The Department of Psychiatry at The University of Iowa Health Care is seeking a Research Associate to serve as a Project Evaluator and member of the UI Addiction and Recovery Collaborative (UI ARC) team. This position supports funded projects involving substance use and addiction through the development and implementation of comprehensive evaluation plans. The Project Evaluator will conduct project management activities to ensure program operations, activities, and services align with the research and service grant goals and objectives. Evaluation responsibilities include accessing various reports, conducting analyses, and formatting data for inclusion in weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities
- Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to collect evaluation data for of grant-funded programs and analyze program data using quantitative methods.
- Seek, synthesize, and organize information to summarize and communicate in a clear and concise manner.
- Understand the context of a program and how it affects planning, implementation, outcomes, and evaluation.
- Will collect and enter data and conduct audits as necessary.
- Generate queries, reports, exports, and other data as needed.
- Provide quantitative, graphical, and qualitative analysis.
- Provide statistical support and interpret findings.
- Assist in the preparation of materials as requested for reporting to funding sources.
- Submit timely and accurate reports for existing grant-funded projects.
- Work within databases such as Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap).
- Ensure the protection of confidential data including and not limited to the privacy of the health care information.
- Meet deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information-gathering, writing, review, and approval to ensure timely transmittal/submission of proposals.
- Work in a team environment and maintain effective working relationships with faculty, staff, learners, and various project stakeholders.
- Collaborate through effective communication by providing regular updates and information to colleagues allowing the entire team to perform well.
