Clinical Research Assistant, Department of Pediatrics/ Department of Neurology

VCU's Department of Neurology/Department of Pediatrics invites all interested candidates to apply for our exciting Research Assistant position! At VCU, we Make it Real through learning, research, creativity, service and discovery - the hallmarks of the VCU experience. A premier, urban, public research university nationally recognized as one of the best employers for diversity, VCU is a great place to work. It's a place of opportunity, where your success is supported, and your career can thrive.

Position Primary Purpose and General Responsibilities
VCU's Department of Neurology/ Department of Pediatrics invites all interested candidates to apply for our exciting Research Assistant position. Research Assistants perform a variety of routine, non-technical duties in assisting technical and professional personnel in a research clinical setting.

The Research Assistant will be expected to perform most components of data collection from human-subject volunteers required for multiple bio-behavioral and brain imaging research studies. The current position is to help us with data analysis on completed studies and subject recruitment and scheduling for active studies. The general responsibilities of this role are as follows:

Subject Recruitment - Participant/research subject recruitment, including placement of IRB-approved materials and media advertisements about research studies being conducted in the department, as well as collection and computer entry of responses and information furnished by potential research volunteers contacting the lab by phone, web or other means to identify possible participants. Scheduling of participants within protocol specific time frames.

Participant Consenting - Collection of informed consent and/or assent and permission from research volunteers, including describing the study to research participant candidates in simple language, and overseeing the signing of consent and assent forms.

Data Collection - Biological data collection, including collection and testing of urine and blood, saliva, and hair samples. Data collection from neuro-imaging studies will also be required, as well as vagal stimulation studies both from stimulating and recording devices for heart rate variability analysis.

Psychometric data collection, including administration, collection and scoring of paper-and-pencil or computer-driven questionnaires, as well as administration and recording of computer-driven cognitive performance tasks.

Maintain Study Data - Accurate and secure transmission and storage of study data, including to centralized databases or to physically secured case report forms for industry-sponsored clinical trials.

Participant Management - Accurate calculation of subject compensation. As part of the assessment, the employee will be expected to coordinate a busy study visit for the subjects, including escorting research volunteers to and from the different tasks and testing rooms and waiting rooms of the research facility.

Other duties assigned by Lead Clinical Research Coordinator or Principal Investigator. Most work is done on-site with potentially some work done remotely.