About this role
Leidos is a company focused on advancing the mission of the United States Navy through innovative research. They are seeking a Research Assistant III to support clinical and experimental research, particularly in understanding human performance under various stressors in aerospace environments.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct research, serving as research assistant III, study team lead, collecting data and acting on behalf of a PI if needed, by following research protocols
- Make independent decisions on subject, research assistant, and intern safety
- Determine if/when it is appropriate to begin data collection, daily
- Determine who can participate in studies based on subject criteria
- Use professional judgement to determine when to start or stop a study at any time
- May perform all recruiting for studies
- Manage day-to-day government research lab operations, applied operational based tasks for warfighter performance and research applications for perceptual modeling and simulation
- Support the research process across the project's lifecycle, including but not limited to reviewing literature, performing pilot testing, preparing research protocols, developing experimental procedures, screening, and scheduling of study participants, conducting research through surveys, interviews, observations, and other data collection methods
- Coordinate the implementation of sponsored and PI initiated research studies, including regulatory requirements, maintenance of files/study records and all activities associated with internal and external audits in coordination with the PI
- Coordinate scheduling and screening of research subjects and data collection. This includes participant recruitment and direct interaction with participants, scheduling and screening study participants, data collection, management, and analysis
- Prepare paperwork for the PI required for human subjects and/or animal use research approval and ensure compliance with rules and regulations, including human subjects and/or animal use research approval
- Make recommendations to the PI for study proposal design, modify and plan research experiments, procedures, tests, or survey instruments; recommend research design and develop a study budget
- Perform as team lead, design study tasks, and independently modify these tasks based on designing and testing of the tasks and instrumentation
- Make recommendations regarding what does or does not work for these task designs in relation to the overall study design
- Prepare presentations, posters and sections of material for written published articles as well as proposal authorship. This includes development of presentations and publications including literature searches and preparing bibliographies and preparing sections for presentations and written published articles
- Write abstracts and present research findings
- Take part in the write up of research articles
- May provide technical direction to other Research Assistants on the team according to study
- May assist and educate other research assistant personnel in the understanding and performance of their duties
- Prepare and analyze qualitative and quantitative data, such as univariate and multivariate analyses of variance, regression analysis, and descriptive summaries statistical analyses
- Design and develop data management procedures and processes; manage data in spreadsheets, including verification of data entry
- Analyze data independently and make judgments on whether to keep data points or throw them out (i.e. outliers, erroneous data due to equipment malfunction, etc.) Based on data analysis results, make recommendations to P.I. on whether or not data should be used or not used and suggest different statistical analyses, interpret data findings, etc
- Develop standard operating procedures for laboratory instrumentation and equipment
- Clean and maintain instrumentation, equipment, and laboratories
- Monitor supply inventory and replenish stocks through established Command supply procedures
- Maintain laboratory instrumentation, equipment, and spaces