experience
Highlights
Support positive campus culture change through doc analysis, interviews and focus groups. Contract qualitative researcher opportunity. 3+yrs exp. Long term engagement potential.
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