Remote Research Interviewer — National Public Perspectives Study

**Location:** Remote (United States) **Duration:** Project-based through Q1 2027 **Interview Mode:** Video or phone **Overview** Join an internal research interviewing team for a large-scale national study exploring what people value in their daily lives, challenges in their communities, concerns, and visions for the future. This is a listening role focused on conducting conversational, open-ended interviews with members of the public across the United States. Interviewers work under a research lead who handles protocol, quality review, and scheduling. The team supports two distinct interview streams: high-volume national public interviews and specialist interviews with professionals in observation-heavy roles such as local journalists, paramedics, and social workers. **Key Responsibilities** * Conduct remote interviews (video or phone) with participants across a wide range of ages, regions, income levels, and backgrounds, following a standardized question guide * Ask open-ended questions and draw out long-form answers without leading, prompting, or inserting your own views * Record sessions with participant consent and produce accurate, complete transcripts * Log required metadata for every interview including participant region, demographic category, date, question mapping, and response traceability using the project tracker * Follow the study's informed-consent script and all human-subjects research protocols exactly as written * Maintain strict confidentiality regarding the study sponsor and follow a defined response protocol if participants ask who commissioned the research * Flag data quality issues, incomplete sessions, or unusual responses to the research lead rather than resolving them independently * Participate in onboarding training, calibration sessions, and periodic quality reviews of your recordings * Meet weekly interview targets set with your research lead and adjusted to your availability **Required Qualifications** * Excellent spoken and written English, with a neutral, non-leading interviewing manner * Demonstrated experience in interviewing, qualitative research, structured data collection, journalism, case management, intake work, oral history, market research, community outreach, or comparable settings where you asked people open-ended questions and documented their answers * Strong written documentation skills and genuine accuracy in transcription and note-taking * Ability to follow a research protocol precisely, without improvising the question set or the consent language * Comfort building quick rapport with people from backgrounds different from your own, and discretion with sensitive or personal disclosures * Willingness to complete human-subjects research ethics training (CITI or equivalent) during onboarding * Legally authorized to work in the United States and based in the US * Available across US time zones including some evenings and weekends when participants are available * A quiet, private workspace and reliable internet capable of stable video calls and audio recording **Preferred Qualifications** * **Preferred Qualifications** * Prior work on an IRB-approved study, or familiarity with informed consent and participant confidentiality requirements * Experience with federally funded or government-sponsored research * Spanish-speaking ability * Experience recruiting or scheduling hard-to-reach participants * Background in cultural anthropology, cultural psychology, sociology, anthropology, public policy, communications, journalism, social work, public health, or a related field * Familiarity with transcription tools and structured data entry * Already-current human-subjects research ethics certification (CITI or equivalent) **Work Location & Requirements** * Fully remote within the United States * Training, question guides, scheduling support, recording tools, and consent protocol are provided * Interview volume concentrated in the middle of the project window