Clinical Research Assistant I-Center for Adolescent Behavioral Health

Position Summary/ Department Summary:
The Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine is seeking a Clinical Research Assistant I to work with faculty researcher Lydia Shrier, MD, MPH on her ongoing research about adolescent/young adult cannabis use within the Center for Adolescent Behavioral Health Research (CABHRe). As a CRA-I, this person will be responsible for supporting an array of research activities on a new study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), including screening, consenting, and recruitment of participants and implementation of any other study support activities. This position is full-time and expected to span 1 year (approximately Sept 2025 to Aug 2026) with the possibility to extend.
Key Responsibilities:

• Consents and recruits participants for research studies through survey administration, personal interviews in-person or remotely, and/or written communications. Please note that this requires some 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 (e.g., 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 (IRB) 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, assists 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, substance use, epidemiology, and statistical methods preferred.
• Excellent verbal communication skills are essential.
• Excellent writing skills are 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 management tools (REDCap), statistical software (SPSS, etc.), and website management tools (preferred).
• Ability to take initiative, work without direct supervision, multitask, and work on multiple projects with changing deadlines.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Boston Children's Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits including flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.