Research Assistant / Recruiter (.45 FTE)

Duties/Responsibilities:

Please note, this is a part-time position at 18 hours a week.

Participant Recruitment (50%):
*Achieve recruitment and enrollment goals to meet NIMH RMR requirements.
*Several times a year, attend public outreach events to provide the public with information about psychopathology research at UMN and to recruit participants.
*Coordinate UMN team presence at public outreach and participant recruitment events.
*Track attendance and outreach activities.
*Build and maintain databases for recruitment purposes
*Submit regulatory paperwork for outreach-related databases and activities
*Coordinate with web developer to update and maintain study materials on website.
*Design written materials for distribution at outreach events, along with written materials provided by lab
*Design and distribute promotional items at outreach events
*Coordinate social media presence for research study recruitment

Clinical Assessment (25%):
*Perform assessments of psychopathology and cognitive functioning of study participants
*Perform study consent process with participants
*Enter data as required from clinical and cognitive assessments
*Escort and flexibly work with participants to ensure collection of data of the highest quality
*Perform symptom ratings of participants at an acceptable level of accuracy and reliability
*Organize and lead calibration sessions for symptom ratings by study staff

Team meetings and regulatory document work (15%):
*Complete IRB and other required review committee applications
*Draft study-related documents
*Provide guidance and direction to team in order to ensure regulatory compliance
*Communicate with all University and hospital departments (and potentially with external agencies) to collect needed information for initiating new projects and opening new study research accounts.
*Facilitate continuing review compliance for IRB and annual reports for FDA and sponsors
*Track and communicate changes to protocol- specific requirements
*Update REDCap e-consent, Florence eBinders, OnCore

Study monitoring and process improvement (10%):
*Make recommendation for improvements to processes and initiate process improvement
*Communicate changes to processes in a clear and professional manner
*Fulfill special requests for data management and other duties as needed
*Prepare for and assist with internal and external monitoring visits

Required Qualifications:
*BA/BS degree in Neuroscience plus at least 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree plus at least two years of relevant experience, or a combination of education and relevant work experience to equal at least eight years.
*Experience working with patients with psychotic psychopathology in a research environment.

Preferred Qualifications:
*Experience in recruiting people with psychosis into the research studies, conducting clinical assessments, and managing regulatory documents as part of university-based research involving human subjects.
*Experience working in a UMN Research Lab.

To learn more about the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, please visit https://med.umn.edu/psychiatry.

Pay Range: $28.67/hr - $29.33/hr; depending on education/qualifications/experience.

Retirement plan options are available for Civil Service, Faculty, Labor-Represented, Professional & Administrative, and Temp Casual classifications. Learn more about retirement plans.

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