Research Assistant – Urology

Job Description

About the Role

Title: Research Assistant – Urology

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Job Description:

Flexible Hybrid

Contract: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, hours may vary

Salary Range: $26.1 – 49.38 Hourly

Employment Type

1 – Staff: Contract

Duration – One Year

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Department of Urology is a seeking a full time Research Assistant to help with the execution of research operations to meet the mission and goals of the program/project assigned. In this role you will assists with the development and production of deliverables including presentations, website, social media content, communications, and other materials.

Duties included the following:

Research Management

Plan and carry out chart review and data extraction.

Understand experimental design and goals of study.

Record experiments and results in an accurate and timely way.

Enroll patients in IRB approved trials and handle bio specimens from patients.

Must be capable of conducting multiple experiments in close temporal proximity.

Perform calculations and statistical analysis necessary for interpretation of experimental results.

Review data with PI once per week and attend monthly research group meetings.

Make data readily available to the PI for the purpose of preparing manuscripts.

Other duties, as assigned.

Manuscript preparation.

Organize and write multiple manuscripts for peer reviewed journals.

Assist PI in manuscript presentation for peer reviewed and popular journals.

Please note that this contract position may convert to career.

Pay Range: $26.10 – $49.38 hourly

Job Qualifications

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Bachelor’s degree in related field.

0-2 years of relevant experience.

Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams.

Demonstrated writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.

Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.

Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.

Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations.

Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.

Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.