Clinical Research Assistant

**Regular/Temporary**
- Temporary

**Job Title**
- CLINICAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT

**Job ID**
- 71598

**Location**
- HSC- Central Campus

**Open Date**
- 09/05/2025

**Job Type**
- Short Term Employee

**Close Date**
- 09/11/2025

**Employee Group**
- Unifor Unit 1, Staff

**Favorite Job**

**Department**
- Rehab Sciences

**Salary Grade/Band**
- Grade 6

**Salary Range**
- $22.94 - $36.83 (hourly)

**Contract Duration**
- 11.1 Months

**Hours per Week**
- 28

**Posting Details**

**Schedule**
- Monday - Thursday 8:30 -4:30

**Education Level**
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field of study

**Career Level**
- Requires 2 years of relevant experience

**JD #**

JD00593

**Pay Grade**:
6

**Title**:
Clinical Research Assistant

**Unit/Project Description**:

- For Department use only._

Beyond ICU Methods Centre Clinical Research Assistant. We conduct research to improve outcomes of critical illness survivors.

We are looking for a Clinical Research Assistant to join our team.

Potential CIHR-funded projects include REVIVe, a multi-center observational study of rehabilitation, frailty, and outcomes in adult and pediatric survivors of acute respiratory infection, and ACE-ICU, a pilot randomized clinical trial of early arm cycle ergometry in mechanically ventilated patients.

**Job Summary**:
Responsible for organizing and administering one or more clinical research projects within required deadlines under the direction of a Principal Investigator or project leader.

**Purpose and Key Functions**:

- Oversee the collection, entry, verification, management, analysis, and reporting of data.
- Use statistical software to analyze data and interpret results.
- Design and maintain databases, data collection forms, error checking methods and related programs for efficient collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Modify and reconfigure databases to ensure the optimal storage of data and minimize data entry complexities.
- Troubleshoot moderately complex computer problems.
- Write data management and operations documentation for the project.
- Liaise between the centre and remote clinic sites and personnel.
- Conduct structured patient interviews.
- Ensure that the relevant research methodology is applied and all research material is handled in accordance with established protocols, policies, and procedures.
- Participate in the development of promotional strategies and related materials to encourage participation and support for research projects.
- Develop presentations and present information and training sessions to project personnel and patients.
- Keep project participants informed of project progress through regular reports and newsletters.
- Gather and compile information and data required for the preparation of scientific papers, abstracts, and graphs.
- Conduct literature searches.
- Oversee the extraction and compilation of data required for reports and disseminate data to research groups and collaborating partners.
- Implement and maintain the research project budget. Create financial projections and make adjustments to the research project budget throughout the fiscal year.
- Exercise appropriate budget controls, monitor, and reconcile accounts.
- Write a variety of letters and memos.
- Participate in research project meetings and propose recommendations for procedure modifications and development in the areas of data management, quality control, and assurance.
- Write, update, and archive data management and quality assurance conventions.
- Respond to inquiries received from project personnel regarding relevant project issues and procedures.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study.
- Requires 2 years of relevant experience.

**Assets**:

- For Department use only_.
- Familiarity with clinical rehabilitation research
- Experience with international multicentre clinical trials an asset
- Experience with Clinical Trials Ontario, Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board an asset
- Good Clinical Practice, TCPS2 and other ethics related certifications required
- Experience with the intensive care/ critical care clinical environment an asset
- Proficiency with MS Office required (Outlook, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with MOSAIC preferred
- Experience with REDCap, R, or equivalent software an asset

**Additional Information**:

- Additional training with research methods an asset
- To coordinate with international collaborators, some teleconferences will be required outside traditional office hours

**How To Apply**

**Employment Equity Statement**

McMaster University is located on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Mississauga Nations and within the lands protected by the “Dish With One Spoon” wampum agreement.

The diversity of our workforce is at the core of our innovation and creativity and strengthens our research and teaching excellence. In keeping with its Statement on Building an Inclusive Community with a Shared Purpose, McMaster University striv