Research Associate IV

About the Role

The Research Associate IV will report to the Manager, Quality Measurement Programs (QMP) at the Yale/Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). CORE is a leading national outcomes research center dedicated to transforming healthcare through data, analytics, and technology. This role provides advanced project coordination to multidisciplinary technical teams, ensuring high-quality deliverables meet deadlines for complex projects. The position may also involve project management support, including executing project plans, budgets, and stakeholder interactions, or providing subject-matter expertise by co-leading technical teams. Remote work is available if it meets business needs and adheres to the YNHH Alternate Work Schedule policy.

Responsibilities

• Provides advanced project coordination for complex projects according to internal and external timelines, ensuring deliverables meet contract deadlines.
• Proactively identifies risks to timelines and suggests solutions.
• Schedules, prepares for, and facilitates focused meetings with internal CORE teams and external organizations.
• Facilitates communication within project teams, to project leadership, and with external organizations.
• Delegates work and serves as a resource to junior staff by reviewing and guiding the quality of their work.
• Drafts, reviews, formats, and proofs high-quality documents for stakeholder dissemination or public posting.
• Engages substantively with Task Leads to create and finalize deliverables, ensuring accuracy in content and formatting.
• Prepares and facilitates effective meetings, summarizing highly technical information and drafting and tracking timelines, action items, and decisions.
• Monitors the status of project documents and deliverables weekly, tracking decisions and action items to completion.
• Provides training and onboarding to new staff on project teams.
• Identifies opportunities to improve workflow or efficiencies and supports or implements appropriate actions.
• Fills in for the team lead role and/or co-leads technical project teams when necessary.
• Provides project management support on teams as needed.

Qualifications

Education: A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in public health, epidemiology, healthcare, human services, or a related field is required. A master’s degree is preferred.

Experience: A minimum of four (4) years of experience, with at least 2 years in a coordination role or having coordinator duties in a paid research setting. A master’s degree may substitute for 2 years of work experience.

Skills

• Knowledge of research methodology, protocols, and survey methods.
• Excellent writing, organizational, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in research processes and computer software packages such as MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, and EndNote.