Part-Time Clinical Research Assistant-Cardiology

Boston Children’s Hospital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Health insurance

Vision and dental insurance

Student loan subsidies

Time off

Tuition reimbursement

License reimbursement

Discounted commuter benefits

Job summary

Boston Children’s Hospital’s Cardiovascular, Critical Care and Perioperative, Patient Services team is seeking a Part-Time Clinical Research Assistant (Nursing Research). You will support nurse-led projects, coordinate trials, and work with investigators and clinical teams to ensure studies meet standards and procedures.

Responsibilities include IRB submissions, patient enrollment, REDCap data entry, data quality checks, and contributing to abstracts and posters.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM or Psychology is required.
• 0-1 years of relevant research experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with IRB processes is preferred.
• Experience with REDCap preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist with managing regulatory activities for new and ongoing clinical trials, including IRB submissions, amendments, continuing reviews, and maintenance of study files.
• Obtains informed consent and enrolls patients in research studies. Reviews clinical information to identify patients meeting study inclusion criteria.
• Serves as liaison to participants in the research studies.
• Collect, enter, and manage study data in REDCap and other databases.
• Perform data quality checks and track enrollment and regulatory deadlines.
• Contribute to mentored research projects such as abstracts, posters, or manuscripts.

Skills

Regulatory coordination

Informed consent

Interpersonal communication

Data collection

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM or Psychology

Tools

REDCap

Job description

Part-Time Clinical Research Assistant-Cardiology

Position Summary/ Department Summary
The Clinical Research Assistant (Nursing Research) within Cardiovascular, Critical Care and Perioperative, Patient Services at Boston Children's Hospital supports the coordination, implementation, and day-to-day operations of clinical research activities for nurse-led research projects. Under supervision, this role works closely with investigators, research staff, trainees, and clinical teams to ensure studies follow established clinical study standards and procedures. The Clinical Research Assistant assists in the creation and distribution of study materials; supports protocol development, will be responsible for screening and enrolling study subjects, contribute to data collection and work with other research staff on data, monitoring protocol implementation, reporting results, and supporting dissemination.
Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with managing regulatory activities for new and ongoing clinical trials, including IRB submissions, amendments, continuing reviews, and maintenance of study files.
• Obtains informed consent and enrolls patients in research studies. Reviews clinical information to identify patients meeting study inclusion criteria.
• Serves as liaison to participants in the research studies.
• Collect, enter, and manage study data in REDCap and other databases.
• Perform data quality checks and track enrollment and regulatory deadlines.
• Contribute to mentored research projects such as abstracts, posters, or manuscripts.

Minimum Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM or Psychology is required.

Experience:

• 0-1 years of relevant research experience is preferred.
• Prior research experience strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with IRB processes preferred.
• Experience with REDCap preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work comfortably with patients, families, and an interprofessional team.

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, employee discounts and discounted commuter benefits at certain locations. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.