Research & Database Coordinator (Rheumatology) - Vancouver, Canada - UBC

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Description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category
M&P - AAPS

Job Profile
AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level A

Job Title
Research & Database Coordinator (Rheumatology)

Department
Tucker Laboratory | Department of Paediatrics | Faculty of Medicine

Compensation Range
$5, $7,485.33 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date
June 3, 2024

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

Jun 30, 2025

This offer is conditional upon successful completion of a Criminal Record Check.

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At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

JOB SUMMARY
To coordinate database and clinical research activities for the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics.

ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS

Position to whom this person reports: Dr. Lori Tucker, Division Head (for overall function); Dr. David Cabral (for database role); and individual investigators within the Division (for specific research studies).

Positions with whom this person works: All Division members involved in the Rheumatology research program, including physicians, allied health professionals, laboratory technicians, research coordinators, research assistants, undergraduate co-op students,, post-graduate students working on specific projects, collaborators, and divisional clerical support staff.

Contacts (internal and external to the University): Institutional Review Board (UBC) and Hospital Research Review Committee (C&W), finance departments at UBC, BCCHR, and PHSA, other individuals who are working in equivalent research positions either in the institution or in other institutions who are research collaborators, patients and parents of patients involved in research studies.

Shared office space in the Division of Rheumatology, Ambulatory Care Building, BC Children's Hospital. Desktop computer and telephone access available. Flexibility in work hours may be required.

WORK PERFORMED

As database coordinator:

Coordinate database activities for Rheumatology's REDCap instances

Design and develop study data collection tools, in collaboration with the Principal Investigators and/or study staff

Manage user account creation, passwords, log-in issues

Database modifications and updates

Produce reports and perform data exports based on requests from investigators

Troubleshoot issues and liaise with external data management consultants or IT staff

Data review, locking, query generation and resolution

Liaising with technical IT staff to periodically upgrade database software

As research coordinator:

Coordinate the clinical research activities for the Division of Rheumatology. This includes an international childhood vasculitis study led by Dr. David Cabral, and other smaller-scale national or local research studies

Submission and maintenance of research ethics approvals, renewals, amendments

Communicate with collaborators (investigators and research staff) and provide study updates and documents necessary for ethics, patient recruitment, and data / sample collection at 15-20 study sites

Liaise with the UILO and other institution's legal departments regarding clinical study agreements and budgets

Coordinate and balance complex schedules to arrange study team meetings, as well as meetings with internal and external collaborators. Work with investigators to generate meeting agendas, distribute meeting materials, and generate meeting minutes.

Participate in hiring and supervision of research assistants and/or undergraduate co-op students to carry out research studies in the clinics

CONSEQUENCE OF ERROR
Accuracy, timeliness, and sound judgment are required to maximize effectiveness of the research program.

The individual will need to exercise independent judgment, and feel comfortable working with a large and diverse team including physicians, nurses, allied health personnel, trainees, and administrative staff.

Poorly designed databases can result in higher study costs because of extra time spent dealing with data entry, data management and data analysis.

They can also result in making it difficult to perform effective data analysis affecti