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Req #: 239386

Department: PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Posting Date: 09/30/2024

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $4,054 - $7,500 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf )

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department with over 300 full-time faculty members, over 400 courtesy/affiliate faculty members, 132 trainees and over 300 staff with an annual budget of over $110m. Department faculty provide clinical services in the University of Washington School of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center-Montlake and Northwest and Harborview Medical Center. Faculty members also serve at Seattle Children's Hospital, the Veteran’s Administration Puget Sound Healthcare System, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; which comprise 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites; in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest and is the largest program in the United States. We offer 26 graduate medical education programs, including the Psychiatry Residency and Clinical Psychology Intern/Resident programs, 24 subspecialty clinical fellowships (ACGME & Non-ACGME), and required and elective medical student clerkships for 276 students. In addition, our education program runs 6 workforce training programs for mental health practitioners across Washington State and the Pacific Northwest Region.

The Department’s robust research portfolio reached $55 million in grant and contract awards in fiscal year 2023 for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting for a full time Research Coordinator. POSITION PURPOSE This position is housed in the University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and involves being an integral support to research conducted by faculty in the BRiTE Center, the School of Medicine’s flagship center focused on digital mental health. Led by Dr. Dror Ben-Zeev, the BRiTE Center is an exciting, mission driven, highly collaborative, and intellectually stimulating work environment. BRiTE Center faculty and staff work in teams taking on challenging projects in the U.S. and globally. The position will involve collaborations with research groups within the center and university, across the country, and internationally. The BRiTE Center Research Coordinator position will work collaboratively to coordinate research projects designed to improve mental health outcomes, act as a clinical assessor interacting with clients who experience hallucinations and monitoring data as part of a NIMH-funded nation-wide study, serve as a BRiTE Center coordinator by coordinating BRiTE Center activities such as guest speakers and other center-wide activities, and working collaboratively with other research groups to advance the center’s vision, values, training capacities, and impact.

Position Complexities: Employee will be expected to use independent judgement in dealing with external organizations and partners and clients with serious mental illness, as well as internal faculty and staff, and to work independently to follow and resolve issues with complex research protocols and external and internal regulator policies.

Position Dimensions and Impact to the University: The position will enable the successful execution of externally funded research studies. The position will represent the University as a leader in research for severe mental illness and to those who participate in the study or learn about the study through dissemination efforts

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Research (50%)

• Study Planning: In collaboration with PI, prepare relevant portions of grant applications, ensuring compliance of submission with sponsor requirements. Research literature and consult with other investigators within and outside of the institution to identify and resolve complex issues or problems. Assess feasibility of proposed research investigations and prepare analysis of project costs.

• Study Recruitment: Responsible for overseeing and conducting recruitment of participants with severe mental illness including recruitment of study participants through traditional methods and web-based ads.

• Study Operations: Designs and performs all activities related to the project using sophisticated research and data management techniques. Troubleshoots research protocols and techniques as needed. Manages participant tracking throughout study.

• Clinical: Act as a clinical assessor working directly with participants to support the administration of all study measures, providing troubleshooting technical support as needed, and answering questions regarding enrollment or assessment throughout all study phases. Monitors incoming data from participants who experience hallucinations.Administration/Management (20%)

• Study Management: Meticulously tracks and coordinates project progress by maintaining assessment schedules and project timelines. Routinely keeps research manager informed of project status and potential problem areas. Assures deadlines are met, notifies all partners of impeding deadlines to assure compliance. Establishes and coordinates research protocol procedures in adherence to protocol requirements. Assures that all federal funding requirements are met. Coordinates logistics of meetings.

• Team Communication: Serves as the primary liaison with partners. Communicates with the Research Manager, Center Investigators as well as future study sites and decentralized project staff as needed. Provides ongoing facilitation, consultation and technical assistance to on-site and decentralized project staff as requested or needed. Systematically tracks funding opportunities, publications, and other developments relevant to the PI and Center.Center Coordination (10%)

• Coordinate Events: Understand the needs and goals of the center to organize and manage center activities including coordinating guest speakers, center-wide meetings, and team-building activities.

• Onboard New Hires: Assist in integrating new hires to the center by orienting new hires to the center’s processes, culture, and space.

• Work with the center director and other faculty members to organize and manage new and existing programs of research.Dissemination/Communication (10%)

• Publication Preparation: Work with the PI and other Investigators to ensure information disseminated to scientists, technologists, providers, and the public is current, appropriate, and accurate. Oversees preparation of PI documents, presentations, and external correspondence. Assists in preparation of findings for grant proposals, reports, publications, and other research projects. Prepares dissemination materials for the Center’s efforts including print, email listservs, online websites, and mobile social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Medical Mingle). Organizes and facilitates in-person and webinar-based conferences.

• Literature Reviews: Assists in preparing literature reviews for proposals, peer-reviewed publications and other projects as needed.Staff Supervision (5%)

• May supervise study staff.

• Trains and evaluates staff and student assistants to meet changing department needs. Ensure staff meet the protection of human subjects in practice (correspondence, storage of research materials, data collection, etc.)Other (5%)

• Travel: Domestic and international travel to visit collaborating institutions/investigators as needed.

• Performs other duties as assigned. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in psychology, counseling, public health, social work, global health, or a related field; or equivalent experience.

• One year of related work experience. Experience with coordinating large federal research studies preferred.

• Strong organizational, attention to detail, and ability to think critically to anticipate project needs. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate degree in relevant discipline.

• Experience supporting digital intervention / mobile health development and research.

• Experience working with collaborators from diverse professional backgrounds (e.g., technologists, community mental health providers, paraprofessionals).

• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and other backgrounds. Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.