"Clinical Research Assistant-Center for Adolescent Behavioral Health"

Position Summary/ Department Summary

The Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine is seeking a Clinical Research Assistant to work with faculty researchers within the Center for Adolescent Behavioral Health Research (CABHRe). The CRA will primarily be responsible for supporting a cannabis-related study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, including recruiting and enrolling study participants, implementing day-to-day study activities, and assisting with other study support activities. The CRA may also dedicate a portion of time to supporting other research studies in CABHRe or the Division. This position is full-time and is expected to span 1 year (approximately April 2026 through February 2027) with the possibility to extend (subject to funding). This position is looking for someone to start ASAP.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruits and obtains consent from participants for research studies through survey administration, personal interviews (in-person or remotely), and/or written communications. Please note: 1) This study requires reimbursed travel between study sites in the Boston area. 2) This study requires occasional evening and weekend availability.
• Serves as liaison to the participants in the research studies, guiding and advising them throughout each phase of the study.
• Develops materials seen and used by research participants, such as designing recruitment advertisements and programming study surveys.
• Manages study data and documentation, including completed surveys, informed consent forms, study tracking logs, and staff training logs.
• Helps to coordinate members of the Boston Children's Hospital study team and their collaborators to ensure rigorous study implementation.
• Performs literature searches, assists with data entry/cleaning/analysis, and supports scientific manuscript preparation for journal publication on topics related to ongoing research.
• Assists with Institutional Review Board submissions and with annual reports and other documents required by grant(s).
• Manages and supports updating of websites related to CABHRe, making sure they are in compliance with grant-specific and BCH policies.
• Assist with administrative tasks and other projects as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in public health, education, psychology, social sciences or biological sciences field and relevant work/research experience.

Experience:

• Experience and interest in adolescent health, public health, psychology, tobacco/nicotine, substance use, epidemiology, and statistical methods preferred.
• Excellent verbal communication skills essential.
• Excellent writing skills essential.
• Ability to maintain participant data confidentiality and adhere to study protocol.
• Experience and comfort using computer applications (Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) (essential), data collection and management tools (Qualtrics, REDCap) (preferred), statistical software (SPSS, etc.) (preferred), and website management tools (preferred).
• Ability to take initiative, work without direct supervision, multi-task, work on multiple projects with changing deadlines.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Posted: 27-Mar-26
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Salary: 41,246.40 - 61,339.20