Drug Checking & Project Specialist (Health, Behavior and Society)

Job Details

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

The Department of Health, Behavior & Society is seeking a Drug Checking & Project Specialist (DCPS) for Check It, which is an innovative, low-barrier mobile overdose- and HIV-prevention intervention that provides mobile point-of-care drug checking, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), wound care, syringes and other safer drug use supplies, and other services to people who use drugs in Baltimore and neighboring counties.

The Drug Checking & Project Specialist oversees the administrative and technical implementation of complex and/or multiple research projects. As part of the research team, collaborates with faculty to develop project plan(s), develop SOPs, and oversee all research-related activities for one or more complex projects.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Contribute as a member of a collaborative team to study design formulation.
• Participate in development, testing and evaluation of manuals, questionnaires, and coding structures, for the efficient collection of data.
• Develop and oversee design and implementation of study procedures and tools for data collection.
• Monitor and ensure team compliance with all protocols, procedures, and applicable regulations.
• Participate in developing study budgets.
• Set up data collection system and ensure validity of study data.
• Organize and quality control data.
• Recommend and implement changes to protocol operations based on results and goals.
• Based on the analysis of data, recommend and implement the next steps.
• Identify and suggest ideas for sub-studies.
• Extract data, review literature, and assist with preparation of manuscripts and presentations as appropriate.
• May oversee day-to-day activities and provide training for study staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

In Addition to the Duties Above

• Perform on-site point-of-care drug checking with an infrared spectrometer and test strips on mobile van and/or at fixed sites in partnership with local service providers.
• Collect, record, manage, and disseminate sample- and project-level data for a variety of audiences.
• Conduct community outreach; establish and maintain community relationships.
• Research, develop and implement communication.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field.
• Five years of related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in a related field