Research Assistant III

Leidos•Dayton, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos Health & Services sector is seeking a Research Assistant III to support clinical and experimental intramural human use research at the Naval Medical Research Unit in Dayton, OH. The research focus includes projects investigating human performance under various stressors common in aerospace environments, such as hypoxia, breathing resistance, motion sickness, spatial disorientation, and thermal stress. This research aims to enhance the performance, resilience, and wellness of service members by optimizing warfighter performance in challenging environments. The successful candidate will support multidisciplinary programs for cognitive performance research, understand the application of human research to operational needs of the joint fleet, and contribute to research pertinent to the United States Navy.

Requirements

Bachelors degree with 4+ years of relevant experience or Masters degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
Degrees in Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience, Physiology/Neurophysiology, or Neuropsychology.
May consider other STEM degrees which provide a good foundation for research, such as Human Factors, Biology, Psychology, Physiology, or Mathematics.
Post-graduate life scientist research assistant/research project manager
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders in various scientific environments (hands-on, laboratory, and computer-based).
Ability to obtain Secret Clearance
US Citizen

Nice To Haves

Experience in a military or medical research environment is highly desired
Experience with human subject research
Familiarity with brain function, research psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive behavior
Familiarity with fNIRS, EEG MATLAB, Psych Toolbox, Swift, and/or Python
Institutional Review Board/Human Research Participant Protection
Human subject data collection
Information assurance, HIPAA, Privacy Act
Human Performance laboratory or similar experience
Clinical research or patient health care
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program Training)

Responsibilities

Conduct research, serving as research assistant III, study team lead, collecting data and acting on behalf of a PI if needed, by following research protocols.
Make independent decisions on subject, research assistant, and intern safety.
Determine if/when it is appropriate to begin data collection, daily.
Determine who can participate in studies based on subject criteria.
Use professional judgement to determine when to start or stop a study at any time.
May perform all recruiting for studies.
Manage day-to-day government research lab operations, applied operational based tasks for warfighter performance and research applications for perceptual modeling and simulation.
Support the research process across the project's lifecycle, including but not limited to reviewing literature, performing pilot testing, preparing research protocols, developing experimental procedures, screening, and scheduling of study participants, conducting research through surveys, interviews, observations, and other data collection methods.
Coordinate the implementation of sponsored and PI initiated research studies, including regulatory requirements, maintenance of files/study records and all activities associated with internal and external audits in coordination with the PI.
Coordinate scheduling and screening of research subjects and data collection. This includes participant recruitment and direct interaction with participants, scheduling and screening study participants, data collection, management, and analysis.
Prepare paperwork for the PI required for human subjects and/or animal use research approval and ensure compliance with rules and regulations, including human subjects and/or animal use research approval.
Make recommendations to the PI for study proposal design, modify and plan research experiments, procedures, tests, or survey instruments; recommend research design and develop a study budget.
Perform as team lead, design study tasks, and independently modify these tasks based on designing and testing of the tasks and instrumentation.
Make recommendations regarding what does or does not work for these task designs in relation to the overall study design.
Prepare presentations, posters and sections of material for written published articles as well as proposal authorship. This includes development of presentations and publications including literature searches and preparing bibliographies and preparing sections for presentations and written published articles.
Write abstracts and present research findings.
Take part in the write up of research articles.
May provide technical direction to other Research Assistants on the team according to study.
May assist and educate other research assistant personnel in the understanding and performance of their duties.
Prepare and analyze qualitative and quantitative data, such as univariate and multivariate analyses of variance, regression analysis, and descriptive summaries statistical analyses.
Design and develop data management procedures and processes; manage data in spreadsheets, including verification of data entry.
Analyze data independently and make judgments on whether to keep data points or throw them out (i.e. outliers, erroneous data due to equipment malfunction, etc.)
Based on data analysis results, make recommendations to P.I. on whether or not data should be used or not used and suggest different statistical analyses, interpret data findings, etc.
Develop standard operating procedures for laboratory instrumentation and equipment.
Clean and maintain instrumentation, equipment, and laboratories.
Monitor supply inventory and replenish stocks through established Command supply procedures.
Maintain laboratory instrumentation, equipment, and spaces.