Labs Supervisor for Business Administration School

About the role

The Labs Supervisor oversees the Behavioral Research Lab and computer laboratories within the School of Business Administration, supporting faculty and student research activities.

Key responsibilities

• Manage day‑to‑day operations of the Behavioral Research Lab and SBA computer labs.
• Coordinate, schedule, and support laboratory‑based experiments and data collection.
• Maintain lab computers, servers, networks, software and research equipment in collaboration with IT Services.
• Install, configure, test and troubleshoot research software and platforms such as oTree, z‑Tree, Qualtrics, Prolific and MTurk.
• Develop and manage participant recruitment systems and ensure compliance with privacy and ethical standards.
• Provide technical support for data extraction, cleaning, visualization and preliminary analysis.
• Monitor lab utilization and prepare regular reports on usage, licenses, inventory and performance.
• Coordinate software licensing, renewals and vendor relationships.
• Maintain inventory records, prepare budget forecasts and expenditure reports.
• Develop and update lab policies, procedures, user guides and train users.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Business Analytics or related field.
• Minimum three years of experience in laboratory management, research administration or research technology support.
• Experience supporting academic research environments, managing software licenses and vendor relationships.
• Strong project management, organizational and communication skills.

Required skills

• Programming and statistical tools: Python, R, Stata, SPSS, SAS, SQL.
• Experimental platforms: oTree, z‑Tree, Qualtrics.
• Survey and participant platforms: Prolific, MTurk.
• Version control: Git/GitHub.
• Web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Data visualization: Microsoft Power BI, Tableau.
• Microsoft Office Suite, advanced Excel.