Human Subject Research Spec I

Responsibilities

• Conduct participant screening for the research studies.
• Conduct telephone calls and in-person conversations to screen potential participants for eligibility and gauge interest in a study.
• Conduct detailed screening surveys and use own judgment to determine if subject is eligible.
• Schedule home visits with family, and coordinate schedules with other staff to conduct home visits.
• Organize and maintain all screening data in a database.
• Conduct subject enrollment for the research studies.
• Travel to appropriate sites for subject recruitment, including homes, emergency departments, clinics, and schools.
• Explain study in detail and answer all participants' questions.
• Obtain written informed consent from caregivers and verbal assent from children.
• Conduct interviews and administer surveys to participants.
• Collect breathing measurements (spirometry, eNO), height/weight, and saliva samples from child/adolescent participants.
• Work with children/adolescents to assure comfort with and accuracy of data collection.
• Maintain subject documentation, including memorandums and letters.
• Provide enrollment updates at weekly study meeting, and provide updates daily to director, senior specialists and research nurse.
• Ensure timely follow-up data collection for the research studies.
• Conduct telephone, Zoom and in-person (home, school, etc.) interviews to collect follow-up survey data with participants.
• Communicate with primary care, specialty care, and school nurse offices to obtain asthma-related health information.
• Conduct medical record reviews using electronic health records.
• Data collection, data entry, and data maintenance.
• Collect data from interviews and other sources from asthma studies.
• Perform on-site validity checks of data and obtains clarification as needed.
• Verify study related information and review subject records to ensure complete and accurate data.
• Enter data into database.
• Run reports from database and prepare documents for IRB, NIH and DSMB reporting.
• Oversee data cleaning procedures (reviewing and correcting other team members' data collection forms).
• Oversee audit preparations for IRB/NIH (ensuring information and subject files are up to date and complete).
• Assist with database creation, edits and general maintenance.
• Independently create tables and coding schematic for the databases.
• Help to hire, train and supervise research staff.
• Conduct interviews and assist with hiring of student research assistants.
• Assist with organizing and conducting training sessions for the multiple aspects of the asthma interventions including survey administration and data entry.
• Assist in supervising daily student activities including, delegating tasks, reviewing progress, and providing additional training when needed.
• Assist with interviews and training of regular full-time staff.
• Assist with compiling and disseminating information learned from research studies.
• Aid in data analysis using SPSS or Excel, conduct bivariate and multivariate analysis.
• Manuscript preparation - draft abstracts and manuscripts.
• Grant support - assist in preparation of grant materials.
• Presentation preparation - independently organize and design presentations (lectures and posters).
• Conduct literature reviews on related topics using resources provided (library, Ovid Medline and other online sources), as needed.
• Communication With Study Participants, Stakeholders, And Other Study-related Personnel.
• Create and mail study newsletters to families and nurses.
• Maintain subject documentation, including memorandums and letters.
• Organize subject samples and mail samples to laboratory for analysis; maintain sample results.
• Communicate with school nurses, school administrators, and medical providers regarding study.
• Attend weekly study meetings and discuss study related issues and provide insightful suggestions for improvement.

Essential Functions

• Must have reliable/efficient transportation to travel to schools, homes, pediatric offices and other local sites.
• Spanish Speaking is a plus.

Minimum Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree with major course work in social or technical field or Associate’s degree and completion of 6 months in the Human Subject Research Coordinator Trainee Program required.
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience in human subject research coordination required.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills required.
• Must be flexible, empathetic, and able to engage effectively with diverse populations required.
• Demonstrate efficiency in prioritizing assignments, as well as skill in proactively and independently resolving problems in the field, and recommending/implementing continuous quality improvements required.
• Possess good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook required.