Primary Requirements/Responsibilities/Professional Skills:

• Research associates will be working for our International Research Center (IRC)
• This is not an employment position; this a project based contract.
• Confidentiality, Privacy and Integrity
  • You will be conducting breakthrough research on highly sensitive topics touching peoples lives in every possible aspect, including but not limited to psychological, social, political, economical and other areas.
  • We take the confidentiality and privacy of our surveys and the people involved very seriously. If people do not trust us or believe that a contractor or an employee or a third party can get access to their information for any other than the stated reason, they will not be honest, candid or forthcoming when sharing their information, opinions and experiences; this will ultimately result in inaccurate research results.
  • We have very strict rules and processes to ensure complete privacy of the surveys and the people involved. You must sign a non-disclosure and a non-compete agreements. You may not advertise or share publicly or privately with anyone any information about the research work done at the Institute without a written permission. This include verbal, email, online posting, social media, family, friends or future employers. We do this to prevent anyone in your social network from connecting any learned information to any person surveyed, thus enabling us to keep our promises of complete privacy.
  • Privacy and confidentiality rules include but not limited to work references, collected people information, data collection methodologies, learned analysis, insights and research networks. Upon completing the project, you must submit all data and may not retain any client or data identifying personal information of the people surveyed or their shared responses. Privacy protection entail deleting any electronic communication medium used through third party to prevent potential hackers and unauthorized access to the research subjects or data. You will sign an indemnification letter for any violation of confidentiality and privacy laws
• Good communication, analysis and people skills
• Good organization, time management and quality of work is a must
• Since, most of the time, you will be working autonomously with no one monitoring your work-time,  perfectionism is a must. Auditors will review the quality of your work and compensation will be subject to auditors' approval of the work submitted