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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday through Friday; 8:00am - 5:00pm. Hours may vary
Posted Date
03/10/2025
Salary Range: $28.3 - 54.74 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
22942

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

It takes more than highly-specialized knowledge and insight to bring breakthrough discoveries to life. It requires a true passion for uncovering the unknown. At UCLA Health, that’s what our researchers bring to their critical work every day. Join the Department of Surgery as a full time Research Assistant and make a vital contribution to our incredible achievements.  The David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM), Department of Surgery is seeking to hire a full-time Research Assistant to join the Population-Health Research Unit (PHRU). This position presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-paced team responsible for providing the A-Zs of population health research–development, implementation, and dissemination. Under the direction of the PHRC Manager, the Research Assistant will work with a variety of personnel and leading health care researchers (i.e., Principal Investigators, Sub-Investigators, trainees, and national/international collaborators) to complete the following duties: 

  • The execution of operations to meet the mission and goals of the program / project assigned. 
  • Developing and producing deliverables including presentations, website, social media content, communications, and other materials.  This may include works related to IRB protocol submission and approval. 
  • Supporting the effort to ensure compliance with all UCLA as well as relevant federal and state regulations.  
  • Collaborating in works toward the completion of all program/project activities, research, outreach, and recruitment. Work with research participants on consent and surveys/interviews. 
  • Assisting with producing weekly status reports, schedules, and drafts documents, data collection/data clean up, and analysis. 
  • Creates materials, develops and maintains databases. 
  • Supporting all aspects of event planning from internal meetings to conferences and site visits. 
  • Supporting the team in the development and production of all program/project deliverables including reports, presentations, website, social media content, communication, and other materials.

At UCLA Health, our passion for discovery and our limitless curiosity have enabled us to become a world-renowned source of medical breakthroughs. In addition to the extensive medical research and clinical education capabilities of the David Geffen School of Medicine, we’re home to four award-winning hospitals and more than 270 community clinics throughout Southern California. If you’re looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, come to UCLA Health.


Pay Range: $28.30 - $54.74 hourly

Job Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 2-4 years of relevant experience.
  • Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams.
  • Demonstrated writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
  • Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.
  • Working knowledge of evaluation, creating datasets, grant writing and proposal submission.
  • Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.
  • Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations.
  • Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
  • Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.