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Arizona State University is hiring a Project Coordinator, Research. The role involves coordinating two NIH-funded research projects focused on meditative movement practices for women with mobility impairments and implementing garden-based curricula in early education settings. The coordinator manages recruitment, data collection, retention strategies, and collaboration with stakeholders while supervising research staff and supporting project deliverables.

Highlights

Coordinate recruitment, screening, enrollment, and data management for human research projects.
Develop and implement participant retention strategies and assist with project materials and publications.
Use specialized lab equipment and conduct lab tests following scientific protocols.
Supervise research technicians, volunteers, graduate assistants, and student workers.
Manage project communications, scheduling, reporting, and ensure compliance with deliverables.
Required proficiency with research methods, data collection and analysis, and confidentiality principles.
Experience working with women with mobility impairing disabilities and recruiting via online/social media platforms.
Competence with web-based video platforms and ability to train technologically naive individuals.
Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and training.
Salary range between $58,000 and $62,000 annually, depending on experience; grant funded position.

Project Coordinator, Research Full Description

Job Profile:Administrative Operations Specialist 3

Job Family:Administrative Operations

Time Type:Full time

Max Pay - Depends on experience:$62,000.00 USD Annual

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Profile Summary:
Supports and instructs those served by the department with complex queries, applies specialized knowledge of multiple standards, policies and procedures, and maintains accurate and detailed records.

Job Description:

The ACCESO lab is seeking a project coordinator to advance the scientific aims of two recently funded NIH five year projects, which will include a combination of responsibilities related to human research. Job duties will include recruitment, screening, enrollment, and data collection and management. Duties will also include development and implementation of retention strategies, and assistance with developing project materials, reports, and publications. This individual will play an integral role in conducting research to 1) determine how virtually delivered meditative movement practice can help young mid-life women with mobility-impairing disabilities control cardiometabolic disease risk factors; and 2) to examine implementation strategies of garden-based curriculum in early care and education facilities. The candidate will work directly with the populations recruited into the respective research projects.

Salary Range: $58,000 - $62,000 per year; DOE

Essential Duties:

Regular activities require ability to quickly change priorities, which may include and/or are subject to resolution of conflicts
Use lab equipment (Measuring tape, Tanita scale, Accelerometry, Virtual assessment modalities)
Conduct lab tests using appropriate equipment and protocols
Use critical thinking to make decisions and/or analyze and report data/results of tests conducted
Deliver presentations to a variety of audiences
Initiate confidential correspondence on behalf of the project
Conduct interviews over the phone or in person
Supervise Staff and/or students
Work under supervision
Work independently
Work both independently and within a complex structured team
Able to exercise judgment within generally defined practices & policies to determine appropriate action
Use office equipment
Plays an integral role in conducting research aimed at recruiting and improving health behaviors in women with mobility impairing disabilities and engaging schools, staff and children in implementing gardens in preschools
Supervises and coordinates research recruitment, scientific data collection, data entry, data proofing, and analyses following scientific protocol
Works closely and collaboratively with study investigators and stakeholders to achieve project scope, strategy, budget, and outcomes
Assists in day-to-day management and overall success of project implementation, including compliance and accountability for required deliverables; supports detailed project planning and tracks deadlines
Supervises research technicians, volunteers, graduate research assistants and student workers to ensure optimal outcomes
Trains students in the operation of equipment and/or in the performance of technical procedures
Develops and facilitates meetings as needed; coordinates logistics, scheduling, notetaking and participant communications
Manages communication between, and serves as liaison for, all project stakeholders
Anticipates and responds to concerns or challenges; generates appropriate solutions or escalates as needed
Prepares and maintains all project status reports; tracks milestones/deliverables and ensures all project deliverables, activities and objectives are completed on time and satisfactorily
Develops and implements project management systems for activities, timelines, and milestones and supervises staff to assure the deliverables
Contributes to the development of reports, fact sheets, conference posters and other dissemination documents as needed
All other duties as assigned

Desired Qualifications:

Ability to clearly communicate to perform essential functions
Use of basic math and a calculator
Experience developing and maintaining cooperative and collaborative working relationships among external partners, especially with culturally diverse and differently abled groups of people
Experience working on a federally sponsored project or research study and the associated administrative, regulatory and budgetary systems and reporting
Demonstrate strong time-management and ability to prioritize routine and high-level tasks
Experience using web-based video platforms
Experience in fielding potential adverse events and working with study investigators to report
Demonstrated knowledge of the principles and techniques of research recruitment, enrollment, retention, and participant confidentiality
Demonstrated knowledge of research methods, data collection, data entry, data proofing and analyses
Experience in performing in a professional manner and in collaboration with a variety of individuals
Experience working with women with mobility impairing disabilities
Experience recruiting for research studies using online and social media platforms
Experience with implementing physically active, nutrition related and/or meditation based interventions
Experience providing training to technologically naïve individuals
Experience working with undergraduate trainees
Experience prioritizing workload

Working Environment:

Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding and manipulating a computer mouse
Work in a lab setting

Department Statement:

The Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation is distinguished as a model for excellence and inspiration in nursing and interprofessional practice, education and research to advance knowledge and innovative practice models, and new solutions to optimize the health and well-being of our diverse local, national and global communities.

Project Statement:

The REmote Virtual Intervention: Inspiring Vitality and Energy (REVIVE) study will recruit a national, diverse sample of mid-life (aged 35-64 years) women with mobility impairment with high risk waist circumference. All measures and intervention implementation will be conducted virtually using digital methods. We will determine whether women who are randomly allocated to a 12 week seated tai chi and qigong intervention experience reductions in cardiometabolic risk factors, compared to a health education control. We also expect that participants in the tai chi and qigong arm will experience improvements in stress, emotions, healthy eating and sleep. We will also use study data to explore a model of biobehavioral mechanisms by which tai chi and qigong may reduce abdominal fat via physiological and behavioral pathways. Expected findings may improve healthy aging for women with mobility impairing disabilities, and improve understanding of biobehavioral mechanisms to inform future research and practice. Sustainability via Active Garden Education (SAGE) is a garden-based program to increase physical activity, improve nutrition and enhance child development in underserved early care and education (ECE, i.e., preschool) facilities. Co-developed through a CBPR process, SAGE changes the preschool environment by adding a garden and supplying materials and training for teachers to deliver the evidence-based SAGE curriculum, crafted to meet policy standards and best-practice guidelines. SAGE uses the plant lifecycle as a metaphor for human development and is popular among teachers, kids and parents alike. The current award, in collaboration with researchers from Texas A&M and Penn State, SAGE Wellness Implementation Strategies in ECE--or SAGE WISE--will test the efficacy of in person vs. virtual implementation strategies and incorporate a virtual learning collaborative using a rigorous implementation science approach.

Driving Requirement:Driving is not required for this position.

Location:Campus: Downtown Phoenix

Funding:Grant Funded

Instructions to Apply:

Current Employees and Students should apply directly within Workdayusing the Jobs Hub. Use this link and log in using SSO:

https://www.myworkday.com/asu/d/inst/1$9925/9925$14282.htmld

To be considered, your application must include all of the following attachments:

Cover letter
Resume/CV

Note: Multiple documents can be submitted into the attachment box. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission.

Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position. Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position. NOTE: GA and Intern positions are counted as .5 for job experience (ie. 1 year equals 6 months experience equivalency). Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.

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