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This position is funded for 12 months; continuation past 12 months will be based on university need, performance, and/or availability of funding.

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POSITION SPECIFICS​

The Development, Risk and Resilience Lab, headed by Dr. Rina D. Eiden, and the REPEAT lab, headed by Dr. Emily Ansell, are seeking a full-time Clinical Research Coordinator for an NIH-funded longitudinal study on the role of maternal pre-postnatal substance use and co-occurring risks on parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent/young adult outcomes.

This is a continuation of a multi-method, longitudinal study of tobacco- and cannabis-exposed children and their mothers recruited in the first trimester of pregnancy.

The current phase of the study will examine social and emotional outcomes in adolescence/young adulthood including health experiences and risk behaviors, the parent-child relationship, social skills, and peer relationships.

Assessments will take place with families in early, middle, and late adolescence/young adulthood.

The Clinical Research Coordinator will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation of project aims and data management.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Track project goals, timelines, recruitment, and participant retention

• Maintain participant databases and coordinate across research sites

• Recruit and supervise project research assistants and undergraduate staff; assign tasks aligned with project objectives

• Ensure staff training and certification compliance

• Coordinate meetings, travel logistics, and IT support

• Develop and refine Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) protocols and procedure manuals

• Monitor project deliverables and generate progress reports

• Assist with Institutional Review Board (IRB) documentation, consent forms, and NIH data sharing requirements

• Participate in coding teams for observational data

• Create and manage multi-source datasets (interviews, surveys, physiological, observational)

• Perform data checking, cleaning, reduction, and creation of composite variables

• Develop codebooks, syntax files, and data dictionaries

• Conduct data collection sessions with parents, adolescents, and young a