About the Role
The Research Assistant/Project Manager provides project management, analytical, and administrative support for research initiatives focused on advancing the use of digital health in applied clinical informatics research. This role offers significant advantages including insight into academic medical center functions, potential for publication authorship, and direct contribution to improving clinical care. The position encourages leveraging training and learning opportunities within relevant institutes.
Responsibilities
- Coordinating project activities
- Scheduling and facilitating meetings
- Documenting decisions and action items
- Developing and maintaining project timelines, work plans, and project documentation
- Supporting communication among investigators, project staff, and external stakeholders
- Supporting research implementation activities through development of study materials
- Participant outreach and coordination
- Tracking project progress and deliverables
- Conducting literature reviews
- Preparing reports and presentations
- Proofreading manuscripts
- Managing references
- Maintaining project tracking systems
- Monitoring compliance requirements (e.g., IRB submissions, training requirements)
- Tracking grant and reporting deadlines
- Providing administrative support such as processing purchase orders and invoices
Requirements
- Works with Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) faculty and staff
- Collaborates closely with external researchers and clinical and business stakeholders within the UCSF Health system
About the Company
- The Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) serves as the academic home for applied clinical informatics researchers within the UCSF Department of Medicine.
- DoC-IT also serves as a coordinating entity with key internal and external digital stakeholders across all UCSF mission areas, schools, departments, and divisions.
- The Division has close ties to the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute and the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.
- DoC-IT is the home of two research centers and several other initiatives, including: The Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR), The Center to Advance Digital Physician Practice Transformation (ADAPT), UCSF’s Clinical Informatics Fellowship, the Coordinating Center for Diagnostic Excellence (CoDEx), and the Impact Monitoring Platform for AI in Clinical Care (IMPACC).
