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Req #: 245687

Department: PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Posting Date: 04/29/2025

Closing Info:

Closes On 05/06/2025

Salary: $3,664 - $4,541 per month

Limited Recruitment: **Open to UW Employees only**

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-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20220908\_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 within the School of Medicine with 330 full-time faculty members, 460 courtesy faculty members, and over 350 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 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. The Department’s robust research portfolio totals $67 million in grants and contracts per year 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. Psychiatry is the third largest department in the School of Medicine and the largest non-divisioned department. The overall annual operations funding from all sources is over $130 million.

The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine currently has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Study Coordinator 1.** **POSITION PURPOSE

With guidance from the Lead Research Coordinator, the Research Study Coordinator 1 will help support the Alcohol Research Consortium in HIV-Alcohol Relapse Prevention Intervention (ARCH RPI) research study. Led by researchers at the University of Washington and Johns Hopkins, the ARCH RPI study aims to test whether computer-delivered counseling and person-delivered counseling can help people with HIV maintain low risk alcohol use or abstain from alcohol. At the beginning of the study, the position will be in-person, at the UW Madison Clinic at Harborview Medical Center, located in downtown Seattle. The position will need to be on-site for at least 4 hours per day, in the morning, Monday through Thursday. Thereafter, the on-site schedule has potential to be flexible.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Recruit and obtain consent of participants from the UW Madison Clinic at Harborview Medical Center.

+ Track participants and make related calls.

+ Interface with multiple recruitment sites and develop recruitment materials as needed.

+ Administer Timeline Followback and Lifetime Drinking History interviews with eligible participants.

+ Administer PEth (blood spot test for the alcohol metabolite, phosphatidylethanol) and urine toxicology tests; securely package and ship PEth tests to laboratory.

+ Schedule and run research participants through the study protocol (e.g., setting participants up with tablets to complete the computer-deliver portions of the intervention).

+ Track, distribute, and keep records of participant incentives and implement other day-to-day study-related tasks (e.g., IRB modifications).

+ Attending weekly meetings with the PI/study team.

+ Conducting qualitative interviews with participants as needed.

+ Other duties as assigned. **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**

+ Two years of college level course work in a relevant academic area AND two years of experience performing work in support of clinical, biomedical, or behavioral research studies involving human subject, OR equivalent education/experience. **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Ability to self-motivate and work independently with supervision and as part of a team.

+ Competitive candidates will be attentive to detail, have strong interpersonal skills, and some prior research or hospital-based experience.

+ Experience with software applications including but not limited REDCap, MS Office (Onedrive, Outlook, Word and Excel), Twilio and/or Primas.

+ Excellent writing and communication skills, particularly in the context of collaborating with and coordinating investigators from multiple organizations.

+ Demonstrated ability to problem-solve effectively and collaboratively and manage concurrent tasks with flexibility and accountability.

+ Demonstrated experience and interest in assisting with research that involves people with HIV, mental health, and/or substance use concerns.

+ Demonstrated experience and interest in interacting with research subjects that have HIV, mental health, and/or substance use concerns.

+ Training in CITI Human Subjects and HIPAA Compliance protocols.

+ Interest in HIV, mental health, and/or substance use research.

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.