AIMS Research Assessor & Screener

UCLA Health•Los Angeles, CA

45d•$28 - $46•Onsite

About The Position

The Semel Institute is seeking a full-time Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator to serve as the AIMS Research Assessor & Screener, a key role supporting impactful mental health research. Reporting to the Principal Investigator, this position is responsible for coordinating participant recruitment, maintaining a steady flow of eligible subjects, and conducting outreach to clinical and community sites. You will guide participants through informed consent procedures, complete eligibility screenings and baseline assessments, and administer standardized diagnostic instruments such as the GRID Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, and the Scale for Suicide Ideation. In addition, you will schedule and conduct follow-up assessments, support participant engagement throughout this longitudinal study, and ensure all interactions and data are handled with the highest degree of accuracy, confidentiality, and professionalism. The role also includes essential research administration and data management activities, including scheduling study visits, preparing study materials, maintaining participant files and tracking systems, generating study communications, and assisting with data entry, data cleaning, and collaboration with statisticians. This position offers the opportunity to play a meaningful part in advancing clinical research while developing specialized expertise in psychological assessment and study coordination

Requirements

Minimum of 1+ years of experience in a clinical research setting
Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators and administration and to work as a member of a team.
Ability to effectively communicate to and interact with patients in a compassionate and kind manner.
Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University policies and federal and state regulations.
Analytical skills to assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.
A learning and professional growth mentality so that new software tools, systems, and processes can be adopted quickly and efficiently.
Working knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.
Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.
Ability to adapt to changing job demands and priorities, remain flexible including working flexible hours to accommodate research deadlines.
Ability to handle confidential information with judgement and discretion.
High degree of concentration and focus in a work environment that contains distracting stimuli, competing deadlines, and work delegated by more than one individual.
Availability to work in more than one environment, travelling to various clinic sites, meetings, conferences, etc…

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree

Responsibilities

Coordinating participant recruitment
Maintaining a steady flow of eligible subjects
Conducting outreach to clinical and community sites
Guiding participants through informed consent procedures
Completing eligibility screenings and baseline assessments
Administering standardized diagnostic instruments such as the GRID Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, and the Scale for Suicide Ideation
Scheduling and conducting follow-up assessments
Supporting participant engagement throughout this longitudinal study
Ensuring all interactions and data are handled with the highest degree of accuracy, confidentiality, and professionalism
Scheduling study visits
Preparing study materials
Maintaining participant files and tracking systems
Generating study communications
Assisting with data entry
Assisting with data cleaning
Collaboration with statisticians