Professional Research Assistant
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Job Summary
The University of Colorado’s Center for Health and Neuroscience, Genes, and Environment (CUChange) has a Full-Time Professional Research Assistant position available. We seek a professional research assistant to work on projects related to cannabis and health. This position suits a recent graduate pursuing a career or planning an advanced degree in medicine, psychology, neuroscience, integrative physiology, translational human participant research, or other biomedical research.
Who We Are
We are a motivated team that conducts transdisciplinary research exploring factors linked with health and risk behavior in a number of populations.
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
We seek a full-time research assistant to aid with numerous grant-funded research studies. Responsibilities will include assisting with study participant recruitment, screening, scheduling, informed consent, leading study visits including mobile lab appointments, conducting self-report tasks with study participants, and data management and quality control. Candidates must be capable of working effectively and respectfully with participants who may have physical or cognitive limitations and come from various backgrounds, lifestyles, and personalities.
What We Can Offer
$45,000.00 - 48,000.00 (Annually)
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What We Require
- Bachelor’s degree, in psychology, neuroscience, life sciences, physiology, or another related field.
- Experience conducting human participant research appointments and eligibility screenings.
What You Will Need
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Ability to work collaboratively with study staff, postdoctoral researchers, undergraduates, principal investigators, and other laboratories.
What We Would Like You to Have
- Basic Life Support certification
- Phlebotomy experience
- IV certification
- REDCap project design and management
- Experience conducting human clinical trials research and complying with IRB guidelines
- Literacy in R/RStudio, SPSS, statistical analyses
- Experience handling biohazardous materials such as human blood, stool, and saliva samples
- Wet lab experience (Extraction of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from whole blood, qPCR, real time PCR, sandwich and bead-based ELISA, Flow Cytometry)
Special Instructions
To apply, please submit the following materials:
- Resume or CV.
- Cover Letter addressed to the Search Committee briefly describing your qualifications, professional goals, and specific interest in this position.
If you are selected as the finalist, your degree will be verified by the CU Boulder Campus Human Resources department using an approved online vendor. If your degree was obtained outside of the United States, please submit a translated version as an optional attachment.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until 1/31/25.
Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, applications must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs.
Posting Contact Information
Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources
Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu