Research Support Specialist

Bachelor's degree (foreign equivalent or higher) relevant to human subjects research: e.g., Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Biomedical Engineering. Experience working or volunteering in human subjects research. Experience involving direct interaction with psychiatric or neurological patient populations. Demonstrated interest in drug addiction research. Experience with clinical practice, including those with comorbid conditions such as schizophrenia. Experience working in a hospital or medical center setting. Experience with data collection and/or management for research purposes. Lab experience with brain imaging and/or brain stimulation as a research tool. Experience with preparation of regulatory materials (e.g., IRB, grant progress reports). Experience with purchasing, and/or budget management and reconciliation.

Brief Description of Duties:
The Research Support Specialist (RSS) will support behavioral (e.g., laboratory tasks, specimen collection), brain imaging (e.g., MRI, PET, EEG, etc.), and/or neuromodulation (e.g., rTMS) clinical research studies of patients with substance use disorders and healthy individuals. Some patients with substance use disorder may have comorbid psychiatric illnesses, most notable schizophrenia. The RSS will directly interact with study participants (and occasionally participant collaterals), scanner technicians, and other research and clinical personnel (principal investigators, MDs, etc.). The RSS will also recruit and screen study participants, and accompany participants to MRI and PET scans and/or TMS sessions as applicable, during which they will run multiple behavioral and imaging tasks as well as collect study-related information. Travel to treatment facilities and clinics for patient recruitment or onsite study procedures may be required occasionally. The RSS will set up and utilize computers and other specialized research equipment. The RSS will also maintain the integrity of collected data in an electronic database and provide reports to the PI as needed, update the study protocol documents when required, manage medical charts, and ensure compliance with all Institutional Review Board policies. The successful incumbent must have excellent interpersonal, organizational, and time-management skills. They will also have a passion for research and a dedication to complying with all applicable regulatory requirements.

• Conduct onsite study procedures with patients and healthy controls.

• Recruit, screen, and schedule research participants.

• Maintain study charts for ensuring IRB compliance.

• Maintain collected data in an electronic database.

• Help maintain a federal funded study budget with respect to participant payments, receipt, reconciliation, Principal Investigator travel, and ordering supplies.

• Assist in managing volunteer research assistants.

• Other duties as assigned

Special notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.

Evening and weekend work will be required at times.

For this position, we are unable to sponsor candidates for work visas.

Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.

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