Clinical Research Assistant-Center for Adolescent Behavioral Health

• Recruits and obtains consent from participants for research studies through survey administration, personal interviews (in-person or remotely), and/or written communications. Please note: 1) This study requires reimbursed travel between study sites in the Boston area. 2) This study requires occasional evening and weekend availability.
• Serves as liaison to the participants in the research studies, guiding and advising them throughout each phase of the study.
• Develops materials seen and used by research participants, such as designing recruitment advertisements and programming study surveys.
• Manages study data and documentation, including completed surveys, informed consent forms, study tracking logs, and staff training logs.
• Helps to coordinate members of the Boston Children's Hospital study team and their collaborators to ensure rigorous study implementation.
• Performs literature searches, assists with data entry/cleaning/analysis, and supports scientific manuscript preparation for journal publication on topics related to ongoing research.
• Assists with Institutional Review Board submissions and with annual reports and other documents required by grant(s).
• Manages and supports updating of websites related to CABHRe, making sure they are in compliance with grant-specific and BCH policies.
• Assist with administrative tasks and other projects as needed.
  

• Bachelor's degree in public health, education, psychology, social sciences or biological sciences field and relevant work/research experience.

• Experience and interest in adolescent health, public health, psychology, tobacco/nicotine, substance use, epidemiology, and statistical methods preferred.
• Excellent verbal communication skills essential.
• Excellent writing skills essential.
• Ability to maintain participant data confidentiality and adhere to study protocol.
• Experience and comfort using computer applications (Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) (essential), data collection and management tools (Qualtrics, REDCap) (preferred), statistical software (SPSS, etc.) (preferred), and website management tools (preferred).
• Ability to take initiative, work without direct supervision, multi-task, work on multiple projects with changing deadlines.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.