Research Study Assistant (Temporary)
About The Position
The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine has an outstanding opportunity for a temporary Research Study Assistant to join their team. This is an hourly nonpermanent position expected to work primarily onsite. The hourly rate for this position is between $21.77 - $23.91. Reporting to Lindsey Knowles, the Research Study Assistant is a highly motivated, interpersonally skilled, inquisitive, and organized individual who is responsible for assisting with the day-to-day administration of our research program focused on improving the lives of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). This is a great opportunity to obtain valuable experience as a research study assistant responsible for daily operations of research studies involving human participants.
Requirements
- Two years of college-level course work in a relevant academic area AND one year of appropriate experience.
- Superb customer service skills and a commitment to provide best in class service.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and writing skills.
- Experience recruiting, screening, and enrolling participants for clinical trials.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills, strong detail orientation, and ability to adeptly manage multiple priorities and timelines.
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Nice To Haves
- Experience conducting neuropsychological testing with participants.
- Experience with clinical trials and/or longitudinal observational studies of human subjects.
- Experience working with people with disabilities.
- Familiarity working with EPIC.
- Completion of at least one course in research methods and/or statistics in a social sciences field.
- At least one years’ experience working on a research study examining health issues, or relevant education/experience.
Responsibilities
- Identifying, screening, recruitment, and consent of study participants.
- Implementing actively participating in study visits, including the collection of data from measures of physical, psychological, and cognitive functioning.
- Tracking participants throughout studies, including assuring accurate accrual and tracking of clinical data points.
- Serving as primary contact for participant inquiries and independently resolving issues as they arise.
- Participating in the timely payment of study participants.
- Coordinating with the study investigators to monitor study budgets.
- Extracting technical, medical, and/or behavioral information from institution or clinical records of research participants.
- Screening medical records for study eligibility.
- Assisting with the implementation and oversight of REDCap databases to collect study data.
- Reporting problems, such as protocol deviations, to supervisors of the study.
- Participating in the cleaning, preparing, and producing of study data.
- Participating in team and project meetings, taking and distributing concise and clear meeting minutes.
- Regularly apprises team of progress, issues, and questions.
- Training staff and volunteers in tasks related to conducting the funded research projects.
- Other duties as assigned by the research coordinator or a faculty investigator.
- Assisting with preparing or writing study manuscripts.
- Assisting with preparing research grant proposals.
- Assisting with preparing study findings for presentations at conferences or in other venues.
Benefits
- For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-temporary-per-diem-and-less-than-half-time/
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
