Research Assistant - Family Medicine

The UCLA Department of Family Medicine is seeking a motivated Research Assistant to join a dynamic and fast-paced team of highly experienced primary care physicians and researchers with a passion to improve patient health. Under the direction of the Principal Investigator and Project Manager, this position will primarily support patient recruitment for a PCORI-funded, nationwide multi-year, multi-site clinical trial around acute sinusitis but will also touch on other NIH-funded research projects related to preventive health care for older adults.

Responsibilities include developing relationships with and coordinating with clinic staff and providers across multiple primary/urgent care offices to identify eligible patients, recruiting patients to enroll, conducting in-person patient screening, obtaining informed consent, completing participant enrollment procedures, performing participant follow-ups, performing data quality checks, organizing medication deliveries to participants, and sending and tracking participant incentives. Candidates may also need to meet with patients outside of the clinic to perform enrollment procedures. Candidates will also be responsible for regular communication with the study team, reporting in team meetings about recruitment progress, identification of strategies to improve recruitment, and participation in larger team calls with all participating sites. Candidates may also be asked to prepare monthly reminder call schedules, meeting agendas, develop written protocols and maintain FAQ documents. Other tasks may include generating figures for reports, coding and analyzing semi-structured interviews using qualitative analysis software, managing data, and reviewing the scientific literature. This position also will perform miscellaneous administrative duties related to research, such as scheduling, taking meeting notes, and coordination and verification of transcriptions.

Please note that this is a full time one year limited position and may convert to career.

Salary Range: $36.37 - $58.52/Hourly

All Required:

• Bachelors Degree or 2+ years of previous study coordination or clinical research coordination experience.
• Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators and administration and to work as a member of a team.
• Ability to effectively communicate to and interact with patients in a compassionate and kind manner.
• Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University policies and federal and state regulations.
• Analytical skills to assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
• Close attention to detail to ensure accuracy in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.
• Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.
• A learning and professional growth mentality so that new software tools, systems, and processes can be adopted quickly and efficiently.
• Working knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.
• Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively establish rapport, building collaborative relationships, and communicate complex concepts and ideas in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Ability to adapt to changing job demands and priorities, remain flexible including working flexible hours to accommodate research deadlines.
• High degree of concentration and focus in a work environment that contains distracting stimuli, competing deadlines, and work delegated by more than one individual.
• Availability to work in more than one environment, travelling to various clinic sites, meetings, conferences, etc.