Research Assistant - Department of Ophthalmology

West Virginia University • West Virginia, WV

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Ophthalmology at West Virginia University is seeking a Research Assistant to support clinical research faculty. This role involves administrative tasks such as scheduling meetings and database management, liaison activities with the institutional review board and co-investigators, and direct clinical research activities including patient care and non-patient care tasks. The Research Assistant will be responsible for the ongoing management of multiple clinical studies. Other duties may be assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• A minimum of one (1) year of administrative research support in a health care environment.
• Any equivalent combination of related education and/or experience will be considered.
• Excellent communication skills: writing and verbal.
• Must be detail oriented and organized.
• Basic computer knowledge and prior experience with all the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Internet proficiency and ability to gather data and prepare reports.
• Ability to prioritize is a must.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
• Be present in a professional and positive manner.

Nice To Haves

• Associate’s degree or Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Attend regular clinical research meetings, generate task lists and action plans.
• Maintain a registry of ongoing clinical research studies (status, delegation of responsibilities logs, and timelines, etc.).
• Effectively communicate with internal and external collaborators with a high degree of integrity and confidentiality and in a professional manner at all times.
• Schedule and coordinate phone, video, and physical conferences among research staff.
• Interact with clinical research coordinator team and institutional review board to facilitate research oversight.
• Operate and maintain standard office equipment.
• Create and maintain data files using Excel, REDCap, and other data management software.
• Assist in preparation of reports, perform data searches and information gathering as needed.
• Assist with special projects as needed.
• Effectively organize and prioritize tasks to complete them in a professional and timely manner.
• Conduct reviews of medical records to extract data for retrospective analyses or to determine eligibility for future studies.
• May be involved with data collection from research subjects, including both historical information and performance of noninvasive tests (upon completion of training).
• Conduct ongoing audit and quality control of structural and functional data collected by site investigators in the ongoing NIH-funded COAST trial (involves ensuring timely performance of required testing, assessing quality metrics, ensuring concordance between test results and data entry, timely retesting as indicated, etc.).

Benefits

• 37.5-hour work week
• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• 15 annual leave (vacation) days per year or more based on years of service (employee leave)
• 18 sick days per year
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6%25 employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks.
• Wellness programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED