Research Associate Implementation Science

About the Hiring Group

RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS), a business unit of RTI International, is an independent and internationally recognized research organization. We provide healthcare consulting and research expertise to optimize decision-making for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device products across the development and marketing life cycle. Clients rely on our expertise, quality standards, and integrity to guide their product development and regulatory and market access strategies.

Our service groupings include Value, Access, and HEOR;
Patient-Centered and Outcomes Research;
Epidemiology and Biostatistics;
Medical Communications;
Global Business Operations; and Strategic Consulting and Growth. RTI-HS has office locations in the US, UK, Spain, France, and Sweden.

The Patient-Centered and Outcomes Research (PCOR) team consists of accredited researchers who aim to produce evidence that empowers patients and healthcare providers to make informed decisions that optimize health outcomes, enhance patient-centered care, and improve the overall quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.

Our PCOR team is made up of 5 practice areas:

• Health Economics Database Studies
• Health Preference Assessment
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Assessment
• Surveys and Observational Studies
• Implementation Science

RTI Health Solutions is seeking a motivated and highly collaborative Research Associate Implementation Science to support the growth and execution of our Implementation Science Program. This entry-level role is ideal for a candidate with a bachelor's or master's degree who is interested in implementation science, applied health research, healthcare delivery, or quality improvement.

In this role, you will work closely with senior researchers to support project execution, literature synthesis, mixed-methods research, site-based activities, stakeholder engagement, proposal development, and coordination across multidisciplinary teams. You will receive guidance while building skills across the research lifecycle and contributing directly to high-quality client deliverables.

You will help RTI-HS serve as a strategic research partner to pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients. Your work may help teams identify potential adoption barriers early in the clinical development pipeline and integrate practical implementation questions and solutions into research and evidence-generation designs.

• Support the design, implementation, and evaluation of implementation science projects across the RTI-HS portfolio.
• Conduct landscape assessments, literature reviews, environmental scans, and other evidence-synthesis activities using established procedures.
• Assist with the application of implementation science theories, models, and frameworks to research questions and real-world client challenges.
• Help develop logic models, implementation plans, evaluation measures, study protocols, interview guides, surveys, observation tools, and site-facing materials.
• Support qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods data collection and analysis under the guidance of senior researchers.
• Assist with identifying barriers and facilitators that may affect the adoption, implementation, scale-up, and sustainability of therapies, programs, or healthcare solutions.
• Prepare draft evidence summaries, tables, figures, reports, presentations, and other project deliverables.
• Follow approved procedures for research ethics, participant confidentiality, data security, documentation, and quality control.

• Coordinate assigned day-to-day project activities, including scheduling, meeting materials, document management, task tracking, and communication of updates.
• Maintain project timelines, deliverable trackers, milestones, action items, and budget-tracking information under the direction of the project lead.
• Monitor assigned activities and promptly communicate questions, risks, delays, or quality concerns to senior team members.
• Support site-based and multisite research through site communication, training and data-collection materials, recruitment tracking, documentation, and issue follow-up.
• Assist with Institutional Review Board submissions, amendments, and maintenance of required study records, as applicable.
• Facilitate collaboration and information sharing among multidisciplinary colleagues in implementation science, epidemiology, health economics and outcomes research,…