Research Assistant

• Job Type: Support Staff - Union
• Bargaining Unit: SSA
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• Hours Per Week: 20
• Salary Range: $35,256 - $35,256

Position Summary

The research assistant will assist the Principal Investigator in implementing research protocols. The research assistant will support research investigating neurosensory pathways, social-emotional development, and elevated likelihood for mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders in maternal-child dyads.

Responsibilities

• Communicate well in a team environment and regularly present the state of work.
• Follow good clinical practice guidelines.
• Maintain IRB protocols, approvals, and reports.
• Initiate and maintain contact with study participants & work in concert with the Principal Investigator to develop and implement participant recruitment.
• Screen applicants, ensuring they meet the appropriate criteria, and make an independent judgment on their suitability for participation.
• Track participant enrollment and payments.
• Schedule participant visits.
• Assist the Principal Investigator with the development of standard operating procedures for data collection tasks.
• Assists with all data collection, including ECG and other physiological measures, cognitive, behavioral, and/or developmental assessments, and parent-child-interaction recordings.
• Interact professionally with research participants and research personnel.
• Coordinate the collection of follow-up data on participants as required by the protocol.
• Code behavioral and physiological data.
• Coordinate data management and other aspects of research protocols being conducted, including organizing and maintaining the database, and entering and maintaining participant records in project databases.
• Assist the Principal Investigator in manuscript and grant preparation, as well as presentation of research data.
• Manage lab supplies needed for daily office activities and specific research projects.
• Assist with the management of laboratory budget, including ordering equipment and supplies.
• Perform additional related duties and responsibilities as assigned/requested.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least one and one-half years of related experience or equivalent in education, training, and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Computing, programming, or software skills across multiple platforms are helpful, as is familiarity with statistical software packages (e.g., SPSS, R, MATLAB).
• Bilingual in Spanish.

Other Requirements

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Analytical skills and the ability to resolve technical or research problems and issues, and to interpret the acceptability of data results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required to work with study participants.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of clinical research protocols.
• High degree of computer literacy.
• Excellent organization skills and ability to prioritize a variety of tasks
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to demonstrate professionalism and respect for subjects' rights and individual needs.
• Knowledge of data management programs.
• Participation in the medical surveillance program.
  
  
  
  • Contact with patients and/or human research subjects.
  
  
  
  
• Successful completion of applicable compliance and systems training requirements.

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