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Lenmar Consulting Inc

Lenmar Consulting Inc is hiring: User Design Specialist - part time (Max $60/hr

Lenmar Consulting Inc, Reston, VA, United States, 22090

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Company Description Education

Location & Hours: Remote (work core Eastern Time hours)

Role

Job Description

  • This is a part-time position – 20 hours per week
  • This is a temp position expected to last 3-6 months from the start date

Team

Infrastructure, Information Security, Product DevOps, Network Engineering, Enterprise Services & Tools

Role Summary

As our User Design Specialist, you will support all our research practices: executing participant recruitment, informed consent, screening, scheduling, and incentives. This role requires creative problem solving and strategic judgement to ethically recruit participants across the student journey—from early childhood to post-secondary education. You will help shape what excellent research operations look like in a mission-driven, experimental context, contributing to the broader culture of evidence-informed design at the Client.

Responsibilities

  • Support research operations across the lifecycle: recruiting participants, managing a participant panel, scheduling, screening, informed consent, and incentives
  • Lead ethical recruitment across the student journey (from early childhood to post-secondary education) with strategic problem solving
  • Develop and standardize research operations to scale in a mission-driven, experimental environment
  • Create documentation, templates, and lead internal workshops on best practices in research enablement
  • Collaborate with teams to match participants to studies and train teams on processes
  • Support qualitative and quantitative research methods across multiple products and user needs
  • Assist with data collection and analysis tasks (note-taking for qualitative studies, preparing data for analysis)
  • Work with tools such as Airtable, Dovetail, Qualtrics, UserTesting, Dscout, or similar; help decide on tools to meet teams’ needs
  • Demonstrate strong project management and systems design skills; build scalable processes
  • Exhibit excellent organizational, collaboration, and communication skills
  • Bring a creative, proactive, entrepreneurial mindset to improve research practices
  • Uphold ethical research practices and protect user data privacy
  • Adapt in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with shifting priorities

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in research operations, UX research, or related program management roles
  • Experience in research enablement — creating documentation, templates, and leading internal workshops
  • Experience across the research lifecycle: recruiting participants, managing a participant panel, and training teams
  • Experience supporting qualitative and quantitative research across multiple teams
  • Experience supporting data collection and analysis: note-taking and data preparation
  • Experience with tools such as Airtable, Dovetail, Qualtrics, UserTesting, Dscout, or similar; ability to select or justify tool choices
  • Strong project management and systems design skills
  • Excellent organizational, collaboration, and communication skills
  • Creative, proactive, entrepreneurial mindset
  • Respect for ethical research practices and user data privacy
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with shifting priorities

Nice to have

  • Experience working with mission-driven organizations, public education, or nonprofits
  • Experience supporting research involving youth, families, or vulnerable populations
  • Experience creating inclusive research frameworks and protocols
  • Interest in creative visual storytelling that brings research to life

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Job Details

  • Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type: Contract
  • Job function: Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

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