JOB DESCRIPTION

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
The Department of Radiology has an outstanding opportunity open for a Temporary Research Coordinator.
The Research Coordinator contributes to the growth and success of the Department of Radiology by executing the mission and vision.
This position will perform basic research duties to support ongoing projects in the Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC) related to aging and neurodegenerative disease. This includes utilizing neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and/or neuroscience techniques and procedures to collect and evaluate data for the lab.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.)

Research Study Development & Management-60%

• Participate in developing research designs, data collection methods, and strategies for data management.
• Coordinate multiple data collection efforts which may include collaborating agencies or institutions.
• Duties may also include recruiting or overseeing the recruitment and interviewing of human subjects, preparing human subject applications, writing and editing technical reports and manuscripts for publication or presentation, developing and monitoring project budgets, preparing progress reports/proposals, and acting as a liaison between the project team and research project partners and funding agencies. May supervise research and support staff.
• Qualify candidates by completing phone interviews and collect brief neuropsychological data/MRI scans, eye scans, and/or EEG from human subjects.
• Schedule, coordinate, and administer scanning and testing of human subjects – this includes training subjects on cognitive tasks.

Analysis & Reporting- 30%

• Apply scientific knowledge gained through formal education at the Bachelor’s level or equivalent/related experience to coordinate a significant research project or multiple smaller research projects.
• Perform preprocessing of functional and structural MRI and DTI data; prepare and analyze data for presentation; work at the command-line in Linux using IBIC computer software for neuroimaging processing and analysis (FSL, AFNI, in-house software tools).
• Prepare documentation of IBIC data analysis workflow and other experimental practices.
• Enter MRI, diagnostic, and neuropsychological data into IBIC databases.
• Enter MRI data into central project databases, e.g. at collaborating institutions

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Science/Related field including college-level course work in statistics, analysis or research OR equivalent education/experience.
• One year of work experience in research or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of fundamental neuroimaging concepts
• Familiarity with a command line environment (e.g., UNIX, MATLAB, Python, R)
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Good communication skills and ability to work with diverse communities
• Time management, multi-tasking, presentation and organizational skills

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology or Neuroscience
• 2-3 years of Research Coordination
• Experience with computer programming
• Experience or interest in working with clinical populations, especially seniors or those with degenerative brain disease
• Fundamental UNIX skills and shell scripting experience preferred.
• Experience with Python, MATLAB, and/or R programming language preferred.

Please refer the Job description for details