Research Assistant
Nemours
| As one of the nation’s leading pediatric health care systems, Nemours is committed to providing all children with their best chance to grow up healthy. We offer integrated, family-centered care to more than 300,000 children each year in our pediatric hospitals, specialty clinics and primary care practices in Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Nemours strives to ensure a healthier tomorrow for all children – even those who may never enter our doors – through our world-changing research, education and advocacy efforts. At Nemours, our Associates help us deliver on the promise we make to every family we have the privilege of serving: to treat their child as if they were our own. The Clinical Research Assistant I is responsible for coordinating, implementing and completing clinical research studies or clinical trials by recruiting patients, assisting in budget and documents preparation, in-servicing research teams, obtaining patient consents, educating patients, conducting study procedures, collecting data, keeping records, and performing supervised data analysis..The Speech Research Laboratory (SRL) at the Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for children has an exciting new opening for a full-time Research Assistant (RA). The RA will assist in all phases of our research projects and will also support our voice banking laboratory service that provides personalized synthetic voices for children and adults throughout the English-speaking world who use speech generating devices (SGDs). Candidates must have a bachelors or masters degree with a strong background in speech science, acoustic phonetics, or closely related area, experience with speech laboratory software and instrumentation, excellent general computer skills (ideally experience with Linux or Mac OS X terminal commands), and a strong desire to help improve the lives of children with communication disorders. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Tim Bunnell (bunnell@nemoursresearch.org) for more information. Our dedication to professionals who are dedicated to children frequently earns Nemours a spot on the list of top workplaces in the communities we serve. Our Associates enjoy comprehensive benefits, including our unique “Bridge to a Healthy Future” pediatric health plan, an integrated wellness program, opportunities for professional growth, and much more. As an equal opportunity employer, Nemours focuses on the best-qualified applicants for our openings.
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