Research Scientist

• Support management of research studies focused on substance use and infectious disease in community, clinical, and carceral settings
• Implement activities for a multi-site study developing, testing, and optimizing a community paramedic and medical-legal partnership intervention
• Oversee daily and administrative aspects of research projects
• Interact with study participants, research coordinators, investigators, work-study students, and research staff
• Manage program records and communication needs
• Assist with reports, presentations, data analysis, data collection, and study progress feedback
• Recruit and enroll study participants using approved methodologies
• Explain research procedures, obtain informed consent, and complete randomization procedures
• Schedule participant appointments and conduct reminder calls or mailouts
• Review data collection forms for completeness and quality
• Check junior staff data entry and provide technical guidance
• Obtain and distribute participant reimbursements
• Track and report adverse events and collect data specified by the lead site
• Support IRB approvals, correspondence, amendments, and renewals
• Conduct literature searches and assist with manuscripts, presentations, and research
• Assess potential clinical-trial participant suitability and develop recruitment strategies
• Recommend protocol changes and evaluate data
• Oversee new or junior research assistants
• Schedule meetings involving directors, departmental staff, and external agencies
• Use reference database software to edit references in grants and manuscripts
• Support research grant submissions and prepare narratives, budgets, and tables
• Assist with NIH and government-agency reporting
• Maintain supervisors’ CVs, bibliographies, and related documents
• Train and orient new research assistants and staff
• May serve as team leader or supervisor in a smaller lab

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