Bilingual Research Assistant, Pediatric Cancer Equity Studies

UC San Diego; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

UC San Diego’s Department of Pediatrics seeks a Research Assistant to support the Pediatric Cancer Equity Studies at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. You will assist with enrollment, consent, data collection, and tool development, collaborating to build study databases while safeguarding confidentiality.

The role involves data abstraction, IRB tasks, and potential literature and grant-writing support, with English/Spanish questionnaire administration and strong organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, epidemiology, psychology or related field.
• Experience with scientific manuscript and grant writing.
• Strong decision-making and independent prioritization.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; basic data entry.
• Excellent written and verbal English; clear communication.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and meet deadlines.
• Experience with IRB regulatory tasks.
• Analytical skills to achieve research goals.
• Experience in data entry and cleaning.

Responsibilities

• Assist in capturing and maintaining data for Pediatric Cancer Equity Studies.
• Help with participant enrollment and obtaining consent in English and Spanish.
• Data collection, data entry and creation of data collection tools.
• Collaborate with research team to aid in database development.
• Maintain confidentiality with sensitive data.
• Assist parents in completing close-ended questionnaires.
• Perform advanced data abstraction from medical records and dataset builds.
• Carry out regulatory tasks (IRB) and literature searches.
• Contribute to writing grants and scientific manuscripts.
• Perform data cleaning and quality checks.

Skills

Public Health knowledge

Epidemiology

Grant writing

Data entry

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Communication

Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Email systems

Job description

UC San Diego’s Department of Pediatrics seeks a Research Assistant to support the Pediatric Cancer Equity Studies at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. You will assist with enrollment, consent, data collection, and tool development, collaborating to build study databases while safeguarding confidentiality.

The role involves data abstraction, IRB tasks, and potential literature and grant-writing support, with English/Spanish questionnaire administration and strong organizational skills.