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About The Position

Requirements

• Two (2) years’ experience in basic science, translational, clinical, behavioral, and/or social sciences research.
• Relevant education may substitute for experience on a year for year basis.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Public Health, Health Science, Biomedical Science, Molecular Biology, or a related field.
• Experience in biospecimen research, including collection, processing, storage, shipment, inventory, and clinical/research data linkage.
• Wet-laboratory experience, including cell or tissue culture, specimen processing, pipetting, molecular biology, and biomarker assays.
• Experience with REDCap, SPSS, sample inventory systems, and laboratory documentation.
• Clinical, translational, or community-based research experience.
• Experience in otolaryngology, rhinology, chronic inflammatory disease, implementation science, or health equity.
• Multitasking
• Time management
• Communication
• Computer skills

Responsibilities

• Assist with development, organization, and maintenance of a departmental sinonasal and upper airway tissue biobank.
• Assist with biospecimen collection, processing, labeling, storage, shipment, and inventory management
• Maintain sample inventories, freezer maps, reagent logs, laboratory supplies, and equipment-use records.
• Perform basic wet-laboratory procedures as training allows, including pipetting, buffer/reagent preparation, aliquoting, centrifugation, sample processing.
• Maintain laboratory notebooks and standard operating procedures.
• Assist with cell and tissue culture, sample preparation, nucleic acid or protein extraction, ELISA, qPCR, microscopy, and other laboratory assays, as applicable.
• Assist with participant identification, recruitment, informed consent, and enrollment in clinic and operative settings.
• Support community-based participant recruitment procedures for implementation science and health equity studies.
• Collect, enter, maintain, and assist with analysis of research data using Excel, REDCap, SPSS, or similar software.
• Assist with IRB materials, protocol amendments, continuing reviews, and study documentation.
• Communicate with clinical, laboratory, community, and research teams regarding study activities.
• Assist Principal Investigators in the preparation and grant materials, manuscripts, abstracts, reports, and presentations.
• Coordinate research calendars, meetings, project timelines, staff/trainee recruitment efforts, and study-related deliverables.
• Track project purchasing, supply needs, spending, and study-related expenses.

Benefits

• health, dental, and vision insurance
• health expense accounts with generous employer contributions
• Employer-paid life insurance
• long-term disability insurance
• various additional voluntary insurance plans
• Paid time off, including vacation and sick
• ten paid holidays
• One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment
• paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave
• A retirement program with a generous employer contribution
• additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b)