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.

• 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.

• 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