Description: The Clinical Research Assistant provides support to faculty, Housestaff, and academic leaders in preparing scientific and medical writings, including grants, articles and proposals. This job also supports the Office of Research and Scholarly Activity within the Department of Academic Affairs and/or assigned department.
Typical Duties
1. Assists the Sr. Research Associate with biostatistics supporting individual department residents and staff.
2. Supports research infrastructure within the assigned academic departments in JPS, including but not limited to data collection, development and expansion of research databases and contact with external agencies; develops research dictionary for studies.
3. Assists the Sr. Research Associate and program faculty in grant writing utilizing statistical software and word software.
4. Assists assigned department teaching faculty and residents in scholarly activities in research, database management, literature review, and writing for publications.
5. Coordinates with assigned academic department research team to ensure timely submissions, poster and abstract competitions, and grant applications by assisting with organizing data and formatting presentations, applications, etc.
6. Develops and coordinates efficient methods to arrange the timely and current status of all documentation and contacts including phone calls, correspondences, grants, reports, and contracts related to research and projects.
7. Prepares, types, updates and maintains all correspondence, proposals, reports and other documents, related to research and projects; generates and maintains computer database files to track research and subjects adhering to established deadlines.
8. Assists in coordinating and tracking of research projects and scholarly activities using the Scholarly Activity Report as a standard.
9. Assists in the preparation of PowerPoint presentations, research posters and abstracts for presentation at local, state and national meetings.
10. Assist in preparing IRB forms for research investigators.
11. Coordinates the setup of clinical trials within the assigned department including budget development and identifying contacts and stakeholders that might be involved in the clinical trials agreement.
12. Prepares documents and serves as a non-voting member for the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
13. Reviews medical charts and files of study subjects for compliance and inclusion of required documentation.
14. Performs other related job duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required Education and Experience:
· MS or MPH in Biostatistics or related field from an accredited University.
· 2 plus years of experience with Database software (Statistical Packages for the Social Studies, Statistical analysis System or similar statistical tool).
Preferred Education and Experience:
· Masters of Public Degree or equivalent Masters level research degree from an accredited University.
Required Licensure/Certification/Specialized Training:
· Human Subjects protection training every two years.
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