Research Associate

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 62,400-62,400

Position Summary

The School of Nursing is seeking a detail-oriented Research Associate to provide support for federally funded projects focusing on HIV prevention and management. This position will be hybrid including both in-person and virtual work.

Responsibilities

The selected candidate will be expected to work on research focused on digital health and HIV/ AIDS.

Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator, the Associate will be responsible for a broad range of research and administrative activities. Other duties will include:

• Providing daily support for research projects, including recruiting subjects, enrolling study participants, and scheduling other research-related meetings.
• Assisting in the staffing of research study visits, including overseeing logistics, communicating with participants, and preparing materials for both staff and participant use.
• Conducting observations and collecting survey data on enrolled study participants.
• Experience working with confidential data and maintaining confidentiality, privacy, and integrity in professional interactions.
• Handling data entry and database management.
• Assisting with research and manuscript preparation for publication and dissemination of results, including conducting literature searches, article summaries, and basic coding and analysis.
• Contributing to the development of study-related documents and/or materials.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

This is a grant funded position and continued employment is contingent upon grant funding.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication, organizational, and database management skills.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative data analytic skills.
• Computer fluency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and statistical software. (SPSS/SAS/Stata/R).
• Ability to organize and perform multiple tasks and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Available nights and weekends.
• Interest in developing health information technology, public health LGBT health, HIV prevention or management, and/or health informatics.
• Experience working on research involving the LGBT community, people living with HIV, or other vulnerable and diverse populations.
• Experience conducting observational or survey data collection.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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