Job Description

Description

The UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics is seeking Clinical Trials Research Associate. This is a Specified Term position. This position is not eligible for university sponsorship for employment authorization.

The Research Associate will be responsible for several aspects of managing and coordinating major research studies. This may include reviewing medical records to identify potential subjects with autism, recruiting and consenting participant families, supporting a national recruitment program and online behavioral testing, data collected through the "BabySteps" research smartphone tool, performing basic behavioral tests, arranging for blood or buccal swab collection, organizing previously acquired data, and analyzing results. Specifically, blood and cheek cell samples will be analyzed to look for changes in epigenetic patterns over time, comparing newborn samples with those collected around the time of diagnosis. This position offers a rewarding combination of involvement in cutting-edge research, patient communication, and genetic and epigenetic analyses.

The Research Associate will be supervised by Dr. Lane Strathearn in the Attachment and Neurodevelopment laboratory, located in the Center for Disabilities and Development. The research is part of the Hawkeye Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (Hawk-IDDRC) and is funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Position Responsibilities:
• Assist in the design, development, execution, administration, and maintenance of protocols and clinical studies, and oversee data management.
• Assist in study design and protocol development and provide input into descriptions of complex research procedures.
• Oversee CRF development.
• Develop complex study materials.
• Serve as a liaison to local health care practitioners, agencies, and sponsors.
• Screen, recruit, enroll, and obtain informed consent for clinical trials and research studies, including families with a child who is being evaluated for possible autism and healthy subjects as research participants.
• Oversee the recruitment of subjects and scheduling of study procedures.
• Educate study participants on the scope of the study, potential risks and benefits, possible alternatives, and study requirements for participants.
• Relay information to the principal investigator and verify study participant eligibility.
• Participate in the design, development and testing of clinical research trials data systems.
• Assist families to provide questionnaire and videotaped data through a smartphone tool, from the mothers of patients and healthy participants.
• Validate data, query resolution, and make recommendations for resolution.
• Revise and implement change in data collection.
• Manage and organize regulatory documentation from regulatory authorities and prepare regulatory submissions.
• Perform on-site audits of research and clinical data.
• Develop procedures for on-site data audits; design and generate reports for use in data audits; summarize results of audits and write reports. Resolve all monitoring visit issues.
• Monitor compliance with regulatory guidelines and proper maintenance of documents.
• May recommend corrective action for reportable events.
• May communicate with IRB staff and investigators and assist with IRB submissions.
• May provide functional and/or administrative supervision.
• Mentor new staff under direction.
• Administer and/or monitor budget for studies.
• Assist with biological sample processing and genetic/epigenetic data analyses.
• Manage data sets and maintain highly organized and detailed research records.
• Help to prepare items for publication, such as figures and tables.
• Perform general administrative tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications
• Demonstrated experience in scientific research.
• Demonstrated ability to acquire new skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills are required.
• Demonstrated high level of organization with careful attention to detail is required.

Desirable Qualifications
• Graduate education in a field related to medicine or psychology
• Demonstrated experience entering data and managing research databases according to best practice.
• Experience with data management and programming packages, such REDCap and R.
• Demonstrated experience working with research subjects.
• Demonstrated experience with research subject recruitment.
• Demonstrated coursework and aptitude in statistics (e.g., SPSS, graphpad, prism).
• Demonstrated experience in study design, data base design and/or data analysis.

Education Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in a field relevant to life science or medical research such as psychology, biology, neuroscience, or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Position and Application Details:

In order to be considered for an interview, applicants must upload the following documents and mark them as a "Relevant File" to the submission:

Resume

Cover Letter

Job openings are posted for a minimum of 7 business days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification. Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.

For additional questions, please contact Pediatrics Human Resources at [click to reveal email address] pedsuichildrenshr@uiowa.edu

Job Tags

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