The Coordinating Center for the Major Extremity Trauma and Rehabilitation Consortium (METRC) housed in the Department of Health Policy and Management is looking for a part-time Research Program Assistant II for 25hours per week to support the reporting and analyses for clinical trials and observational studies in Orthopedic trauma and rehabilitation. This is a part-time position with a 25-hours-per-week schedule.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• The Research Program Assistant II will assist research data collection and management activities.

• Collaborate with assigned study teams to produce weekly study progress reports.

• Compose queries utilizing both custom R functions and pre-formatted generators to flag study issues at the individual data point level for each assigned study.

• Proactively seek to improve or optimize data workflows within assigned study teams.

• Utilize and update the system to track the logical framing of research concepts across the centers ongoing studies and then map those concepts to fields found in common study forms.

• Design functions that work within the automatic reporting system that produce visualizations based on combinations of research concepts.

• Assist in the maintenance of a Python Flask web server on the Google Cloud Platform that automates the collection of external administrative information and constructs and hosts on-demand study progress &query reports.

• Communicate with Sr. Programmer Analysts and Data Managers regularly with respect to data management related issues.

• Other Potential Responsibilities

• As skills are mastered, share in teaching other or new data-centric Research Program Assistants.

• Write detailed documentation/specifications for both existing and to-be-built research applications.

• Create tables and figures in publication-quality form summarizing the results of statistical analyses and present results orally to study investigators.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or graduation equivalent.

• Two years related experience.

• Additional education may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using some form of GIT, basic programming skills is preferred.

Classified Title: Research Program Assistant II

Role/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/02/CC

Starting Salary Range: $15.70 - $26.25 HRLY (Commensurate with experience)

Employee group: Part-time

Schedule: other

Exempt Status: Non-Exempt

Location: Remote

Department name: Health Policy & Management -METRC

Personnel area: School of Public Health

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. The university promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.