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Join a Leading Team in Transforming Population Health Research
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA’s Department of Urology is seeking a passionate and driven Population Health / Health Services Research Assistant to join our dynamic Population-Health Research Core (PHRC). This full-time role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge population health research from development to dissemination, working alongside renowned investigators, trainees, and collaborators.
As a key member of our fast-paced team, you’ll support impactful projects that shape healthcare delivery and policy. You’ll engage in everything from IRB submissions and data analysis to participant outreach and the creation of compelling reports and presentations. We’re looking for someone with strong organizational skills, excellent writing and communication abilities, and a collaborative spirit.
If you have a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience), 2–4 years of relevant experience, and a passion for improving health outcomes through research, we invite you to apply and help us advance the mission of population health at UCLA.
Hourly Salary Range: $29.17 – $56.37. Please note the department’s target hourly pay is $29.17.
Required:
· Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
· 2-4 years of relevant experience.
· Ability to work independently and also have interpersonal skills to work with teams.
· Demonstrated writing skills to produce wide range of documents and deliverables.
· Experience communicating effectively and professionally and working with a variety of internal and external partners, including UCLA administrators, outside funders, policy makers and community representatives.
· Working knowledge of evaluation, creating datasets, grant writing and proposal submission.
· Strong organizational skills to successfully work on and track complex programs involving short deadlines and multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple teams to achieve program/project mission and goals.
· Working knowledge of program/project development, evaluation, creating datasets, financial management and reporting, research principles including CITI training, grant writing and proposal submission, University procedures and policies, program/project related federal and state regulations.
· Ability to seek out and learn new policies, procedures, and software to advance the mission of the program/project.
· Ability to train new program/project managers and other staff within and external to the unit.
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