Casual Professional-research Officer

5 days ago


Sydney, Australia University of New South Wales Full time

**Job no**: 528504
**Work type**: Casual
**Location**: Sydney, NSW
**Categories**: Research Administration support, Healthcare

At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work.

Ranked among the top 50 universities globally, we attract the highest potential students from Australia and around the world. Our researchers tackle the biggest economic, business, and social challenges with partners around the world.

**This role will**:

- Conduct research support activities.
- Participate in meetings and training sessions.
- Respond to non-standard or complex enquiries relating to the research study.
- Execute data cleaning and ensure research integrity in research databases.
- Supervise other Research Assistants if required.
- Organise fieldwork logistics.
- Screen study participants for research studies including scheduling appointments, procedures and

attendance follow up.
- Draft and edit research and progress reports, publications, presentations, ethics and grant
- Undertake independent research tasks consistent with established methodologies (may include lab

or field work).
- Coordinate researchers’ attendance at events and conferences.
- Process expense reimbursements for research related expenses.
- Perform quantitative data analysis.
- Conduct routine data verification and collection audits.
- Cooperate with all health & safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the psychosocial or physical health and safety of yourself or others.

**A person engaged is generally expected to have the following skills and experience**:

- Completion of a tertiary degree with relevant experience supporting a research project.

databases for research.

**Additional Pre-employment checks required for this position**
- Dependent on research topic/project scope

Position Description

**Advertised**: 28 Oct 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 30 Nov 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time


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