Lab Expectations for Lab Coordinator

1 Duties

Duties for the Lab Coordinator include the following:

• Participant recruitment
• Participant scheduling
• Longitudinal tracking and retention of participants
• Data collection
• Data management
• Behavioral coding from video
• Supervision of research assistants
• Making lab space warm, welcoming, and child and family friendly
• Quality control and ensuring high-quality and efficient procedures
• Attending and contributing at lab meeting
• Supervision of lab staff
• Leading lab meeting
• Lab report

2 Your Schedule

Here are the expectations regarding your schedule:

• You are in the office for 40 hours per week that are regularly scheduled between 9am–5pm Monday through Friday.
• You may have to work outside those hours (early mornings/evenings/weekends) for the purpose of running participants.
• You get approval from me for any deviations from this schedule (working outside those hours, working more than 40 hours, etc.), and update your schedule accordingly in the online calendar.
• The position involves fully in-person work.
• You let me and the relevant team members know by Slack if you will not be able to make it in for your regularly scheduled hours.
• You let me and the relevant team members know in person or by Slack if you are leaving the office (running lab errands, etc.).
• You keep your schedule in the online calendar up-to-date with any changes.

3 Communication

• You will use Slack (or in person/phone) for most communication (see lab communication guidelines here), but you will use the lab email (i.e., devpsy-lab@uiowa.edu; not your personal email) for all lab-relevant email communication. This makes it easier for us to keep a record of lab-related communication for Dr. Petersen and future lab staff. For non-lab related email communication, you will use your personal university email (i.e., firstname-lastname@uiowa.edu). If someone contacts your personal university email with lab-related communication, you should reply using the lab email.
• You respond to team members promptly by email, Slack, or in person (within one business day). If you need time to gather information in response to a Slack message or email, please acknowledge receipt of the message and indicate when you will be able to provide the requested information. At times, I may contact you by email or Slack after hours (if that is when it is most convenient, so that I do not forget to). However, you are *not* expected to respond after hours. I will call you if something is urgent.

4 Lab Report

• We will have a weekly scheduled one-on-one meeting (in addition to other times I meet with you in the lab).
• You will submit a report no later than the day before so I can review it before our meeting and come prepared.
• The report should include:
  1. What you have accomplished since last week
  2. What you plan to accomplish in the next week
  3. Items to discuss, including problems, recommended solutions, and questions

5 Expectations for Everyone in Lab

In addition to the expectations described above for the Lab Coordinator, please also read the expectations for everyone in the lab.

6 Signature

Please download, sign, and email the below document to Dr. Petersen prior to your first day in lab.

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