Research Coordinator

at  Virginia Commonwealth University

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any other!
At VCU, we are UNCOMMON and UNLIKE any other university. A premier, urban, public research university nationally recognized as one of the best employers for diversity, VCU is a great place to work. It’s a place of opportunity where your success is supported and your career can thrive. VCU offers employees a generous leave package, career paths for advancement, competitive pay, and an opportunity to do mission-driven work.
VCU’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) and the Cohort and Registry Administration (CARA) Core invites all interested candidates to apply for our newly created Research Coordinator position! VCU is UNLIKE the rest. Our impact is measured one student and patient at a time. VCU’s unequaled combination of excellence, diversity, research and creativity makes success possible for every one of our 300,000+ “RAMily” members. And that makes us one of the most innovative universities in the country. A premier, urban, public research university nationally recognized as one of the best employers for diversity, VCU is a great place to work. It’s a place of opportunity, where your success is supported and your career can thrive.
All full-time staff are eligible for our generous benefits package that includes choices for health, vision, and dental coverage, life-insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, retirement planning, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, flexible spending accounts, tuition benefits, significant paid-time off,12 paid holidays, and more. Explore our benefits further here: https://hr.vcu.edu/current-employees/benefits/

The VCU Cohort and Registry Administration (CARA) Core houses prominent research registries, which are some of the largest in the country - the Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry (MATR) and Spit for
Science (S4S). These registries carry out research functions for internal and external investigators and support VCU’s national prominence in research. CARA Core services include data and
sample collection via mail, email, phone, and in-person methods as well as providing access to secondary data for qualified investigators.
The CARA Core is currently seeking to hire a Research Coordinator to support a variety of tasks across the CARA registries. The CARA Research Coordinator will coordinate research and registry projects, carry out tasks for IRB submissions, provide compensation to research participants,
conduct look-ups, process mailed items, data entry and cleaning tasks, and assist in developing assorted communication materials. They will also coordinate large-scale events and campaigns to promote the registries, collect data, and collect DNA when applicable. This position will also support secondary data access for the registries by coordinating data access requests, and tracking data sharing and impact metrics for reporting purposes. The Research Coordinator may also support special projects, field communications from registry participants, process data entry tasks, administrative tasks, and initiatives for the CARA Core. This position will handle confidential data and requires attention to detail and high organization skills.
Each agency within the Commonwealth of Virginia is dedicated to recruiting, supporting, and maintaining a competent and diverse work force. Equal Opportunity Employer