Clinical Research Assistant- Cardiovascular Genetics

• Assist with participant recruitment, screening, informed consent, and longitudinal follow-up, communicate study information to families, communicate all policies and procedures, and respond to all inquiries.
• Prepare study-related materials, including REDCap instruments, workflows, and educational materials for patients and families.
• Collect, enter, and maintain clinical data, electrocardiograms, imaging results (e.g., echocardiograms, MRI), and genetic information in study databases.
• Assist with data extraction from electronic health records (e.g., EPIC) and adjudication of clinical events.
• Coordinate blood, saliva, and tissue sample collection with clinical teams, label, process, and ship biospecimens to collaborating laboratories following study SOPs.
• Assist with IRB submissions, regulatory documents, continuing reviews, and protocol amendments; Maintain study binders, SOPs
• Coordinate study meetings, take minutes, and follow up on action items with investigators and research collaborators, support data monitoring, assist with manuscript preparation.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., biology, neuroscience, physiology, public health, biomedical engineering).
• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, attention to detail.
• Experience with patient interaction in clinical, research, or healthcare settings.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, REDCap, or similar research data platforms.

• Experience with cardiology or genomics research, especially in inherited arrhythmia or cardiomyopathy disorders.
• Familiarity with ECG interpretation, cardiac imaging, or clinical event adjudication (training provided).
• Prior experience with IRB/regulatory processes.
• Experience with EPIC or other EMR systems.
• Comfort with basic statistics, data visualization, or analytic tools (e.g., R, Python, STATA).

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.