Research Coordinator ; Temporary

Job Description

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department in the School of Medicine with 330 full‑time faculty, 460 courtesy faculty, and over 350 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites, plus telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics throughout Washington and beyond.

As the only academic psychiatry department serving Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, the Department’s residency training program plays a major role in developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest. The Department’s research portfolio totals $67 million in grants and contracts per year, supporting projects from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is an international leader in Collaborative Care and excels in Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences and Trauma, and is developing new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health and Targeted Intervention Development.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Full‑Time, Temporary Research Coordinator 3 to support the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s “Urban Indian Organization Overdose Prevention Pilot Program” (UIO), Safe States, the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), and the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH). The research coordinator will work under the project lead to implement activities that improve data collection, increase evidence‑based prevention strategies, and build cultural humility within urban Indian communities.

• Assist and support data entry for the Technical Assistance data system and provide TA to one UIO site (30%).
• Develop and write project protocols, scripts, surveys for data collection, IRB applications, grant applications, conference submissions, scientific and grey literature reviews, and manuscript/publication creation (20%).
• Support preparation of final reports for each project (20%).
• Plan, recruit for, manage, and facilitate partner meetings, including training, technical assistance, and site visits for tribal recipients and Urban Indian Organizations (20%).
• Coordinate evaluation and communication activities (10%).

• Support data entry for the technical assistance tracking system.
• Plan and implement in‑person meetings and online check‑in calls.
• Support coordination for cultural needs for site visits, in‑person meetings, and training.
• Support coordination of gifts and special guest speakers for welcomes, prayers, and closings.
• Ensure meetings with tribal and urban Indian project sites respect cultural norms and community expectations.
• Communicate and disseminate project deliverables, resources, and other materials to sites and partners.
• Provide TA to one UIO site.
• Develop TA scripts, reports, trainings, technical assistance manuals, models, and literature reviews; secure IRB approval.
• Coordinate and arrange virtual interviews and other meetings.
• Update and maintain communications.
• Conduct literature review, data collection, management, and analysis.

• Supervise student assistants responsible for website changes, data entry, phone calls, literature searches, and meeting preparations.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and four years of relevant experience.
• Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for the minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.

• Master’s degree in a related field (practicum experience in graduate school may be counted as work experience).
• One year experience working with Indigenous populations.
• Knowledge and experience interfacing with large data systems.
• Ability to conduct one‑on‑one interviews and facilitate focus groups.
• Ability to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data.
• Knowledge and prior experience with the human subjects institutional review process.
• Training and/or…