Research Assistant II - Psychiatry

Responsibilities

• Aid in recruiting research patients, particularly those with psychiatric disorders and developmental disabilities like anxiety disorders and autism spectrum disorders, as well as healthy control children.
• Establish contacts with various community sources and distribute study materials.
• Screens affected and control patients for study enrollment.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date research records for study databases.
• Ensure appropriate data quality assurance procedures are implemented and adhered to, troubleshooting as needed.
• Provide administrative support including, but not limited to, scheduling meetings, filing, organizing, typing, formatting, proofreading, and copyediting research and program materials.
• Create PowerPoint presentations and data visualizations.
• Update existing recruitment literature and create similar documents for new research protocols.
• Assist with literature reviews, manuscript preparation, and submission of NIH and/or private foundations grant applications.
• Assist in administering psychiatric and psychological tests and obtaining mock and real fMRI scans.
• Attend meetings related to research grants, contracts, faculty, committees, coordination, and administration.
• Take meeting minutes and distribute them post-meeting.
• Absorb and organize lectures for supported programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Previous experience with research design, statistical analysis, and test scoring preferred.
• Previous administrative support experience preferred.