Research Technician

Job Profile:

Lab and Research Assistant 2 Non-Exempt

Job Family:

Lab and Research Support

Time Type:

Full time

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Minimum Qualifications:

High School Diploma and two-years (2) experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job profile Summary:
Performs intermediate to complex technical support, general lab maintenance, and lab operational support with some degree of independence to aid in research projects. Responsible for following lab safety standards.

Job Description:

The REVIVE project is seeking a research technicians to advance the scientific aims of a recently funded NIH five year project, which may include a combination of responsibilities related to human research. Job duties will include recruitment, screening, enrollment, data collection with women with mobility impairing disabilities.

Duties will also include retention efforts, assistance with developing project materials, reports, and publications. This individual will pay an integral role in conducting research to determine how virtually delivered meditative practice can help young mid-life women control cardiometabolic diseases. The candidate will work directly with a mobility impaired population.

Pay Range: $23.00 - $25.00 per hour

Essential Duties

• Plays an integral role in conducting research aimed at recruiting and improving health behaviors in women with mobility impairing disabilities.
• Performs scientific data collection, data entry, data proofing, and analyses involving routine procedures characterized by moderate use of independent judgement following scientific protocol.
• Conducts research recruitment, enrollment, data collection in English using online, virtual modalities.
• Uses web-based video platforms, creates short videos, uploads new content and updates existing content.
• Maintains detailed records of data collected and data entered.
• Organizes data, prepares data for computer input and records computer output.
• Conducts library and online searches to find research information on related procedures and techniques that can be used in the laboratory and/or field.
• Writes summaries of projects, documenting location, findings, and procedures used and assists in writing reports by conducting literature searches and background research; prepares bibliographies as required.
• Operates laboratory equipment such as measuring tape and Oura rings.
• Completes survey measures with research participants.
• Maintains detailed records of daily laboratory tasks.
• Inventories and requisitions supplies.
• Conduct lab tests using appropriate equipment and protocols.
• Deliver presentations to a variety of audiences.
• Initiate confidential correspondence on behalf of the project.
• Conduct interviews over the phone or using virtual methodologies.
• Schedule appointments and maintain calendar for project.
• Supervise staff and/or students.
• Use critical thinking to make decisions and/or analyze and report data/results of tests conducted.
• Able to exercise judgment within generally defined practices & policies to determine appropriate action.
• Work both independently and within a complex structured team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in working in the community with culturally diverse groups of people.
• Experience using web-based video platforms, creating short videos, uploading and updating content.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles and techniques of research recruitment, enrollment, retention, and participant confidentiality.
• Experience managing social media campaigns.
• Demonstrated knowledge of research methods, data collection, data entry, data proofing and analyses.
• Experience in performing in a professional manner and in collaboration with a variety of individuals.
• Experience working with women with mobility impairing disabilities.
• Experience recruiting for research studies using online platforms.
• Experience on implementing physically active interventions.
• Experience providing training to technologically naïve individuals.
• Evidence of effective written and spoken communication skills.
• Troubleshooting end-user technological challenges, such as internet, computer or device malfunctions.
• Knowledge of meditative movement techniques such as Tai Chi or Qigong.
• Experience working with undergraduate trainees.
• Experience prioritizing workload.
• Regular activities require ability to quickly change priorities which may include and/or are subject to resolution of conflicts.

Working Environment:

• Work in a lab setting.
• Use lab equipment: measuring tapes, Oura rings, salivary sample collection tubes, and Virtual assessment modalities.
• Use of basic math and a calculator.
• Use office equipment including a desktop computer.
• Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding and manipulating a computer mouse.
• Works under supervision.
• Work from general instructions on standard job duties and specific directions/instructions on new assignments.

Department Statement:

The Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation is distinguished as a model for excellence and inspiration in nursing and interprofessional practice, education and research to advance knowledge and innovative practice models, and new solutions to optimize the health and well-being of our local, national and global communities.

Project Statement:

The REmote Virtual Intervention: Inspiring Vitality and Energy (REVIVE) study will recruit national, diverse sample of mid-life (aged 35-64 years) women with mobility impairment with high risk waist circumference. All measures and intervention implementation will be conducted virtually using digital methods. We will determine whether women who are randomly allocated to a 12 week seated tai chi and qigong intervention experience reductions in cardiometabolic risk factors, compared to a health education control. We also expect that participants in the tai chi and qigong arm will experience improvements in stress, emotions, healthy eating and sleep. We will also use study data to explore a model of biobehavioral mechanisms by which tai chi and qigong may reduce abdominal fat via physiological and behavioral pathways. Expected findings may improve healthy aging for women with mobility impairing disabilities, and improve understanding of biobehavioral mechanisms to inform future research and practice.

Driving Requirement:

Driving is not required for this position.

Location:

Campus: Downtown Phoenix

Funding:

Grant Funded

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