Job Description

The pay rate for this part-time position is $20/ hour. Hourly wage is based on experience and geographical location.

• Flexible work schedule
• Access to an employee discount program
• Reimbursable travel time and mileage

Field Interviewers are responsible for:

• Traveling frequently to selected locations to recruit selected respondents
• Making in-person and phone contact to locate respondents aged 58-96 to discuss the study, answer questions, and obtain participation
• Making in-person and phone contact with selected respondents to avert and convert refusals to participate
• Collecting confidential information and administering standardized questionnaires via phone and in-person lasting up to 150 minutes per interview
• Independently managing administrative duties, including participating in conference calls and completing online and in-person trainings
• Transmitting data as scheduled
• Administering cognitive assessments (e.g., animal naming test, word recall, and counting backwards)
• Administering physical function testings using dynamometer [hand-held device]
• Providing verbal instructions to respondents for self-collection of whole dried blood spots using a small deviceand assisting when needed. Linked here is an informational video regarding this process:
• Providing verbal instructions to respondents for self-collection of saliva using an Oragene Saliva Kit and assisting when needed
• Ensuring proper storage, handling, packaging, and shipping of bio-specimens (TASSO device and Oragene tube) according to project protocols
• Managing and storing paper documents
• Clearly and concisely documenting all efforts to contact and interview respondents at the end of each workday
• Maintaining regular access to a reliable wireless internet connection in your home for project work
• Meeting weekly with supervisor via Zoom
• Assuming full and legal responsibility for use and care of project-issued equipment
• Managing and securing any participant incentives, issued equipment, or project materials against damage, loss, or theft
• Safeguarding any participant incentives, issued equipment, or project materials against damage, loss, or theft
• Assuming responsibility for and carefully tracking all participant incentives
• Submitting timely and accurate Time & Expense reports
• Virtually attend scheduled meetings with other members of the project team

RTI International is seeking part-time interviewers on the Add Health Parent Study (AHPS) , a Biosocial Resource for the Study of Multigenerational Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Alzheimers Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD).

AHPS is a research study conducted by the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). AHPS will attempt to locate and interview the parents of a sample of Add Health respondents who were adolescents in 1995 some of whom were interviewed for the first phase of AHPS, conducted 2015- 2018, and some of whom have not participated since 1995. The AHPS parents are now between 58-90 years old.

AHPS is an ongoing study of social, behavioral, and biological factors influencing healthy aging and the development of AD/ADRD in a national sample of adults currently aged 58-90. Significant knowledge gaps exist regarding intergenerational dimensions of cognitive aging and risk for AD/ADRD, and how these processes differ across race and ethnic groups. Phase 2 of this study will address these gaps.

Combined data from AHPS Phases 1 and 2 will be linked with rich longitudinal data on original Add Health respondents to create and disseminate the first nationally representative multigenerational biosocial resource with cognitive, genomic, behavioral, and social data for the study of racial/ethnic disparities in cognitive aging and AD/ADRD risk.

Additional information about this study can be found at the project website:

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Must be at least 21 years old at the time of employment
• Must possess High School Diploma or GED
• Comfortable with the following:
• visible blood in the collection device. Interviewers will not draw blood themselves
• viewing, handling, packaging and shipping bio-specimens (TASSO device and Oragene tube)
• wearing a mask/gloves during the blood and saliva portion of the in-person visit

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