RESEARCH ASSISTANT, School of Public Health, Department of Health, Law, Policy and Management

Boston, NH - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Research Assistant (RA) will work on clinical research studies funded by the National Institutes of Health. Studies primarily focus on substance use disorder and include observational cohort studies and randomized controlled trials. The primary responsibility of the Research Assistant is to screen recruit enroll and interview research participants for the purpose of collecting study data. The Research Assistant will also track participants over time and conduct follow-up interviews and data collection. Additionally the Research Assistant will assist with the development of protocols standard operating procedures reports forms and assessments perform data entry and quality control procedures for the ongoing research and provide administrative support to the study (i.e. scheduling meetings preparing and circulating meeting agendas and meeting minutes for regular study team meetings filing study-related documents etc).

The ideal candidate will have a bachelors degree and will have a strong interest in issues surrounding alcohol and other drug use and a desire to work with populations impacted by substance use.

The study team is based in the Department of Health Law Policy & Management at Boston University School of Public Health.

Required Skills

Bachelors degree with 1-3 years of related experience.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color natural or protective hairstyle religion sex age national origin physical or mental disability sexual orientation gender identity genetic information military service pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition or because of marital parental or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Required Experience:

Junior IC