Research Assistant

Position Summary

The successful candidate will join the Migration and Nutrition Epidemiology team to work primarily on the CAMINANDO and retinoblastoma studies. The duties include recruiting study participants, coordinating interviews and collecting data from study participants as well as supervising student research assistants involved in supporting interviews. The incumbent will assist in regular communication with community-based organizations.

Responsibilities

• Recruiting study participants, coordinating interviews and collecting data from study participants (60%)
• Supervising student research assistants involved in supporting interviews (20%)
• Assist in regular communication with community-based organizations (2%)
• Participate in communication with other key investigators of the study as well as with the IRB (2%)
• Assist in data entry, working closely with the data manager (10%)
• Assist in preparation of materials for publication, presentation, submission to conferences, and for meetings with community organizations (5%)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in public health or master's degree in psychology, Sociology or Anthropology with 1 year of research experience.
• One-year experience including data entry, qualitative interviewing and epidemiologic study assessments.
• Experience with epidemiologic studies and must be able to use a relational database, Microsoft Access.
• Detail-oriented, with excellent organizational, interpersonal, written and oral communication skills in both Spanish and English.
• Bilingual English/Spanish; Spanish should be native level.
• Data Entry Experience.