Research Assistant

• Support Program Directors, Program Manager, and Research Coordinators to oversee the operation and management of research and quality improvement projects.

• Adhere to Good Clinical Practice and incorporate GCP requirements in all stages of research and quality improvement projects from start up to close up.

• Adhere to regulatory and local requirements (i.e. annual safety reports, periodic safety reports).

• Adhere to timelines and milestones.

• Provide support to all collaborators, including clinicians, students, educators, and research staff, on a regular basis through communication.

• Liaise with internal and external collaborators involved with research projects, to develop study agreements, complete regulatory/ethics submissions, and process payments for sites and other collaborators.

• Compile, review, and file essential documents

• Help with training and orientation of study sites and staff.

• Help develop study support tools, reports, and trackers.

• Help create data reports, databases, audit case report forms (CRFs), and related programs

• Help coordinate the process of transferring prepared study data to the study sponsor

• Respond to data-related questions and queries from internal and external partners

• Schedule and prepare for meetings

• Implement all study related amendments requested by the Principal Investigator

• Respond to daily inquiries and facilitate communications on behalf of the central site.

• Help with grant submissions, publications and other study related documentations.

• Creation of data collection forms and surveys.

• Regular communication with external parties.

• Help provide training to staff

• Help provide training to external study staff

• Help plan and develop curriculum materials for educational workshops.

• Attend regular meetings prepare minutes and lines of actions.

• Bachelor's degree in a health-related field.
• Requires 2 years of relevant experience in health research.
• Demonstrated organizational skills, problem-solving skills, interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to work with interdisciplinary teams across multiple projects.
• Previous experience in data management and basic statistics (e.g., Microsoft Excel).
• Competence in the Microsoft Office Suite of applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Assets:

• Experience in evidence synthesis, quality improvement, patient safety, curriculum development and qualitative research methods.
• Experience with REDCap for building and managing online surveys and databases.
• GCP, TCPS2 training