Research Specialist III, Research Support (Part-time 20 hours) Durational with Benefits

About the role

This is a fully benefited, durational position (indefinite - no end date) requiring 2-3 days of travel per week to meet with research participants at other local facilities.

Responsibilities

• Pursues effective relationships with coworkers and members.
• Learns from change, challenges, and feedback; adapts to new tasks and processes.
• Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
• Conducts research surveys, focus groups, qualitative interviews, or other data gathering activities for moderately complex projects.
• Trains others on project support activities (e.g., data collection, administering informed consent, conducting procedures).
• Prepares open-ended/qualitative data for analysis and builds analytical datasets.
• Prepares data reports and identifies data quality issues.
• Performs complex tasks related to the recruitment, enrollment, consenting, and follow-up with participants.
• Answers participant questions regarding basic and/or complex studies and escalates issues if necessary.
• Drafts study materials (e.g., recruitment, data collection, retention) in a variety of formats including online.
• Aids in the documentation and reporting of research study activities by assisting the development of tools, systems, and forms for project tracking and documentation.
• Maintains compliance for handling research data by following federal and local regulations, standard operating procedures, and IRB approved protocols.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Health Care Administration, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Social or Behavioral Sciences, Health Services, Statistics, or Health Economics, or related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in health research, public health, laboratory or social science research setting, epidemiology, social or behavioral sciences, health services or a directly related field.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in health research, public health, laboratory or social science research setting, epidemiology, social or behavioral sciences, health services or a directly related field.
• Master's degree in Public Health, Health Care Administration, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Social or Behavioral Sciences, Health Services, Statistics, or Health Economics, or related field preferred.