Research Coordinator​/Phlebotomist; Temporary

Job Description

The Department of Child, Family, & Population Health Nursing has an outstanding opportunity for a Temporary, Hourly Research Coordinator 2/Phlebotomist. Working in a research team under the leadership of the Principal Investigator and the Project Director, the Research Coordinator 2, Phlebotomist, will play a critical role in the implementation, maintenance, and overall management of several complex data collection protocols as part of a new NIH‑funded randomized controlled trial (RCT).

The RCT will leverage an established treatment program to target childhood obesity (vs. control) in 240 prepubertal girls who are at risk for earlier pubertal onset based on BMI percentile ≥ 85th and low family income, both factors linked to earlier pubertal onset. Findings will inform the value and optimal timing of such interventions, including whether implementation in the prepubertal period may be most impactful due to the combined benefits of weight loss along with a reduction in risk for earlier pubertal onset and its sequelae.

• Implement and maintain recruitment and tracking procedures of a primarily low‑income, racially diverse sample of prepubertal girls and their families.
• Implement and maintain complex data collection procedures, including interview questions and health assessments.
• Implement and maintain complex biological specimen collection procedures, including pediatric blood draws, blood processing, and sample storage/organization.
• Implement and maintain quality assurance/improvement, data management, data reporting, and administrative procedures.

• Implement and maintain subject recruitment protocols.
• Communicate with potential study families to explain the study, answer questions, and solve related problems.
• Administer screening questions to determine eligibility and recruit into study.
• Implement and maintain tracking protocols in general.
• Implement and maintain tracking protocols related to subject blood draw schedules.
• Implement and maintain tracking protocols related to ensuring on‑time blood draws, blood processing, storage, and documentation.
• Communicate with families ongoing to explain the biological specimen collection, send reminders about upcoming blood draw appointments, and solve related problems.
• Implement strategies for sample retention.

• Schedule, coordinate, and ensure completion of baseline and follow‑up study assessments repeating over the study period.
• Schedule, coordinate, and ensure completion of pediatric blood draws repeating over the study period.
• Implement and maintain complex in‑person data collection protocols as well as perform follow‑up tasks.
• Implement and maintain complex in‑person data collection protocols related to pediatric blood draws, including sample processing with the use of a centrifuge and aliquoting and sample storage/organization.
• Coordinate research team roles to complete research activities and participate in problem‑solving related to the data collection protocols, scheduling, and miscellaneous issues.
• Implement and maintain quality assurance/improvement tasks related to the data collection protocols.

• Perform data management tasks, including data review, scoring, reduction, merging, and the construction of data sets for in‑depth analysis by research team members.
• Perform data management tasks, including biological specimen review, documentation, freezer mapping, batching for shipment, assay data review, and incorporation of assay data into study datasets.
• Prepare information needed for IRB modification applications, NIH progress reports and scientific presentations and publications.
• Implement, maintain, and provide overall management of all data collection protocols.
• Perform related activities involving quality assurance/improvement and data management tasks.
• Provide recruitment and data updates to research team at meetings and through periodic newsletters.

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant academic area AND two years of experience coordinating the operations of…