Part-Time Opportunity: Interviewers, NY State's Expanded Syringe Access Program

The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute of Beth Israel Medical Center is hiring interviewers to conduct primary data collection for an independent evaluation of NY State's Expanded Syringe Access Program. Interviewers will locate & recruit injecting drug users for on-the-spot, 25-minute interviews in the streets of Queens & Brooklyn; and administer oral OraSure HIV tests to the first 300 participants who are interviewed. Interviewers will be trained in research methods.

Job requirements include ability to determine who is a current injecting drug user; street outreach or street research experience among drug users; organizational skills and attention to detail are very important; work outdoors in all seasons; ability to work with a partner & provide support for in-street conditions; experience doing harm reduction with substance users is a plus; knowledge of Queens and Brooklyn is a plus; owning a car would be very helpful but is not required.

$20/hour; 8-9 daytime hours/week starting at 8:30am (not Sundays); contract end date 6/30/2007; applicants seeking less than 10 months work should not apply, in the interest of maintaining steady data collection.

E-mail or fax resume & cover letter to: Cathy Zadoretzky, Project Director, Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY 10038, (212) 256-2570 (fax), [email protected].