Research Associate I – Health Sciences Research Project - Chicago Loop Hybrid Office

The role will be supporting a large-scale, long-term NIH funded research initiative designed to advance precision medicine by building one of the most comprehensive and diverse health databases in the United States. The initiative aims to collect multiple types of health information on participants, including electronic health records, surveys, genomic data, physical measurements, biospecimens, environmental information, and data from wearable technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support activities through documentation and administrative coordination.
• Taking supporting role on key tasks related to research design, data collection and analysis while helping the Project Manager keep tasks on track
• Maintain project documentation, processes, and data-related records.
• Track deliverables, deadlines, and action items.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical team members.
• Develop training materials for internal users of technical systems.
• Create user guides, job aids, and other instructional resources.
• Translate technical processes into clear, easy-to-understand content.
• Maintain and update training documentation as systems and processes evolve.
• Track attendance, completion rates, and training records using learning management systems (LMS).
• Leverage AI tools to enhance training materials, improving learner engagement, readability, and accessibility.
• Conduct background research including literature reviews, environmental scans, draft memos, summaries, and sections of reports under direction of more senior staff
• Serve as a liaison with other departments (e.g., TSSO, Statistics, IT, etc.) to execute project plans.
• Provide general support on proposals and projects related to health research.
• Takes meeting notes and prepares meeting summaries.
• Supports proposal development efforts through coordination of document preparation and reproduction.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in health policy, public health, public administration, sociology, or other social science-related field.
• 6 months of research experience (internships included) in social sciences with qualitative and/or quantitative methods and analysis required.
• Outstanding interpersonal, critical reasoning, analytic, and writing skills.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Demonstrated attentiveness to detailed tasks, strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to meet multiple requirements simultaneously, and to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including MS Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive.
• Experience conducting analysis using standard statistical software packages (e.g., R, Python) is beneficial.
• Experience with Absorb/Articulate is beneficial.
• Occasional travel for site visits and meetings may be required.