Clinical Research Project Assistant

**About SickKids**:
Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of _Healthier Children. A Better World_.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world’s best in paediatric healthcare.

**Position Description**:
**Clinical Research Project Assistant**

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding research assistant position where you can utilize your organizational, communication, and time management skills? If you are looking for an opportunity to participate in research projects, recruit participants, and build and maintain databases, then this is an opportunity for you We are seeking a research assistant to join our team. **This is a full-time position (1.0 FTE).** **For this position, you will be required to work on-site with flexibility in hours to accommodate recruitment and study visits.**

**Here's What You'll Get to Do**:
The research assistant will be responsible for organizing research projects on children born preterm and/or with congenital heart disease.
- Aiding the Principal Investigators and their research managers/trainees on research projects and smaller related projects.
- Preparation of REB documents, ethics submissions.
- Coordinating study visits and contacting families for re-consent/data collection purposes.
- Database development, management and maintaining records of research data.
- Data collection.
- Screening for study eligibility and enrollment/recruitment of participants to active research studies.
- Preparation of data for multivariate statistical analyses and reporting.
- Conducting literature searches, maintaining literature databases.
- Administrative tasks: organizing study meetings with team members and collaborators, filing and study document maintenance following institutional policies and procedures.
- Opportunity to work on research projects (ie. data analysis, manuscript preparation, etc.) with other team members

**Here's What You'll Need**:

- Completion of a post-secondary program; hands-on experience in clinical research would be an asset.
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks and competing priorities and deadlines with a strong focus in accuracy of work
- Proficiency with REDCap
- Experience with patient enrollment into clinical studies
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- High attention to detail, with superior organizational and time management skills
- Highly developed analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving skills and a high level of judgment, tact and diplomacy in your interactions with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Well-developed time management skills and unfailing work ethics
- Ability to problem solve effectively and work in a proactive manner
- Ability to work well independently as well as in a team environment.
- A commitment to understanding and aiding in the pursuit of equity, diversity and inclusion objectives

**Employment Type**:
One-year contract with modified benefits (i.e., health & dental).

**Our Commitment to Diversity**:
The children and families we care for are from a variety of communities, and so are our employees. We welcome and encourage everyone to join our organization and be part of our team.

Thank you for your interest in joining SickKids. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. In accordance with our Hospital policy, employment at SickKids is conditional upon the Hospital’s receipt of all necessary documentation.

**How to Apply