Job Description

Posting number: 26-79838-02

Department: RUHS-Medical Center

Division: Research Projects And Admin

Job classification: RESEARCH SPECIALIST II

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Health Services, Research, Medical

Summary

The County of Riverside’s Comparative Effectiveness and Clinic Outcome Research Center (CECORC) with the Research Projects and Administration Unit at Riverside University Health System (RUHS) - Medical Center seeks a Research Specialist II to join our team in Moreno Valley.

The incumbent will be responsible for planning, designing, conducting, and evaluating comprehensive and complex research projects, while maintaining frequent communication with the Principal Investigator PI, monitoring team, and sponsors regarding trial-related issues, patient safety and care, documentation, and adverse events. The incumbent will also be responsible for accurate, timely, and consistent data entry, processing and shipping patient samples, creating material for recruitment purposes, and performing daily duties such as patient screening, data collection, data entry, EMR chart reviews, and patient consenting.

Desired Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree
• At least five years of clinical research experience
• Experience working on clinical trials, including industry-sponsored or federally funded trials involving drugs or devices in a hospital setting
• Knowledge of state and federal regulations governing clinical research, including HIPAA compliance
• Experience with patient consenting and recruitment in research studies
• Experience in the informed consent process, including creation and modification of informed consent documents
• Knowledge of Institutional Review Board IRB submissions and processes
• Experience interpreting and applying research protocols
• Experience conducting patient screening activities
• Experience with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) chart review
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Work Schedule:

9/80 Friday - Day Shift

This position will work on-site and will require working off-hours during clinical trial recruitments.

Meet the Team!

Riverside University Health System Medical Center provides high quality, patient centered care through a dedicated team serving Riverside County. Learn more atRUHS Medical Center website.

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Examples of duties

• Initiate research and statistical investigations and plan, design, and conduct the activities of such investigations; recognize the need for research and statistical investigations in the delivery of services and program planning and evaluation.
• Coordinate with staff and outside agencies to obtain data; design, organize and develop research evaluation plans; develop regulatory waiver requests, prepare budgets and submit grant proposals.
• Define sample populations and selection criteria; design, develop and maintain databases; write queries to extract data for ongoing and unexpected management reports; create, test and administer surveys and questionnaires; conduct focus and personal interviews; develop forms, procedures, schedules and sampling criteria for field data collection; perform random assignments.
• Advise research specialists and administrators of research findings and/or procedures; prepare narrative reports of findings with valid conclusions and statistical significance; project program impacts and provide trend analysis.
• Identify problems in inter-organizational operations and procedures with implications for plan development and implementation and recommend alternative solutions for use in management decision-making.
• Conduct research to identify community needs for new and changes to existing programs; identify appropriate sources of funding to support new programs and prepare funding applications.
• Assist the supervisor in developing and coordinating planning activities and in directing assigned project staff; prepare annual budgets for research project
• Participating in clinical trials by obtaining informed consent, creating screening and enrollment logs, entering data on subjects enrolled in the study, assessing the accuracy of data entry, maintaining records for monitor reviews, participating in monitor reviews, and working with Principal and Co-Investigators in the education of the hospital staff when indicated.

Qualifications

OPTION I

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's degree in social science, statistics, mathematics, economics, business/public administration, public health, data processing, or any of the natural sciences, which included graduate level courses in research design, data collection methods, and advanced statistical analysis. (Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for up to two years of the required education, on the basis of 10 semester or 15-quarter units of graduate level course work equaling 6 months.)

Experience: Two years of progressively responsible experience in administrative, professional, investigative, technical, or other responsible work, which included statistical analysis, research or program design and data collection, and electronic data storage and report generation or grant writing.

OR

OPTION II

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's degree in social science, statistics, mathematics, economics, business/public administration, public health, data processing, or any of the natural sciences, which included graduate level courses in research design, data collection methods, and advanced statistical analysis. (Additional qualifying experience may substitute for up to two years of the required education, on the basis of 10 semester or 15-quarter units of graduate level course work equaling six months.)

Experience: Two years as a Research Specialist I in Riverside County in a Department of Public Social Services, Public Health, Behavioral Health, Emergency Management, Probation, hospital, or clinical research center.

OR

OPTION III

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Ph.D. in social science, statistics, mathematics, economics, business/public administration, public health, data processing, or any of the natural sciences, which included graduate level courses in research design, data collection methods, and advanced statistical analysis.

AND

License:

Possession of a valid California Driver's License

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For questions regarding this recruitment:

Contact Jasmine Watts at (951) 955-2769 orjwatts@rivco.org. Please allow 1-2 business days for a response to general inquiries.