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** - Prior work on an IRB-approved study, or familiarity with informed consent and participant confidentiality requirements - Experience with federally funded or government-sponsored research - Multilingual ability, particularly Spanish - Experience recruiting or scheduling hard-to-reach participants - Background in 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