The Behavioral Medicine Research Laboratory (BMRL) at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is seeking a Research Assistant to support the reporting and analyses for a large pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial of knee osteoarthritis treatments (the HEAL SKOAP Study), and other studies conducted under the BMRL umbrella.

Specific duties & responsibilities:

The Research Assistant will support research data collection and management activities. Primary responsibilities are as follows:

• Manage datasets/variables and perform data cleaning
• Merge, create and recode variables to prepare data for analyses
• Develop data cleaning programs for new forms and run data cleaning programs for existing forms
• Develop and implement data quality assurance procedures to ensure validity and reliability of study results
• Create analysis datasets for use by other investigators.
• Serve as a quality control checkpoint person for analyses when needed
• Responsible for maintaining the integrity and security of data during data processing
• Proactively seek to improve or optimize workflow and discuss with coordinator/supervisor as appropriate
• Communicate with the Director of Informatics regularly with respect to data quality related issues

Other potential responsibilities:

• Develop analytical code for use in a highly collaborative environment.
• Write detailed documentation/specifications for analysis data sets and related files
• Perform and document analyses on large, complex datasets using statistical software packages.
• Work with investigators to in the performance of analyses.
• Create tables and figures in publication-quality form summarizing the results of statistical analyses and present results orally to study investigators.

Special knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Excellent organizational, communication and writing skills.
• Programming skills in R/SAS/STATA strongly preferred
• Prior experience working with large data sets, creating programs and generating tables, strongly preferred

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline.
• Additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Internship or similar experience helping with programming tasks and/or data analysis, preferably in a research setting

Classified Title: Research Assistant 
Role/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/03/CD  
Starting Salary Range: $17.20 - $30.30 HRLY ($49,400 targeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: M-F 8:30am-5pm 
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt 
Location: Johns Hopkins Bayview 
Department name: ​​​​​​​SOM Psy Behavioral Medicine 
Personnel area: School of Medicine