Clinical Research Assistant II
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Hourly Salary:
$ 23 - 34
Posted on:
4 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
Our teams research is dedicated to understanding and improving the access affordability and value of ambulatory care in the US. Topics include primary care payment delivery and policy innovation; telemedicine; burdens of care faced by older adults; low-value care and its downstream consequences; and physician gender equity (See here for an overview). We are looking for a full-time Research Assistant (RA) (40 hours/week hybrid/remote with flexible hours) to help us with this work. The Research Assistant II (RA II) will work closely with Dr. Ganguli and her team which includes collaborators at a range of institutions such as Brown School of Public Health the Harvard School of Public Health RAND and Oregon Health & Science University. The RA will participate in research and other publications as a co-author present research and be mentored by Dr. Ganguli and the team. The RA will also have opportunities to assist Dr. Ganguli in writing articles for newspapers and other media outlets and to interface with her work on national primary care affiliation with the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care (DGIM) the RA II will have numerous opportunities for training and career development for example by attending conferences and participating in division-wide RA activities.Qualifications
GENERAL SUMMARY/ OVERVIEW STATEMENT:
Our teams research is dedicated to understanding and improving the access affordability and value of ambulatory care in the US. Topics include primary care payment delivery and policy innovation; telemedicine; burdens of care faced by older adults; low-value care and its downstream consequences; and physician gender equity (Seeherefor an overview). We are looking for a full-time Research Assistant (RA) (40 hours/week hybrid/remote with flexible hours) to help us with this work. The Research Assistant II (RA II) will work closely with Dr. Ganguli and her team which includes collaborators at a range of institutions such as Brown School of Public Health the Harvard School of Public Health RAND and Oregon Health & Science University. The RA will participate in research and other publications as a co-author present research and be mentored by Dr. Ganguli and the team. The RA will also have opportunities to assist Dr. Ganguli in writing articles for newspapers and other media outlets and to interface with her work on national primary care affiliation with the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care (DGIM) the RA II will have numerous opportunities for training and career development for example by attending conferences and participating in division-wide RA activities.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Over the course of a research project the RA will:
- Help to prepareInstitutional Review Board(IRB) review documents
- Manage projects and workflows (schedule conference calls and meetings prepare agendas and pre/post-meeting materials; keep various study teams on weekly monthly and yearly schedules)
- Conduct literature reviews and manage citations with Zotero
- Use Excel to collect construct clean and link data sets and perform descriptive analyses
- Learn and apply statistical methods such as linear regression matching and quasi-experimental designs using statistical software such as STATA or R
- Prepare PowerPoint presentations posters figures tables and other data visualizations (creativity encouraged!)
- Assist in writing and formatting research manuscripts for publication
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelors Degree ideally with planned or current enrollment in health policy health professional or public health graduate school.
- An interest in health care and health care policy ideally with plans to go into health services or health policy research.
SKILLS/ ABILITIES/ COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:
- Experience with MS Office applications including Word Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience with programming software (STATA R)
- Data visualization
- Familiarity withresearch citation managers such as Zotero preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Ability to think critically work independently and meet deadlines
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Pay Range
$23.80 - $34.81/HourlyGrade
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At Mass General Brigham our competency framework defines what effective leadership looks like by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance make hiring decisions identify development needs mobilize employees across our system and establish a strong talent pipeline.
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Junior IC
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About Company
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