Student Research Worker

• Job Type: Short Term Casual
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Temporary
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 10
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $22.50 -$22.50

Position Summary

The School of Nursing is looking to hire a Columbia University student to assist (in-office) with nationwide research studies exploring infection prevention and control or hospice use in post-acute care settings. The candidate will work with a team of researchers at the Center for Health Policy at the Columbia University School of Nursing.

Responsibilities

Duties will include:

• Assisting with programming national surveys in RedCAP or Qualtrics;
• Assisting with data management;
• Assisting with data cleaning in R or Stata, specifically survey responses;
• Assisting with statistical analyses of survey responses and publicly available datasets in R or Stata;
• Conducting literature searches;
• Providing assistance with conference presentations and posters: o Formatting posters according to conference instructions; o Inputting data into tables and generating graphs for posters and PowerPoint presentations;

• Providing assistance with manuscript publishing and grant writing:
  
  
  
  • Formatting according to author and grant guidelines;
  • Inputting data into tables and generating graphs;
  
  
  
  
• Attending weekly research-related meetings (via Zoom), and;
• Performing other related duties, as assigned.

This is a grant-funded position and continued employment is contingent upon the grant.

Minimum Qualifications

- Requires a bachelor's degree.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work well in a team. Proficiency/experience in biostatistics, statistical analyses, data visualization or data science. Working knowledge of R to perform basic commands.

Preferred Qualifications

Previous research experience, working knowledge of Stata, and familiarity with Qualtrics or RedCAP is desired.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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