SUMMARY:
The Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) will support the research study, “Collaborative Approaches to Examining Adversity and Building Resilience” (CARE) program. The CARE study brings together a cross-discipline, cross-sector team to study how to enhance resilience in children and families who have weathered substantial adversity. This study aims to understand how stress “gets under the skin” and how resilience-promoting caregiver-child interventions may mitigate the negative health effects of adverse childhood experience. We are recruiting families to an intervention study designed to improve child-caregiver bonding and resilience, caregiver stress and child behavioral outcomes, and biologic measures of stress.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH COORDINATOR:
• Recruiting research subjects by telephone or in person.
• Abstracting information from clinical records and conducting structured chart review.
• Conducting screening and obtaining informed consent
• Conducting cross-sectional and longitudinal quantitative and qualitative interviews in person and by telephone.
• Administering surveys
• Tracking and scheduling study participants for interviews or visits.
• Analyzing collected data using quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Conducting literature searches.
• Abstracting information from clinical records, transcripts and journal articles.
• Supporting the management and coordinating the tasks of multiple clinical research studies.
• Managing and reporting on study results.
• Creating, cleaning, updating, and managing databases and comprehensive datasets and reports.
• Managing investigator’s protocols in the Committee on Human Research online system, as well as renewals and modifications of protocol applications and implementation of new studies.
• Participating in the review and writing or protocols to ensure institutional review board approval is withing compliance.
• Participating in any internal and external audits or reviews of study protocols.
• Leadership of and participation in community events.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

Qualifications: Bilingual in English/Spanish, written and verbal. Ability to create a welcoming, inclusive and supportive environment. Experience working with culturally and linguistically diverse groups.

Education: Associate degree

Experience: Two (plus) years in conducting research.

Experience in electronic medical records.

Physical Demands: May be required to lift objects weighing up to 25 pounds. Sitting in normal seated position for extended periods of time. Reaching by extending hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction. Finger dexterity is required to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hand(s) or arm(s), for example using a keyboard

The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job unless providing such accommodations would result in undue hardship for the SBNC.

Salary Range: $$23 - $26/hr