Title:  Research Coordinator II - Pediatrics - Palliative Care (On Site)

Summary

The Research Coordinator II is a operating budget funded full time position to assist with three active studies in the Palliative Care section. This is a Palliative care funded research project that requires a research coordinator to perform interventions with adolescents and young adults in a pediatric setting to a assess whether or not promoting resilience resources will improve outcomes for AYAs with advanced cancer and their families.

Job Duties

Specific Duties:

• Interviews, screen and recruits patients for multi-center grant funded studies; explains process and procedures to educate participant regarding the research study.
• Collects patient information; processes documents and enters information into a database.
• Maintains records and regulatory documents and records for research studies.
• Schedules research participant for appointments to carry out research interventions and interviews. 
• May travel to various TMC campuses to meet with research participants. 
• Assist with data collection and analysis as well as manuscript preparation.

Generic Duties:

• Participates in the clinical fellowship program mentoring and advising the trainees on their scholarly work.
• Retrieves and submits test results to appropriate party.
• May correspond with patient throughout study.
• Orders supplies and equipment.
• Performs other job duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field. Four years of related experience may substitute for degree requirement.
• One year of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in related field. 
• Preferred statistics knowledge and experience.
• Preferred EPIC experience.
• Experience in a healthcare setting.
• Experience with pediatrics research.
• Experience with RedCap.