The Coordinating Center for the Major Extremity Trauma and Rehabilitation Consortium (METRC) housed in the Department of Health Policy and Management is looking for an on-call Research Assistant to support the reporting and analyses for clinical trials and observational studies in Orthopaedic trauma and rehabilitation. This is a casual, on-call position.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities:
The Research Assistant will assist research data collection and management activities. Primary responsibilities are as follows:
- Collaborate with assigned study teams to produce weekly study progress reports
- Compose queries utilizing both custom R functions and pre-formatted generators to flag study issues at the individual data point level for each assigned study
- Proactively seek to improve or optimize data workflows within assigned study teams
- Utilize and update the system to track the logical framing of research concepts across the center's ongoing studies and then map those concepts to fields found in common study forms
- Design functions that work within the automatic reporting system that produce visualizations based on combinations of research concepts
- Assist in the maintenance of a Python Flask web server on the Google Cloud Platform that automates the collection of external administrative information and constructs and hosts on-demand study progress & query reports
- Communicate with Sr. Programmer Analysts and Data Managers regularly with respect to data management related issues
Other Potential Responsibilities:
- As skills are mastered, share in teaching other or new data-centric Research Assistants
- Write detailed documentation/specifications for both existing and to-be-built research applications
- Create tables and figures in publication-quality form summarizing the results of statistical analyses and present results orally to study investigators
Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):
- Bachelor's Degree in related discipline.
- Some related experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- The applicant must have experience using some form of GIT, basic programming skills in R/SAS/STATA, and basic website backend skills in Python/Node.
- Internship or similar experience helping with programming tasks and/or data analysis, preferably in a research setting.
- The applicant should also have strong organizational, communication, and writing skills.
JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for the required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.
Classified Title: Research Assistant
Working Title: Research Assistant - Major Extremity Trauma & Rehabilitation Consortium
Role/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/03/CD
Starting Salary Range: $16.42 - $22.57/hr (commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Casual / On Call
Schedule: no more than 27hrs per wk
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt
Location: School of Public Health
Department name: Health Policy & Management -METRC
Personnel area: School of Public Health
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
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