Research Assistant

Position: Research Assistant I
Position Details

Job Title RESEARCH ASST I Position Number 8151035 Work Modality Fully In-Person Is this request for the creation of a new Position (or the modification of an existing Position) to temporarily support the Work Day ERP? no Job Category University Staff Job Type Full-Time FLSA Status Non-Exempt Campus Maywood-Health Sciences Campus Department Name PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES Location Code PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES (06250A) Is this split and/or fully grant funded?

Yes Duties and Responsibilities

Research Assistant I.

Who We Are:

We are a team of enthusiastic researchers that seek to foster research among different platforms and stakeholders. The candidate will work in two projects.

1) Loyola University of Chicago is an affiliate site of CTSA group ITM 3.0 partnering with ITM, U Chicago, Rush U, ITM,, Endeavor and Advocate. The CTSA, or Clinical Translational Science award is a NCATS initiative. The CTSA Program is designed to develop innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency, quality and impact of the process for turning observations in the laboratory, clinic and community into interventions that improve the health of individuals and the public.

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was officially established in 2012 to transform the translational science process so that new treatments and cures for disease can be delivered to patients faster. We want you to be part of our team at Loyola and make the difference with us.

2) The ENACT project's full proposal's main objective is to accelerate the use and improve the quality of EHR-based research by translational researchers and data scientists and clinical decision support by providers through "Evolve to Next-Gen ACT" (ENACT). ENACT will implement several complementary informatics tools for EHR research, improve the quality of the existing structured data and add to it data extracted from clinical text using natural language processing (NLP), and enable both federated and centralized statistical and AI-based analyses.

Sustainability will be a cornerstone of ENACT to assure that the tools developed and deployed will continue beyond the end date of the grant.

We are looking for a Master's degree candidate, with interest and knowledge in evaluation methods, with emphasis in qualitative data collection and analysis, critical thinking, and track record of research experience and project management. The individual will collaborate with Loyola University faculty and staff across departments, including external partners (i.e. community members and other CTSA hubs).

Skills & Abilities

* Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.

* Ability to work autonomously on multiple simultaneous projects while still meeting required deadlines.

* Attention to detail, ability to review own and others work.

* Understanding different research strategies tor survey and ethnographic data including but not limited to, customer discovery methodology, focus groups, formal interviewing and some design thinking principles.

Requirements

* Proven work experience in previous research projects incorporating qualitative and survey design.

* Attention to creative design

* A strong eye for detail

* Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively

* Work well with others

* Comes ready to create, strong work ethic, and cares about ownership from beginning to end

* Has the ability to work remotely yet seamlessly with the team

* Can adhere to deadlines and be proactive.

Preferred qualifications

* Experience with mixed research methodologies

* Skilled on statistical software (SAS, Stata, NVivo)

* Experience working in an academic research institution

* Able to implement a strategy along with Loyola experts

Responsibilities:

* Demonstrate adaptability to work in interdisciplinary teams adopting different roles.

* Be able to recruit participants.

* Be able to conduct surveys, interviews and focus groups.

* Be able to analyze and synthesize data in an ethic and responsible manner.

* Develop dissemination materials (i.e, abstracts, manuscripts, presentation) for different audiences.

* Be willing to work with…