Interviewer - Part Time (Selma)

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

Interviewers are responsible for:

• Traveling frequently to selected locations to recruit study participants
• Making in-person and phone contact to locate respondents aged 58-90 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 trainings
• Transmitting data as scheduled
• Administering cognitive assessments (e.g., animal naming test, word recall, and counting backwards)
• Administering physical function testing using a dynamometer [hand-held device]
• Providing verbal instructions to respondents for self-collection of whole dried blood spots using a small device and assisting when needed. Linked here is an informational video regarding this process: Dried Blood Collection — Tasso, Inc.
• 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, securing, and 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
• Attend virtually 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 Alzheimer’s 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 Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer's’ Disease-Related Dementias (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 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
  • asking survey questions on personally sensitive subject matters
• Possess effective communication skills through speech and listening
• Fluency in English through reading, writing, and speaking
• Available for entire training and data collection period
• Able to successfully complete training (self-guided, virtual, and in-person)
• Must have a valid US driver's license and reliable personal automobile available for business use
• Comfortable using RTI issued tablet, laptop and other associated equipment
• Access to password-protected Wi-Fi connection for data transmissions and administrative responsibilities
• Able to keep project information confidential
• Demonstrate effective organization and communication skills
• Willing to work in various types of weather conditions and after dark
• Willing to work weekday daytime hours with flexibility for some work in the evenings and weekends as dictated by case requirements
• Able to adjust schedule to interview respondents when they are available
• Proficient in the use of issued laptop when administering interview components
• Position involves physical demands of carrying, lifting, and climbing stairs. Physical effort includes supplies and equipment up to 20lbs
• In order to travel by air, federal law requires individuals have REAL ID or an acceptable alternative. This position may require the successful candidate to travel by air for business reasons. Accordingly, successful candidates must have, or be willing to obtain, a REAL ID, or TSA approved alternative

Preferred Qualifications for Ideal Candidates

• Two years' experience conducting in-person interviews
• Prior experience working on Add Health Study or ]]>