Research Assistant

Seeking to appoint a highly motivated Research Assistant to join the Victorian Infectious Diseases Services

Job no: 0056112
Location: Parkville
Role type: Casual Role (7-10 Hrs p.w. negotiable) until December 2022
Faculty: Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences
Department/School: Department of Infectious Diseases
Salary: $45.78 per hour. plus 10% super

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About the Department of Infectious Diseases

https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/school-structure/infectious-diseases

The Department of Infectious Diseases is a recently established department of the Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences that is based at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute). Research within the department encompasses infectious diseases including antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, influenza, viral hepatitis, sexually-transmitted infections, skin pathogens, and emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Our researchers come from diverse backgrounds, including discovery research and basic scientists, clinician-researchers, epidemiologists, public health physicians, and microbiologists.

About the Role

The Department of Infectious Diseases based at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (the Doherty Institute) is seeking to appoint a highly motivated Research Assistant to join the Victorian Infectious Diseases Services (VIDS) to work on a clinical registry project. The Melbourne Health COVID-19 BIoGrid PlAtform (MEDIA) project (HREC 2020.385) aims to establish a registry of potential participants with a suspected or proven diagnosis of COVID-19 infection at Melbourne Health. BioGrid Australia, a data linkage platform will be used to ethically link and integrate clinical data and to manage researcher access under appropriate ethical clearance to various data repositories.

In a typical week at work, you may:

• Collect and clean data
• Recruit potential participants
• Manage databases associated with the patient recruitment process
• Independently plan and carry out project tasks accurately and reproducibly, focused on completion of research project aims to meet agreed timelines and milestones
• Work closely with supervisors and collaborators to ensure timely and efficient progress toward project aims

About You

You will be enthusiastic, with a strong interest in infectious diseases and data management. You will be supporting the research leads to manage project tasks such as ethics amendments, governance processes, and patient recruitment. You will work closely with the research data lead on the project to establish processes for data extraction and analysis. You will have exceptional organisational skills, possess the ability to work within a team atmosphere, and be a natural self-starter.

Ideally, you will further have:

• BSc (Honours) degree or equivalent with a major in data science, computer science, information technology, or related discipline
• Ability to work with senior researchers and help manage project tasks
• Ability to collect, validate, and analyse data
• Ability to work as a member of a research team and interact in a courteous and effective manner with academic, administrative and support staff

Benefits of Working with Us

In addition to having the opportunity to grow and be challenged, and to be part of vibrant campus life, our people enjoy a range of rewarding benefits:

• Flexible working arrangements and generous personal, parental and cultural leave
• Competitive remuneration, 17% super, salary packaging and leave loading
• Free and subsidised health and wellbeing services, and access to fitness and cultural clubs
• Discounts on a wide range of products and services including Myki cards and Qantas Club
• Career development opportunities and 25% off graduate courses for staff and their immediate families

To find out more, please visit https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits.

Be Yourself

At UoM, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community, and we encourage and celebrate diversity. Indigenous Australians, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, females, people of all ages, with disabilities or culturally diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply for our roles. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.

Join Us!

If you feel this role is right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining your interest and experience. Please note that you are not required to provide responses against the selection criteria in the Position Description.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments with the recruitment process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].

Due to the impacts of COVID-19, we are currently prioritising applications with current valid working rights in Australia and candidates who are not affected by travel restrictions. Please see the latest updates to Australia's immigration and border arrangements: https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/

The University of Melbourne is required to comply with applicable health guidance and directions issued from the Victoria Health Minister. The University of Melbourne requires all University of Melbourne employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless an exemption order applies. All applicants therefore must meet this requirement when submitting an application.