Research Coordinator

Dr. Anish Agarwal (Department of Emergency Medicine at the School of Medicine and Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation) and Dr. Sharath Guntuku (Computer Science) at the University of Pennsylvania are hiring a Research Coordinator to play a key role in the collection and analysis of qualitative data, as well as coordination and support for survey data collection, analyses, and related study documents for two projects on precision public health communication and health misinformation using social media data.

The coordinator will also assist with Institutional Review Board (IRB) filings and inquiries, assist in the preparation of manuscripts, grant proposals, and research-related presentations, and interface with stakeholders while working closely with the investigators, project manager, and study team to identify problems and develop solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct qualitative interviews: recruit and enroll participants (remote) for qualitative interviews. Conduct qualitative interviews with participants. Conduct quality checks on completed interview transcripts.
• Code interview transcripts: create comprehensive codebook in collaboration with PI, project manager, and other team members; code interview transcripts under supervision of PI and project manager; meet regularly to review, discuss, and reconcile discrepancies and adjust codebook as needed
• Recruit and enroll participants for online study: work with project manager to create online data collection and participant tracking infrastructure in REDCap/Qualtrics. Send remote outreach to potential participants.
• Support lab with small projects including, but not limited to: literature searches and reviews, researching relevant topics or current events, outreach to external departments and compiling data for reports under the supervision of a senior team member.
• Assist in preparation and submission of regulatory documents (including continuing review and modifications) to the University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board.