Clinical Research Assistant

Status

Full-Time

Standard Hours per Week

40

Job Posting Category

Research

Job Posting Description

Position Summary:
We are looking for a talented, motivated Clinical Research Assistant who is eager to learn and work in a quickly adaptive environment to join Dr. Scott Snapper’s Lab in the IBD Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. You will be working with a team of clinical research coordinators in a collaborative, pre-professional environment and will be involved in an exciting area of research that is focused on better understanding the genetic and environmental factors that lead to the pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. To advance our understanding of this complex disease, we leverage expertise in gastroenterology, mucosal immunology, genomics/bioinformatics, and translational medicine.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinating various clinical and translational research studies.
• Recruiting and enrolling study participants in an inpatient and outpatient clinical setting.
• Collecting and processing of biological specimens.
• Completing data entry for active studies.
• Assisting with the analysis of clinical metadata compiled through various databases.
• Performing a variety of innovative translational and clinical research studies.
• Depending on need and interest, involvement in studies related to analysis of human sequence data, as well as translational research techniques.

 
Minimum Qualifications
Education:

• A Bachelor's degree in a scientific or health related field is required.

Experience:

• The analytical skills to resolve problems that require the use of basic scientific, mathematical, or technical principles.
• Enjoy working in a collaborative setting with existing team members.
• Effective communication skills with parents/study participants to explain the research protocol, to obtain informed consent, to obtain accurate information from them, and to provide them with accurate information.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to handle challenging and potentially competing priorities in a fast-paced setting.

Office/Site Location

Boston

Regular, Temporary, Per Diem

Regular

Remote Eligibility

Part Remote/Hybrid

Pay Range

$41246.40-$61339.20 Annual