Research Coordinator/Sr. Research Coordinator

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Research Coordinator/Sr. Research Coordinator

Job Profile Title

Research Coordinator

Job Description Summary

This role coordinates the day-to-day operations for several research protocols. They will be responsible for the abstraction of complex medical data in order to determine study eligibility. Manage data using different tools, systems and statistical software package and submit protocol modifications and continuing reviews to the IRB as needed, perform literature review, and write reports and sections of grant proposals and manuscripts for publication.

Job Description

The Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and The Parity Center seek a Research Coordinator/Senior Research Coordinator to support multiple research projects. The Research Coordinator will be responsible for implementing day-to-day operations for health policy data analysis projects and randomized controlled trials. This role may be asked to work with a variety of data sources including private insurer data, Medicare data, and or VA data. The research coordinator will support the research team by fulfilling client deliverables on a timely basis to meet project deadlines; this will include leading the development of deliverables (proposals, policy briefs, literature reviews, etc.) to be shared externally. This person will also work with the Project Manager to manage the data teams and produce the final data reports, tables, and presentation materials to be shared externally. The research coordinator will coordinate with the Project Manager to manage IRB protocols, manuscript preparation and submission, project timelines, and organize team meetings, including internal meetings and external meetings at project sites. The research coordinator may be asked to assist with preparation of data use agreements and to manage and update Center or project related social media accounts. This person may be asked to travel to external sites to participate in study design meetings, team retreats, to check in on stu