Clinical Research Assistant-The Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Med

• Assists with Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions, annual reports, other documents required by grant(s).
• Develops materials for research participants, such as designing recruitment ads and programming study surveys.
• Recruits participants through social media posting, flyering, personal outreach, and/or other recruitment venues, including through web-based panels.
• Enrolls participants and maintains documentation of consent.
• Serves as liaison to the participants in the research studies, guiding and advising them throughout each phase of the study. Please note that this requires some evening and weekend availability.
• Manages study data and documentation, including completed surveys, informed consent forms, study tracking logs, and staff training logs.
• Performs literature searches, assists with data entry/cleaning/analysis, and supports scientific manuscript preparation for journal publication on topics related to ongoing research.
• Helps to coordinate BCH studey team members and their collaborators to ensure rigorous study implementation.
• Assists with administrative tasks and other projects as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in public health, education, psychology, social sciences or biological sciences field is required.

• 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.