Research Program Assisant - Johns Hopkins Hospital : Job Details

The Coordinating Center for the Major Extremity Trauma and Rehabilitation Consortium (METRC) housed in the Department of Health Policy and Management is looking for an on-call Research Program Assistant to support the reporting and analyses for clinical trials and observational studies in orthopaedic trauma and rehabilitation. This is a casual, on-call position, up to 27 hours per week. The primary duties are described below.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• The Research Assistant will support research data collection and management activities.
• Manage datasets/variables and perform data cleaning.
• Merge, create and recode variables to prepare data for analyses.
• Develop data cleaning programs for new forms and run data cleaning programs for existing forms.
• Develop and implement data quality assurance procedures to ensure validity and reliability of study results.
• Create analysis datasets for use by other investigators.
• Serve as a quality control checkpoint person for analyses when needed.
• Responsible for maintaining the integrity and security of data during data processing.
• Proactively seek to improve or optimize workflow and discuss with coordinator/supervisor as appropriate.
• Communicate with the Director of Informatics regularly with respect to data quality related issues.

Other potential responsibilities

• Develop analytical code for use in a highly collaborative environment.
• Write detailed documentation/specifications for analysis data sets and related files.
• Perform and document analyses on large, complex datasets using statistical software packages. Work with investigators to in the performance of analyses.
• Create tables and figures in publication-quality form summarizing the results of statistical analyses and present results orally to study investigators.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or graduation equivalent, with some college courses preferred.
• Some related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Internship or similar experience helping with programming tasks and/or data analysis, preferably in a research setting.
• Bachelor's degree in related discipline.

Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• The candidate should have excellent organizational, communication and writing skills.
• Programming skills in R/SAS/STATA strongly preferred.
• Prior experience working with large data sets, creating programs and generating tables, strongly preferred.

Classified Title: Research Program AssistantRole/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/02/CBStarting Salary Range: Min $15.00 - Max $22.50 HRLY ($36,855 budgeted; Commensurate with experience)Employee group: Casual / On CallSchedule: otherExempt Status: Non-ExemptLocation: RemoteDepartment name: Health Policy & Management - METRCPersonnel area: School of Public Health

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Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

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