About the Role
The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences is seeking a Program Coordinator I for the Brain Stimulation Division to assist with coordinating, planning, and implementing research protocols. This role includes subject recruitment, testing, sample selection, and data recording in human research. It also offers career development mentoring for those interested in graduate studies in medicine, neuroscience, psychology, or related fields. The position involves assisting with studies on non-invasive brain stimulation for improving cognition and emotion regulation in healthy participants and patients with neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
Responsibilities
- Assist with recruitment and screening of research participants, including developing advertising materials, contacting potential participants, and collaborating with providers and researchers.
- Obtain informed consent, enroll study participants, conduct study visits per protocols, and provide educational information to subjects.
- Assist with non-invasive brain stimulation sessions.
- Conduct study visits before and after regular working hours as needed to accommodate participant schedules and MRI availability.
- Coordinate data management and collection according to protocol requirements and compliance, maintaining behavioral, diagnostic, and EEG/fMRI/physiological data.
- Retrieve data from large databases for reporting and analysis.
- Initiate and maintain accurate records as required by the FDA, IRB, sponsors, and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines.
- Schedule and participate in sponsor and/or IRB monitoring visits to review study protocols and collected data.
- Attend weekly staff meetings to review study progress.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree and one year of relevant program experience.
- Ability to perform job functions in an upright position.
- Ability to perform job functions in a seated position.
- Ability to perform job functions while walking/mobile.
- Ability to work indoors.
- Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders.
- Ability to reach in all directions.
- Possess good finger dexterity.
- Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions.
- Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes.
- Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand.
- Ability to see and recognize objects at a distance.
- Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception.
- Good peripheral vision capabilities.
- Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction.
- Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements.
Skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Computer word and data processing programs
- Microsoft Office
- MATLAB
- R
- SPSS
Location
- Charleston, SC
Work Type
- Employee
- Research Grant
- Hourly
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Engineering, Computer Science or related field is preferred.
Salary/Compensations
- 45,300.00 - 61,100.00 - 77,000.000
About the Company
- The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is a leading academic medical center focused on patient care, education, and research.
- MUSC attracts over $250 million annually in research funding.
- The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program aims to accelerate the availability of new treatments to patients.
- MUSC Health operates a 750-bed medical center, including a nationally recognized Children's Hospital, Hollings Cancer Center (an NCI-designated center), a Level I Trauma Center, and the Institute of Psychiatry.
- MUSC Health also has over 100 outreach clinics, hospital affiliations, and telehealth sites.
- U.S. News & World Report ranks MUSC among the top one percent of all American hospitals, with 11 specialties in the top 50.
- The MUSC Medical Center is one of only three Magnet® designated hospitals in South Carolina.
Equal Opportunity
- The Medical University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- MUSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by state laws and/or federal regulations.
- All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need.
- Medical University of South Carolina participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.
