Description
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital is seeking a Full Time Research Coordinator to support the Dr. John Harris’s research group!
The research group of Dr. John Harris is recruiting a research coordinator to support multiple externally funded disability-related health service research projects. Our group seeks to engage, understand, and improve the health of people with disabilities experiencing pivotal health events. Some projects include how disability interacts with obesity to affect health care delivery in long-term care settings (home health, nursing homes, hospice) and how disability affects people’s reproductive health knowledge and education needs.
This position will work Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm. This position offers a hybrid schedule! Hours are subject to change based on business needs.
This position is grant funded.
This Research Coordinator position will involve developing tools to help build relationships with the community to facilitate enrollment of participants into clinical studies, developing metrics and tools for evaluation of clinical research sites. This role will prepare evaluation reports that summarize the effectiveness of sites and of other network processes.
Responsibilities:
- Revise, renew and maintain IRE approval, protocols, and consent forms for studies.
- Recruit subjects for ongoing and new research studies.
- Assist in hypothesis generation, data collection, data analysis and data presentation and publication.
- Perform literature reviews and generate material needed for future studies.
- Designs and implements evaluation of processes, including evaluation of clinical site performance, evaluation of laboratory processes, protocol development, study implementation, etc.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of experience and training acceptable - including experience in process evaluation or coordinating multiple aspects of research projects (study participant recruitment, assessment, and data collection,) required.
- Master's degree preferred.
- Experience with NIH funded research, qualitative research, long-term care services or research, disability services or research, or manuscript preparation preferred
- Experience with REDCAP databases, IRB applications, Stata, SAS, or R statistical software suites preferred
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- Act 34 with renewal
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minority/Females/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
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