About the Role
The Clinical Research Coordinator will support data activities for clinical cohorts and biorepositories, contributing to quality assurance, standardization, and release of datasets. They will also handle data queries, prepare descriptive statistics, and promote SFARI's research goals by providing high-quality public data resources.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to data quality/cleaning and release efforts for all SFARI cohorts, biorepositories, and other clinical data sets.
- Support data standardization efforts across cohorts, biorepositories, and datasets hosted by SFARI, and test workflows for clinical issues/accuracy.
- Assist with developing and testing relevant data collection and review platforms.
- Assist the Informatics team in gathering requirements for software development related to data collection and release.
- Update SFARI Base documentation (welcome packets, data dictionaries, release notes, etc.).
- Assist with curating phenotypic data from clinical cohorts and biorepositories.
- Prepare data for internal and external inquiries, publications, posters, presentations, and community reports.
- Collaborate with SFARI Clinical Research Manager, SFARI Vice President and Senior Scientific Officer, and Communications team to develop effective methods to disseminate reports and other relevant information to participant and research communities (e.g., webinars, articles, social media, etc.).
- Work on other data-related projects at the Simons Foundation as needed (e.g., answering questions from internal staff or external researchers).
- Perform other duties or tasks as assigned or required.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree required
- Masters degree or 2+ years’ experience in related research or clinical field using the above skills preferred
- Experience with human participants research preferred
- Experience with data entry, scoring and/or summarizing surveys and common psychological measures (e.g., IQ tests, ASD instruments such as ADOS, ADI, SCQ etc., a plus) and familiarity with interpretation of measures and scores
- Proficiency with basic data “cleaning” and preparing descriptive statistics with social science data
- Experience with SQL, programming (e.g., R), and/or using Excel functions and formulas to manipulate data and perform quality control
- Experience with preparing graphics (such as histograms) and figures for publication, conference posters and presentations
- Familiarity with ASD and other neurodevelopmental disorders
- Must be detail oriented with excellent organizational skills and logical reasoning ability
- Must be self-motivated with the ability to take on independent tasks and work collaboratively with others
- Solution-focused and able to solve problems effectively
- Ability to balance workload under deadlines and multiple commitments
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Sound judgment and discretion
- Punctual and reliable
- Commitment to the mission of the Simons Foundation to advance basic science and mathematics
Skills
- SQL
- R
- Excel functions and formulas
- Data cleaning
- Descriptive statistics
- Data entry
- Data scoring
- Data summarization
- Survey administration
- Psychological measure interpretation
- Graphic preparation (histograms)
- Figure preparation
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Organizational skills
- Logical reasoning
- Problem-solving
- Time management
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 2+ years experience in related research or clinical field preferred
Education Level
- Bachelors degree
- Masters degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $72,000-$82,000 annually
Benefits
- Outstanding benefits package
About the Company
- The Simons Foundation's mission is to advance basic science and mathematics to benefit humankind and expand our collective understanding of our world.
- The foundation supports partners, programs, and initiatives that seek to broaden the scientific community and open pathways to science and mathematics careers.
Equal Opportunity
- The Simons Foundation provides equal opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic disposition, neurodiversity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected category under federal, state, and local law.
