Senior Research Assistant / Day / 40 Hrs / Channing Division of Network Medicine
The Pulmonary Genetics Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is dedicated to diagnosing, counseling and managing patients with all forms of lung disease, including rare genetic causes. The Dept. is engaged in a multifaceted program that includes both clinical and research efforts related to a variety of conditions including asthma, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis obliterans, primary ciliary dyskinesia, lung disease due to immunologic and autoimmune disorders, congenital hypoventilation syndromes, and congenital airway abnormalities. The Department’s unique bench-to-bedside approach allows us to fast-forward scientific discoveries – taking them directly from the research phase to our patients.
The Sr. Research Assistant will report directly to the Research Operations Manager, and will provide ongoing support for all day-to-day activities of several research initiatives. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for an individual who is motivated to work in an innovative academic center on cutting edge pulmonary genetics research, and is interested in working directly with patients.
PRINCIPLE DUTIES:
- Oversee collaborative venture with key external partner; excellent at relationship-building
- Management: Supervising work distribution and workflow among RAs, overseeing IRB document quality and timeliness of submission, interfacing with information security and privacy teams, providing weekly reports to BWH and SRA team on overall work progress
- Recruitment: Overseeing overall recruitment strategy, implementing RPDR and RedCap recruitment tactics, maintains screening and enrollment logs, assisting RA team in weekly recruitment efforts.
- Enrollment Visit and Onboarding: Overseeing enrollment visit and onboarding process, device management and troubleshooting, assisting in weekly enrollment and onboarding processes
- Study Management: Reviews overall study management, oversees check-in visit completion, oversees end of study interview and device collection, oversees subject reimbursement, maintain study logs, assist RA team in weekly study tasks.
- Data quality: performs periodic data quality checks and works with RA team to address any missing data or issues with data quality.
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of directly related, progressively responsible experience
- Supervisory experience preferred
- Excellent interpersonal skills in a clinical setting, and the ability to communicate and relate effectively with diverse groups of patients, clinical personnel, and research staff via in-person, phone, and email communications
- Extremely mature, dependable, and independent
- Ability to approach projects in a responsible, thoughtful, and thorough manner
- Highly self-motivated and proactive; Able to identify, track, and drive issue resolution with minimal supervision or prompting
- Able to take direction from a wide variety of individuals at all levels, including Principal Investigator, and other study collaborators and technical staff
- Motivated to learn new processes and procedures, as-needed
- Detail oriented with excellent organizational, communication, problem-solving and time management skills