IVY Lab Hourly Research Coordinator

VCU Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies


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VCU's Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation and the Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies (IDAS) invites all interested candidates to apply for our exciting Hourly Clinical Research Coordinator position! (IF IDAS, also include: IDAS advances multidisciplinary research and training on the neuroscience of addictions and related neurobehavioral disorders.) VCU is UNLIKE the rest. Our impact is measured one student and patient at a time.VCU’s unequaled combination of excellence, diversity, research and creativity makes success possible for every one of our 300,000+ “RAMily” members. And that makes us one of the most innovative universities in the country. A premier, urban, public research university nationally recognized as one of the best employers for diversity, VCU is a great place to work. It's a place of opportunity, where your success is supported and your career can thrive.

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Position Primary Purpose and General Duties:

There is an open for an hourly research coordinator po-sition with the VCU Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies. The VCU Institute for Alcohol and Alcohol Studies conducts research across the translational science spectrum related to substance use disorders (SUD), from population-level epidemiologic studies to mechanistic neuroimaging studies. Addiction is a chronic, treatable medical condition with biopsychosocial complexity, and the science that informs interventions targeting addiction warrants a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach. Many IDAS studies are focused on informing the development and implementation of innovative, better treatment options for individuals seeking SUD recovery.

The research coordinator will work on IDAS research-related activities that focus on elucidating the roles biological factors, such as biological sex, neurofunctional and psychosocial contexts, such as so-cial determinants of health, play in the recovery of people with opioid and other substance use disorders. Projects are largely focused on employing translational science strategies to identify evidence-based avenues to improve the quality of substance use disorder treatments, such as for opioid use disorder (OUD) medication treatments with buprenorphine. Most studies are NIH funded and include a broad range of methodological approaches, including randomized clinical trials, cohort studies, anal-yses of nationally representative datasets, qualitative and community-engaged studies.

The hourly position will work on many aspects of our translational science projects with our multidisciplinary teams, largely those related to Dr. Martin’s projects with the In Recovery (IVY) Lab. The re-search coordinator will carry out duties to support the clinical research teams designing and carrying out studies, as well as assisting with dissemination of findings. Duties will include, but are not limited to, assisting with data entry, quality checking, data management, refinement of standardized operating procedures, preparing findings for oral and written dissemination, as well as organizing and leading team communications and study meetings.