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Position Summary

The IMPART Alliance team seeks a Research Assistant to support the IMPART Alliance grant housed within the College of Osteopathic Medicine.  This role will assist in overseeing, coordinating, and managing research projects, assist with developing research questions, designing and planning research projects and programs, analyzing data, and reporting on findings. 

Characteristics and responsibilities within this role include assisting with overseeing, coordinating, and implementing research and activities to meet program and funding research/evaluation requirements. Collecting data for analyses, performs basic analyses and coordinates analyses with Principal Investigator (PI) and other research resources to provide conclusive findings related to the research projects and program metrics. Assist with developing, adapting and updating research policy, procedures, and reporting instruments to meet project goals. Consult with PI to determine research questions, needs, and plan for collecting, managing, and analyzing data. Conduct literature searches and desk research. Assist with report preparation, manuscripts, and articles for publication. Act as a resource person to internal team and external partners regarding subject specific research, data, and reporting needs. Work with a growing research team that may include positions such as a Research Coordinator, student coordinator, interns, and a statistician. Assist in preparing and editing reports, articles, and manuscripts for publication; participates in presentations. Information management: maintains records of research procedures, program evaluations, and other collected data; Establish and implement quality control procedures to ensure improvements, and compliance with IRB and funding guidelines. Assist with coordinating and scribing meetings with all project and research partners. Collecting and organizes materials for programs, trainings, and research studies. Assist with coordinating public forums related to project and research activities. Perform duties normally associated with a Research Assistant I to complete programs and research projects, and to work with the PI to engage in any other research-related meetings, testing, and reporting.

Unit Specific Education/Experience/Skills

Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in the specific field of research employment or other related science fields; one to three years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in standard laboratory procedures and safety requirements and performing analytical and research techniques in an area related to research being performed; may require software specific to the area of research; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. The position may require special licensing or certification in the field related to the area of employment.

Desired Qualifications

Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in a related field such as Economics, Quantitative Data Analytics, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering and experience involving program and research development and operations management. Ideally, the candidate should possess some knowledge and experience related to aging, gerontology, adult and lifelong learning, persons with disabilities, public policy, training/education, and advocacy. Ideally, three to five years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in overseeing, coordinating and managing program and research operations and experience with optical scanning and related software is required.

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