Genetics - 423501

Research Professionals

04/12/2024

04/22/2024

Temporary Staff (SHRA)

Soc/Clin Research Assistant (Milko)

20027523

S022967

Full-Time Temporary

40

Monday through Friday 8:30AM – 5:00PM

North Carolina, US

$21.00-$22.00/per hour

05/06/2024

6 months not to exceed 11 months

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The principal purpose of the Social/Clinical Research Assistant will be to support ongoing clinical and research efforts underway in the research program directed by Dr. Jonathan Berg and Dr. Laura Milko.
This position will work as a coordinator for various working groups within the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) and the Age-Based Genomic Screening (ABGS) projects. Duties will include scheduling meetings, drafting email correspondence, organizing and maintaining an accurate record of research activities, tracking action items, drafting/editing research protocols and presentations. Coordination support will entail assisting with working groups by scheduling calls, taking notes, planning agendas, developing PowerPoint presentations and excel spreadsheets, recording calls, and communicating with team members and leaders. Additionally, the research assistant will be trained to manage the ABGS website for periodic updates and expected to export/manage data received from Qualtrics during ongoing projects.
The position is also responsible for the facilitation of community outreach for ABGS. In this outreach, one responsibility is to maintain positive relationships with our Community Research Board and other community partner organizations by acting as a liaison between these groups and the UNC ABGS Team. Another major component of this outreach is the organization and communication with external community partners to outreach events about genetics. Before these events, this research assistant will aid in tracking inventory, creating new outreach items (e.g. flyers, booklets, banners, etc.), coordinating ABGS members for the event, and writing/communicating event details for members. In the instance that active recruitment for research is occurring at these events, the assistant will aid in sending rewards to participants and tracking these payments via TANGO (will be trained during onboarding). Attendance at outreach events, typically held 1-2 times a month and often on weekend days, is generally required and included in the 40-hour work week.

Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent combination of training and experience. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.

Confidence in scientific/health communication is needed to conduct community outreach in diverse populations as a part of this role.

At least one year of relevant research experience. Qualitative research experience or interest in this work is a plus.
Ideal candidates will have a BS in a science field related to genetics and will possess the ability to work well independently under supervision. Ideal candidate should have a basic understanding of genetics and should have superior organizational and time management skills and the ability to work effectively with MS Office Suite and other common software such as Adobe Acrobat. Previous experience working with Qualtrics and Wordpress is a plus.
A keen interest in working toward improving patient care and public health is a plus. Multilingual proficiency in Spanish or other languages is also a plus.