SENIOR CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCHER

SENIOR CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCHER

(Remote)

Location:
Optimization of Human Capital Program of Record Program

Human Effectiveness Directorate

United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433-7951

• Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required DoD Clearance Required
• Clearance Requirements: Tier 3 Background Investigation - National Agency Check with Law and Credit Check and fingerprints. (Standard Form 86).
• Estimate Pay: $92,000 - $95,000 per year (Negotiable)
• Type of Employment: 40 hours per week.
• Period of Performance: 09 February 2025 08 February 2027.
• Paid Time Off per Year: 80 hours per year, occurring on day one.
• Sick Leave per Year: 56 hours per year, occurring on day one.
• Paid Federal Holidays: Eleven (11) Paid Federal Holidays
• Travel: Travel is authorized

Working Hours:
Work will be scheduled normally from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. However, there may be times when the employees must work after duty hours or on weekends in support of specific tasks. Although the schedule may have to be flexible, it will not exceed 40 hours per week. Temporary alternate work locations may be assigned.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Shall have an Advanced degree (PhD) in Clinical, Counseling, or Clinical Health Psychology from an accredited institution.
• An approved APA-accredited internship.
• An active state license in good standing to practice clinical psychology.
• Possess board certification in Clinical Health Psychology or Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
  • Due to the nature of the program, candidates without these additional certifications will be considered.
• Have at least five (5) years of operational or medical leadership experience with Air Force populations within the last 10 years to provide the team with the necessary and current expertise for this position.
• Have experience as an operational psychologist, aeromedical psychologist, director of psychological health, leadership position in an Air Force medical treatment facility, or other operational position that would have provided the candidate with a broad understanding of the system in which the Air Force Warfighter operates.
• Have at least two (2) years of research and program development within the last 10 years with experience including studies and analysis and process improvement research.
• Relevant experience focused on design, development, application, and evaluation of human subjects experiments and data collection.
• Demonstrated in the previously identified operational positions or by publications in peer-reviewed psychological or related journals.
• Have graduate course work and/or experience in clinical research design and development, and in writing published peer-reviewed behavioral science research reports.

Highly Desired Qualifications:

• Currently possessing a Tier 3 Security Clearance

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Exhibit competence in the rigorous methods of scientific inquiry and analysis.
• The ability to employ scientific and analytical techniques to define, quantify, and recommend the feasibility of assigned projects, studies, or problems, and perform independent analysis leading to unique analytical research proposals and studies that recommend alternative courses of action to Optimization of Human Capital (OHC) Program personnel.
• Ensure discovered problems are clearly defined through data collection, research, and investigation of objectives and relevant criteria.
• Serve as the psychological Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the senior research coordinator as they prepare and maintain test results, technical information, reports, and briefings on progress, and provide evaluation, analysis, and recommendations for ongoing and proposed human performance research.
  • The number of presentations, reports, and papers shall be determined based on the relevance of research findings as they become available.
• Design strategic research plans in consultation with the senior research coordinator and 711th Human Performance Wing (711th HPW) /Air and Space Biosciences Division (RHB) Research staff.
• Assist in the planning of research objectives outlined by 711HPW/RHB Research staff.
• Coordinate, plan, and liaison with 711HPW/RHB Research staff regarding project goals, reporting of results, development of data collection strategies, and analyses/interpretation of data.
• Identify additional questions to be answered, provide or critique essential elements of analysis, and provide alternatives to be considered, as well as suggest analytical techniques to be employed.
• Be the psychological SME to the OHC Principal Investigators (PI) for the design and implementation of psychological interventions to be studied under OHC.
• Responsibilities include providing direct support to the Performance & Resilience Optimization (PRO) Program research personnel and laboratory settings for the execution of Research, Development Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E).
• Travel to implement the intervention or related data collection in the event the research coordinator and other support personnel are unavailable to travel.
• Perform and complete assignments involving work with diverse and dynamic groups.
• Establish and maintain a constant and effective working relationship within the division, the directorate, 711 HPW, MAJCOMs, Air Staff, academia, business, and industry customers, partners, and stakeholders for coordination, support, and changes to the performance of assigned work.
• Maintain effective working relationships with principal investigators, program managers, researchers, and support staff involved in the acquisition of medical systems and conduct of human performance research.
• Have an exceptionally high capacity for working autonomously, performing assigned tasks with minimal supervision, have strong attention to detail, have strong English skills, good organizational skills, initiative in performing assigned tasks, and the ability to follow-up complex projects.
• Serve as the Clinical Psychology SME to other related research efforts within the Air and Space Biosciences Division, or its research partners, as deemed appropriate by the OHC PI.

• Maintain confidentiality of data and contents of technical reports that are deemed sensitive and not releasable to the general public.
• All relevant publications and presentations will be coordinated and approved for release/classification level by the 711th HPW Scientific and Technical Information (STINFO) process.
• Support the coordination and response to organizational taskers, and administrative requests, and interfacing with 711 HPW leadership and staff in support of the PRO Program as needed.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

• Competitive Compensation package
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision options.
• Outstanding career growth potential.

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