Research Support Specialist

About the Role

The Research Support Specialist (RSS) will support behavioral, brain imaging, and/or neuromodulation clinical research studies of patients with psychiatric disorders and healthy individuals.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct onsite study procedures with patients and healthy controls.
• Recruit, screen, and schedule research participants.
• Maintain study charts for ensuring IRB compliance.
• Maintain collected data in an electronic database.
• Help maintain a federal funded study budget with respect to participant payments, receipt reconciliation, Principal Investigator travel, and ordering study supplies.
• Assist in managing volunteer research assistants.
• Support behavioral (e.g., laboratory tasks, specimen collection), brain imaging (e.g., MRI, PET, EEG), and/or neuromodulation (e.g., rTMS) clinical research studies.
• Directly interact with study participants, scanner technicians, and other research and clinical personnel.
• Recruit and screen study participants.
• Accompany participants to MRI and PET scans and/or TMS sessions as applicable, running behavioral and imaging tasks and collecting study-related information.
• Travel to treatment facilities and clinics for patient recruitment or onsite study procedures may be required occasionally.
• Set up and utilize computers and other specialized research equipment.
• Maintain the integrity of collected data in an electronic database.
• Provide reports to the PI as needed.
• Update study protocol documents when required.
• Manage medical charts.
• Ensure compliance with all Institutional Review Board policies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree (foreign equivalent or higher).
• Experience in a research laboratory involving brain imaging of human subjects.
• Experience with data collection and management for human subjects research purposes.
• Experience with preparation of regulatory materials (e.g., IRB, grant progress reports).
• Experience with purchasing, and/or budget management and reconciliation.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Passion for research and dedication to complying with all applicable regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (foreign equivalent or higher) in a field relevant to human subject’s research (e.g., Psychology, Cognitive Science, Biomedical Engineering).
• Three (3) or more months of prior employment, internship, and/or volunteer work in a research laboratory involving brain imaging of human subjects.
• Experience involving direct interaction with psychiatric or neurological patient populations.
• Lab experience with brain imaging and/or brain stimulation as a research tool.
• Experience working in a hospital or medical center setting.