Student Assistant for Joel Stoddard
Department: Psychiatry
Supervisor: Joel Stoddard, MD, Associate Professor
Position Purpose:
This is a part-time, Student Research Assistant position with the Department of Psychiatry, Division or Child and Adolescent Mental Health. This position serves to support project coordination in the Emotion and Development Laboratory (with Dr. Stoddard). This position interacts regularly with local staff to ensure timely and appropriate implementation of project tasks and addresses some regulatory requirements.
Job Description:
Manage study participants and coordinate lab personnel. (50%)
- Collaborate with clinical and research staff to ensure tests and procedures required by protocols are scheduled and performed correctly. (20%)
- Recruit and interview prospective participants. Familiarize potential participants with the details of the study through phone contacts, personal interviews, and informed consent. (5%)
- Manage research participants, coordinating all aspects of research requirements and physician support. (20%)
- Provide scheduling support. (5%)
Support regulatory compliance. (50%)
- Support application submissions to regulatory agencies, including IRB, Research Institute, and Federal Agency. (15%)
- Assure compliance with protocol details, complete necessary records, and accurately transfer source documentation into study databases. Maintain participant files and ensure compliance with records required for each study. (20%)
- Support lab members in ensuring regulatory compliance certifications are up to date. (4%)
- Recognize adverse and serious adverse events and provide prompt notification to the appropriate parties. (<1%)
- Prepare documentation for monitoring visits and audits. (4%)
- Manage regulatory binders and ensure proper documentation is filed appropriately. (7%)
Other duties and special projects as assigned but total duties are not to exceed 100% effort (see below).
These percentages of effort on specific duties are estimates and recognized to be diverse. Different percentages of time may be reflected by project stage, regulatory, participant, and funding cycle demands. Duties should be contained, e.g., should not exceed, a reasonable effort and within agreed upon part-time hours. Exceptions are rare events that ensure participant safety, e.g., reporting a serious adverse event to Dr. Stoddard.
Duties are only expected to be conducted in a reasonable business schedule unless exceptions are agreed on, e.g., flexible time or to accommodate participant school schedules. A hybrid remote/onsite work schedule is offered, with the understanding that in-office time or other efforts to promote team engagement is a priority for the lab.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must be a current student taking at least 6 credit hours (undergraduate) or 3 credit hours (graduate)
- Must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, and Word Must be dependable, detail-oriented, flexible, organized, willing to learn, possess the ability to multi-task, and have a professional demeanor.
- Must have solid written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and professionally via telephone and email.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- RedCap database management software experience.
- Experience with statistical programming, R and SPSS.
- Experience with online or computer based questionnaires and testing, e.g. Qualtrics, Testable, computer based interventions.
- Experience in research assistant roles in clinical trials, especially informed consent and meeting regulatory requirements.
- Experience in the assessment of behavioral interventions.
- Prior human subject ethics training.
Remarks:
The Student Assistant commits to showing up for work diligently and punctually, honesty, performing assigned tasks, following directions, taking initiative, reliability, confidentiality, checking work for thoroughness and accuracy with attention to detail, and interest in learning new skills, especially mandatory computer skills. Ideal candidates will be willing to work up to a maximum of 25 hours weekly.
Pay Range: $15 - $22/hr
Application Process: Cover letter and resume submitted to handshake