Clinical Research Assistant-The Division of… at Boston… · Boston

Full-Time

40

Research

Position Summary/ Department Summary:
The Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine is seeking a Clinical Research Assistant to work with faculty researcher Shivani Gaiha, PhD within the Center for Adolescent Behavioral Health Research (CABHRe). The CRA will be responsible for supporting an array of activities on an e-cigarette study funded by the National Cancer Institute, including recruitment of study participants, implementation of day-to-day study activities, and assistance with other study support activities. This position is full-time and is expected to span 1 year (starting spring 2026) with the possibility to extend (subject to funding).

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists with Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions, annual reports, other documents required by grant(s).
• Develops materials for research participants, such as designing recruitment ads and programming study surveys.
• Recruits participants through social media posting, flyering, personal outreach, and/or other recruitment venues, including through web-based panels.
• Enrolls participants and maintains documentation of consent.
• Serves as liaison to the participants in the research studies, guiding and advising them throughout each phase of the study. Please note that this requires some evening and weekend availability.
• Manages study data and documentation, including completed surveys, informed consent forms, study tracking logs, and staff training logs.
• Performs literature searches, assists with data entry/cleaning/analysis, and supports scientific manuscript preparation for journal publication on topics related to ongoing research.
• Helps to coordinate BCH studey team members and their collaborators to ensure rigorous study implementation.
• Assists with administrative tasks and other projects as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, education, psychology, social sciences or biological sciences field is required. 

Experience:

• Experience and interest in adolescent health, public health, psychology, tobacco/nicotine, substance use, epidemiology, and statistical methods preferred.
• Excellent verbal communication skills essential.
• Excellent writing skills essential.
• Ability to maintain participant data confidentiality and adhere to study protocol.
• Experience and comfort using computer applications (Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) (essential), data collection and management tools (Qualtrics, REDCap) (preferred), statistical software (SPSS, etc.) (preferred), and website management tools (preferred).
• Ability to take initiative, work without direct supervision, multi-task, work on multiple projects with changing deadlines.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Boston

Regular

Part Remote/Hybrid

$41246.40-$61339.20 Annual