Job Description

• Job Type: Short Term Casual
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Temporary
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 10
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 22.50-22.50

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Position Summary

The School of Nursing is looking to hire a Columbia University student to assist (in-office) with nationwide research studies exploring infection prevention and control or hospice use in post-acute care settings. The candidate will work with a team of researchers at the Center for Health Policy at the Columbia University School of Nursing.

Responsibilities

Duties will include:

• Assisting with programming national surveys in RedCAP or Qualtrics;
• Assisting with data management;
• Assisting with data cleaning in R or Stata, specifically survey responses;
• Assisting with statistical analyses of survey responses and publicly available datasets in R or Stata;
• Conducting literature searches;
• Providing assistance with conference presentations and posters: o Formatting posters according to conference instructions;
• Inputting data into tables and generating graphs for posters and PowerPoint presentations;
• Providing assistance with manuscript publishing and grant writing:
  • Formatting according to author and grant guidelines;
  • Inputting data into tables and generating graphs;
• Attending weekly research-related meetings (via Zoom), and;
• Performing other related duties, as assigned.

This is a Temporary position (up to 1 year).

This is a grant-funded position and continued employment is contingent upon the grant.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree and current enrollment at Columbia University. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous research experience, working knowledge of Stata, and familiarity with Qualtrics or RedCAP is desired.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Ability to work well in a team.

• Proficiency/experience in biostatistics, statistical analyses, data visualization or data science.

• Working knowledge of R to perform basic commands.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.

About Columbia University

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

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