Research Services Entry Professional
About The Position
The Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS) is seeking a full-time Research Services Entry Professional to assist with the management and coordination of data access, acquisition of data resources, management of data use agreements, and administrative activities related to the research process. The person in this position will work closely with the ACCORDS’s Secondary Data Resource (SDR) Core. SDR provides a number of unique services to help build a vigorous and supportive research community across CU Anschutz. This role will also support research at the Center for Advancing Lung and Intensive Care Outcomes (CALICO) based in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine (PACCM). The effort for this role will be 50% with the SDR Core and 50% with CALICO. The Research Services Entry Professional will support and report to the CALICO Program Manager. These services include: Access to valuable data resources, Analytic research partnerships, Research and methodology training and support, Research computing infrastructure and expertise.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, public administration, social/behavioral sciences, physical sciences, nursing, healthcare, finance, accounting, business administration, business, or a directly related field from an accredited institution.
- A combination of education and related technical/military/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.
- Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products
- Ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written form
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize tasks for meeting project deadlines
- Superb interpersonal skills
- Strong work ethic
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship. We are unable to provide work visa sponsorship or employment authorization for this position now or in the future.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with the content, management, and processing of large administrative or sampled datasets from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and major private payer datasets (e.g., Merative MarketScan)
- Experience with research proposal and data management systems at CU Anschutz (e.g., InfoEd, REDCap)
- At least 1 year of experience in health services research
Responsibilities
- Maintain inventory of data use agreements (DUA), licenses, and data resources within the department
- Filing and maintenance of DUAs for renewals, notifications of changes, tracking of users, and certifications and destruction of data as required
- Manage documentation with the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects related to unfunded agreement submissions and associated paperwork
- Facilitate efficient sharing and distribution of data resources in compliance with DUA restrictions
- Assist in the maintenance of data management plans pertaining to data security and protection of the data in collaboration with University IT
- Work with campus IT providers to guide management of secure file storage and permissions to enable access to appropriate and approved data resources
- Record the initial receipt of data files and load, process, and output data into various file formats and maintain data documentation
- Identify new data resources to determine the usefulness/need of the resource
- Assist study team members in drafting data access, management, and security plans (e.g., for grant proposals, Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications)
- Assist with planning/coordinating schedules, recruiting participants, and other relevant research support tasks.
Benefits
- Medical: Multiple plan options
- Dental: Multiple plan options
- Additional Insurance: Disability, Life, Vision
- Retirement 401(a) Plan: Employer contributes 10% of your gross pay
- Paid Time Off: Accruals over the year
- Vacation Days: 22/year (maximum accrual 352 hours)
- Sick Days: 15/year (unlimited maximum accrual)
- Holiday Days: 10/year
- Tuition Benefit: Employees have access to this benefit on all CU campuses
- ECO Pass: Reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
