Research Technician

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Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Data cleaning and management: RA will focus on cleaning de-identified datasets and preparing datasets for analysis. Data confidentiality and integrity must be always maintained (full CITI and HIPPA trainings are required for this work). Data will come from a variety of sources (e.g., surveys, focus groups, etc.). Instruments measuring program outcomes, developed by the Director, will typically be given before and after programming. Existing data from administrative materials may be used if applicable and appropriate. Data from instruments and other sources (multiple sources) must be merged and cleaned for usage. Merging may need to be updated as more institutional research data becomes available. Candidates must be able to maintain detailed, comprehensive notes on data cleaning actions (recoding, values, missing data, etc.). Proficiency in Excel and/or Stata or another statistical analysis software is necessary.
Secondary duty - Descriptive and statistical analysis: At times, RA may be asked to complete simple analysis on variables (continuous, scale, dichotomous). For example, using descriptive statistics, producing simple summaries and charts, paired t-tests, etc.

Tertiary duty - Create presentations and reports with results: Occasionally, the Director will need support pulling descriptive statistics, charts, statistical analyses, etc. into a presentation or other report.

Other activities: Coordinate and manage tasks in conjunction with Dr. Varkey. Conduct simple literature reviews. Opportunity to co-author papers if contributions merit - specifically writing literature reviews, data, and/or methods sections.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Candidates must be able to maintain detailed, comprehensive notes on data cleaning actions (recoding, values, missing data, etc.). Proficiency in Excel and/or Stata or another statistical analysis software is necessary.

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