Research Assistant II - Psychiatry
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Kennedy Krieger Institute
Baltimore, MD, US
Summary
The Research Assistant II provides administrative and research support, including patient recruitment and screening for psychiatric studies. They are responsible for maintaining research records, performing data entry, and assisting with grant applications and manuscript preparation.
Job Description
Overview
The Research Assistant II will provide research and administrative support to department, studies, and Institute initiatives. The incumbent will assist with recruitment of research patients, maintain a good working knowledge of study protocols and adhere to all protocol requirements, perform data entry and database tasks, coordinate and schedule program and research-related meetings, and create reports and data visualizations.
Responsibilities
1. Assist with recruitment of patients with psychiatric disorders and developmental disabilities such as anxiety disorders and autism spectrum disorders, as well as healthy control children, establishing contacts with various community sources and distributing study materials. 2. Assist in screening affected and control patients for study enrollment. 3. Maintain accurate and up-to-date research records for study databases. Ensure appropriate data quality assurance procedures are implemented and adhered to, troubleshooting as needed.4. Provide administrative support including, but not limited to, scheduling meetings for clinicians, researchers, and staff; filing; organizing; typing; formatting; proofreading and copyediting research and program materials; creating PowerPoint presentations and data visualizations.5. Update existing recruitment literature (brochures, information packets, posters, WebPages) and create similar documents for new research protocols as they arise.6. Assist with literature reviews, manuscript preparation, and submission of National Institutes of Health (NIH) and/or private foundations grant applications.7. Assist in administration of psychiatric and psychological tests and eye tracking protocols, as well as obtaining mock and real Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.8. Attend meetings involved with research grants, contracts, faculty, committees, coordination, and administration. Take meeting minutes and distribute minutes post-meeting.9. Assist with organizing and scheduling lectures for supported programs.
Qualifications
EDUCATION:Bachelor’s degree required.
EXPERIENCE:• Previous experience with research design, statistical analysis, and test scoring preferred.• Previous administrative support experience preferred.
Minimum pay range
USD $40,043.12/Yr.
Maximum pay range
USD $66,204.53/Yr.
We provide assessment and treatment on an outpatient basis at our facilities at Broadway and Triad, at schools and in-home, as well as consultation services to hospitals and other community-based programs. Our inpatient programs, the Neuro-Behavioral Unit and Pediatric Feeding Disorders Program serve as models of treatment in a medical setting. We are committed to providing the best possible outcomes for children, families, their support systems and their communities through assessment, treatment, parent training, educational and consultative services.
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Healthcare
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Columbia, Maryland
We provide assessment and treatment on an outpatient basis at our facilities at Broadway and Triad, at schools and in-home, as well as consultation services to hospitals and other community-based programs. Our inpatient programs, the Neuro-Behavioral Unit and Pediatric Feeding Disorders Program serve as models of treatment in a medical setting. We are committed to providing the best possible outcomes for children, families, their support systems and their communities through assessment, treatment, parent training, educational and consultative services.
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Healthcare
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Columbia, Maryland
