"Junior or Assistant Specialist 2025"

University of California Irvine
Junior or Assistant Specialist 2025

Position overview

Salary range: A reasonable estimate for this position is $55,000-$70,700 for Exempt and $26.35-$33.87 for Non-Exempt. See Specialist Series Exempt table and Specialist Series Non-Exempt table.

Application Window

Open date: July 3, 2025
Next review date: Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Thursday, Apr 30, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Position description

The Department of Radiology at the University of California, Irvine is accepting applications for Junior or Assistant Specialists. This is a one year appointment, non-senate, and is renewable based on performance and availability of funding.
The position involves assisting faculty with research investigation in the health services research. Areas of research include costs of care discussion with patients, improving patients' care adherence, shared decision making, patient preferences, and health disparities predominantly in patients with cancer, but also other health conditions.

Incumbent is expected to make scientific and scholarly contributions to the research enterprise. Incumbent will assume responsibilities including: 1) providing support for recruitment and participant engagement; 2) maintaining study database (RedCAP); creating data reports; 3) conducting literature reviews; 4) assisting with protocol development and IRB submission; 5) assisting with presentations, reports, and manuscript writing; 6) assisting with training and supervising student research assistants; and assisting with other tasks as needed. There is close collaboration with other departments and institutions.

The Sadigh Lab is renowned for expertise in health services research. The overarching mission of the Sadigh Laboratory is to improve evidence-based health care delivery. The group has a proven track-record of obtaining competitive R01 funding.

Potential projects in the Sadigh Lab include:
- Prospective clinical trials to assess impact of behavioral or social interventions on patient-reported outcomes. There will be potential to work on two R01 project (1) testing the effectiveness of a mobile health intervention on improving adherence to oral chemotherapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer; (2) testing the effectiveness of out of pocket cost communication and financial navigation on improving patients care adherence. There will be involvement with additional clinical trials focused on improving adherence to lung cancer screening.
- Secondary data analysis of big national databases to assess health disparity and impact on healthcare use.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with medical research and scientific writing. Experience in health services research is desirable.
Collaborative: performs as a team member with good interpersonal skills Strong analytical and organizational skills; detail-oriented
Ability to work independently and in a multidisciplinary team Contribute to manuscript preparation, IRB submission and grant writing
Priority will be given to candidates with excellent written/spoken English and Spanish or Vietnamese, given potential for recruit of Spanish-speaking and Vietnamese speaking research participants.

Substantive inquiries about the positions should be directed to:
Gelareh Sadigh, MD
Associate Professor-in-Residence
Director of Radiology Health Services and Comparative Outcome Research Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiological Sciences
University of California Irvine
gsadigh@uci.edu

Qualifications

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Junior Specialist requirement: Appointees to the Junior rank should possess a baccalaureate degree (or equivalent degree) or equivalent research experience.
Assistant Specialist requirements: Appointees to the Assistant rank should possess a master's degree (or equivalent degree) or five years of experience demonstrating expertise in the relevant specialization.

Application Requirements

Document requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Reference requirements
3-4 required (contact information only)

Apply link: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09722

Job location
Irvine, CA