CARA Summer Intern

Job Details

Advertising Summary: Join VCU’s CARA Core this summer and gain hands-on experience at the intersection of data, research, and public health. As an intern, you’ll help build a public data dashboard, support research leadership initiatives, and contribute to impactful grant development—all while working with real-world registry data. Ideal candidates are organized, detail-oriented, and strong communicators who can balance multiple projects and thrive both independently and on a team. Experience with R or SAS and an interest in public health or epidemiology are a plus.

Unit: VP Research MBU

Department: Mid Atlantic Twin Registry

Department Summary: At the VCU Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, our mission is to foster transformative research, discovery, and innovation at Virginia Commonwealth University through service excellence.

We partner with faculty in all schools and departments as they seek funding, plan studies, establish collaborations, calculate budgets, submit grant applications, negotiate industry contracts, and secure patents and licensing agreements.

Our commitment to supporting and elevating the research community at VCU has resulted in record levels of sponsored research and has placed VCU among the nation’s premier public research universities.

Through our passion for discovery and willingness to take on challenges, we continue to advance the work that matters most and position the university as a national leader in research, innovation, creativity, and scholarship.

Duties & Responsibilities:

The VCU Cohort and Registries Administration (CARA) Core is looking for a summer intern. This position would be responsible for supporting the informatic and research roles of the core.

The intern would be responsible for supporting any of the following tasks:

• Development and implementation of a publicly facing data dashboard on available Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry (MATR) data
• Managing activities for the MATR Twin Advisory Board and community events
• Managing activities of an Executive Steering Committee of Researchers
• Supporting team activities in grant development

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a staff member at VCU.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to conduct and prioritize multiple competing tasks.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team setting.
• Ability to conduct and prioritize multiple competing tasks.
• Detail-oriented, conscientious, and organized with excellent time management skills.
• Ability to think independently and critically.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in R as well as SAS. Early users of these tools who have a willingness to learn are welcome to apply.
• Some training in public health concepts and epidemiological methods is preferred.

Salary Range: up to $20/hour commensurate with experience

Benefits: All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU’s robust benefits package that includes comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave, generous tuition benefits, retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more.

FLSA Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Hours per Week: 20

Restricted Position: Yes

ORP Eligible: No

Flexible Work Arrangement: Hybrid

University Job Title: 34111N - Clinical Research Coordinator 1