Sr. Clinical Research Assistant

Brown Medicine • Madison, WI

2d • $48,069 - $79,373 • Onsite

About The Position

Under the general supervision of the Director of the Sleep and Circadian Methods Research Core, together with the supervision of the COBRE Center Director, the role of the Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Methods Research Core Research Assistant (SCMRC RA) is to serve as key support for the COBRE Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health’s project leaders as they integrate sleep and circadian rhythms methodologies into their projects. Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include: Instill Trust and Value Differences Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate.

Requirements

• Baccalaureate in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, or related fields.
• Exceptional “people skills,” enthusiasm, organization, creativity, and determination.
• Personal transportation is critical.
• Flexible schedule is necessary.
• Strong academic record.
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft (e.g., Office, Windows) and Apple computing environments.
• Prior research experience in human-subjects research (ideal themes include sleep, child mental health, psychology, neuroscience, or a data-driven behavioral science) or in data science and technology is preferred.
• Prior experience with statistics and/or programming (for example, experience with R, STATA, SPSS, MATLAB, UNIX, Python) is a plus.

Nice To Haves

• Research experience is desirable.
• Interested in graduate school, medical school, or a data-centered career in the behavioral or biomedical sciences.

Responsibilities

• Leveraging numerous methodologies to assist center-funded investigators and projects.
• Assisting in methods documentation and dissemination.
• Training faculty.
• Assisting in data collection, data organization, processing, and summarization.
• Aiding in preparing regulatory documents.
• Drafting reports.
• Contributing to presentations, publications, and the center’s broader academic activities (e.g., journal clubs).
• Interfacing with both the breadth of sleep and circadian rhythms basic science methodology and our center’s wide reach in the clinical domains of child and adolescent mental health.
• Working with and interacting with research participants and their families (participants can include children, adolescents, and adults).
• Ensuring information that the SRA comes across and/or collects remains confidential and respected.
• Assisting other teams when projects require additional attention.
• Performing independently within department policies and practices.
• Referring specific complex problems to supervisor where clarification of departmental policies and procedures may be required.

Benefits

• Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level