Research Coordinator II
Position Highlights:
- Challenging and interesting work with participants and stakeholders
- Assist with research project focused on increasing Black and Hispanic patient enrollment to Moffitt therapeutic clinical trials using community outreach and digital approaches
- Recruiting and consenting eligible participants
- Collection of data and questionnaires
- Assisting with planning and implementation of meetings and logistics of internal and external stakeholders
- Engaging with community stakeholders to support community facing intervention components
- Will contribute to dissemination of research results, for example preparing first drafts of manuscripts for the Principal Investigators
The Ideal Candidate:
- A professional, personable, highly organized individual with research experience and healthcare/medical knowledge
- Demonstrates skills in working effectively with a team, setting appropriate goals and attaining positive results
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to foster a cooperative work environment and develop positive and effective working relationships
- Demonstrates professional maturity, a consistently positive attitude, and an energetic, can-do work approach
- Independent and self-motivated worker, able to be effective with limited supervision
- Ability to be flexible, balancing multiple priorities, deadlines, and competing interests
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with both research and community groups
- Proactive and solution-oriented workstyle preferred
- Critical thinking and intellectual problem solving skills
- Ability to exercise independent judgment
- Demonstrates ability to assess priorities and handle multiple tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines with attention to detail and quality
- Skills in organization, manuscript writing, and literature review
- Knowledge of clinical trials
Responsibilities:
- Provide general research support to Principal Investigators, research team, and community outreach team
- Identify, recruit, and enroll participants
- Schedule and coordinate research team meetings, trainings for community outreach teams, and education events with stakeholders
- Under the direction of the Principal Investigators, search for and retrieve relevant scientific literature
- Collect, enter, and manage data in multiple databases (e.g., Excel, Access, SPSS, etc.), ensuring data integrity and fidelity
- Assist Principal Investigators in data base development, data management, and data analyses as appropriate
- Perform quality assurance and quality control data checks
- Independently prepare a comprehensive first draft of documents for submission to the IRB, for review by senior study personnel and/or principal investigator
- Document protocol exemptions and deviations, as appropriate
- Prepare the data, figures and references for manuscripts and scientific presentations
- Assist with report preparation, development of manuscripts, and conference abstracts/posters
Credentials and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree with 1 year of relevant experience required OR Associate's degree required with 3 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree with no experience
- Hands on research experience
- Experience in the use of basic office equipment
- Experience working with computers and MS Office software environment
- Must have the ability to work well under the pressure of meeting mandatory deadlines
- Must have good organizational skills and careful attention to details
- Good oral and written communication skills are required
- Need to have the ability to read, write, interpret, and apply instructions to assigned activities
- English-Spanish bilingual preferred, but not required