University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Center for Bioethics and Humanities

Job Title: Professional Research Assistant

Position #: 00846529 – Requisition #:39591

Job Summary:

We are seeking a professional research assistant (PRA) to contribute to our vibrant research program. We at CBH are committed to sustaining our world-class research group that focuses on empirical, policy-relevant research on topics at the intersection of bioethics and health policy.  (https://www.cuanschutz.edu/centers/bioethicshumanities/research) 

Nature of Work
This position is responsible for supporting and executing research and evaluation projects under the direction of faculty at CBH. Competitive candidates will be detail-oriented, able to follow directions, and highly motivated to excel in a dynamic team environment.

Professional Field
This position is in the field of bioethics.

Examples of Work Performed

The primary responsibility of the PRA position will be to support research and evaluation projects through work such as: participant recruitment & retention, regulatory compliance, data collection & management, communications management, resource procurement and cost & project monitoring, and grant application support.  This position will be asked to support both qualitative and/or quantitative methodologic specialties. 

Project Support

• Keep meeting minutes
• Act as delegate for Principal Investigator (PI) and submit IRB applications
• Participate in the development of IRB protocols (e.g. formatting) for study activities (intervention, recruitment of patients and/or practices, primary and secondary data collection and management processes)
• Create simple data management and tracking tools (REDCap, ACCESS, Excel, NVivo, recruitment tracking, etc.) to support tracking of project/program activities (e.g. incentive distribution; sending, receiving, and cleaning audio files for transcription, etc)
• Support search and set up procurement for vendors needed for project/program activities
• Conduct PubMed Searches to support literature reviews
• Create references for publications
• Carry out basic research activities with PM / PI oversight (e.g. recruit study participants)
• Support publication development (manuscript/poster/presentation) formatting text, tables, figures, adding identified references to publications, etc.
• Support manuscript submission
• Support development of intervention materials (e.g. health communication messages) and research materials (e.g. surveys, interview protocols, chart review data collection form)
• Conduct data entry according to study protocol
• Conduct low complexity quantitative and quantitative research
• PRA 1 will be expected to work with limited independence and have a significant amount of supervision

Supervision Received