Research Coordinator 3

Responsibilities

• Directly coordinate or support specific research projects (45%).
• Manage procedural/compliance with research sponsor requirements including:
  • Preparation and submission of project status/final reports (e.g., via eRA Commons);
  • Data archive submissions;
  • Clinical trial registration/updates.
• Provide overarching leadership and coordination surrounding all aspects of BRiTE’s global digital health research program:
  • Contribute to ongoing strategic planning for the research program;
  • Identify ways to build/enhance program cohesion, climate, and effective team collaboration;
  • Liaise and collaborate with other BRiTE Center teams.
• Lead new project startup and management activities within BRiTE, such as:
  • IRB application preparation and submission;
  • Determine staffing needs;
  • When necessary, initiate and manage hiring processes for new staff, in collaboration with the BRiTE faculty lead;
  • Construct detailed, internally facing project timelines.
• Track and project budget statuses, with support from PBSCI post-award support staff:
  • Track specific budget expenses, reimbursements, and coordinate as needed with PBSCI post-award supports and finance specialists;
  • Anticipate budget spenddown needs and design spenddown plans.
• Continue own professional development surrounding program coordination, management, supervision, and related activities.
  • This may involve periodic participation in trainings, seminars, and courses.
• Supervise the activities of research staff working on BRiTE Center projects, provide feedback and guidance to operational staff, and serve as designated supervisor to junior research coordinators and trainees.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Psychology, global health, public health, or a related field and four years of relevant experience.
  • Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.
  • Experience with supporting multiple research studies simultaneously, completing institutional review board (IRB) applications, and supervising research staff, strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to think critically to anticipate project needs.
  • Master's Degree in Psychology, global health, public health, or a related field.
  • Experience working on projects involving people with serious mental illness and/or global health projects with international stakeholders (e.g., experience in West Africa would be particularly relevant).
  • Experience supporting digital intervention/mobile health development and research.
  • Experience working with collaborators from diverse professional backgrounds (e.g., technologists, community mental health providers, paraprofessionals).
  • Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, national, socioeconomic, and other backgrounds.

    About the Role

    The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department within the School of Medicine with 330 full-time faculty members, 460 courtesy faculty members, and over 350 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond.

    The BRiTE Center is an exciting, mission-driven, highly collaborative, and intellectually stimulating work environment. BRiTE faculty and staff work in teams taking on challenging projects in the U.S. and globally. The position will involve collaborations with research groups within the center, across the country, and internationally.

    The BRiTE Center Research Coordinator 3 position will be the staff supervisor and lead research coordinator of multi-year programs of research dedicated to deploying digital health interventions designed to improve mental health outcomes in the U.S. and West Africa. This position has a high degree of responsibility for achieving the research and training goals of multiple initiatives simultaneously.

    The research coordinator must also understand the complexities associated with conducting mental health services research in public mental health services settings with participants from diverse ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds. Additional complexities come from: Working with multiple Principal Investigators / faculty; Managing IRB requirements; managing database needs and construction and the staff who utilize them; Summary and presentation of data to analysts; General trouble shooting (e.g., study problem identification and problem-solving solutions); Liaising with community, national, and international partners.

    This position is critical to advancing the research and community impact missions of the university, the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and the BRiTE Center by managing multiple research projects focused on improving mental health outcomes and ethical care of individuals with serious mental illness.