Research Assistant I

Title: Research Assistant I

Job Description:

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote 

Flexible Hybrid

Work Schedule 

Variable hybrid schedule, 20hrs/week, Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm

Salary Range: $30.12 - 35.92 Hourly

Employment Type 

2 - Staff: Career

Duration 

Indefinite

Job # 

32329

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is seeking to hire a part-time Research Assistant to support the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities Department. You will support research projected focused on poverty, social inequality, incarceration, substance use, harm reduction, and overdose/infectious disease prevention and treatment month structurally vulnerable populations. Key responsibilities include:

• Manage and organize qualitative research data, interviews, field notes, and research databases
• Support coding, analysis, transcription review, and literature searches
• Maintain archival records, research files, and audiovisual data systems
• Assist with grant reporting, manuscript preparation, editing, and formatting
• Coordinate administrative and project-related activities, including scheduling, communications, and tracking project progress
• Support collaboration across multiple research sites and partner organizations
• Provide general research and administrative support for ongoing projects

Salary range: 30.12/hr - $35.92/hr

Job Qualifications

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Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, Social Science, Behavioral Sciences, Public Health, or related field (preferred)

Minimum 1 year of experience in office management, research administration, health services delivery, or health access research (preferred)

Comfort working with structurally vulnerably and underserved populations

Ability to assist with qualitative data coding, transcription review, dictation, and database management

Understanding of medical and public health literature, as well as social science and humanities theories (preferred)

Proficiency with qualitative research and data management software, including NVivo, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Zotero, and similar research applications (preferred)

Ability to maintain accurate research records, databases, and documentation

Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint

Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from American Heart Association or American Red Cross (Preferred)

Ability to work flexible schedule

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.