Job Description

We are seeking a casual Research Assistant who will work under the direct supervision of a Research Associate. The Research Assistant will primarily assist with the day-to-day logistical and operational tasks for the SHIELD and BEEHIVE studies. The position requires office-based and remote work.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist in consenting participants for research studies, complete data collection, and conduct follow-up activities for the SHIELD study, BEEHIVE study and sub-studies.
• Conduct data collection including administering questionnaires, data collection from a breathing test, recording oral exam results, traveling to homes of research participants to drop off and set up air monitoring devices, frailty assessment devices and coordinating sample collection at labs in the Johns Hopkins Hospital and at a community clinic.
• Perform follow-up activities which include communicating with participants to provide technical support for home-based devices, tracking participants to obtain updated contact information, scheduling follow-up visits.
• Follow established research protocols and complete required trainings.
• Responsible for data entry of collected data and ensuring safety and security of data.
• Work closely with the Research Program Coordinator to ensure completion of all research related activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's Degree in related discipline.

• Additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
• Must have reliable transportation to travel to participants' homes.
• Availability to work weekends to coach participants to complete the breathing test at home.

Classified Title: Research Assistant 
Role/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/03/CD  
Starting Salary Range: $17.20 - $30.30 HRLY ($23.75 HRLY targeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Casual / On Call 
Schedule: M-F, hours vary 
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus 
Department name: ???????SOM DOM Infectious Disease  
Personnel area: School of Medicine 

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal ... timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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