NOTE: This is a TERM appointment (366 days). Term appointments are non-status, nonpermanent appointments of limited duration (more than 1 year but not more than 4). Term employees are eligible to earn leave and generally have the same benefits as permanent employees including health and life insurance, within-grade increases and Federal Employees Retirement System and Thrift Savings Plan coverage. Term appointments may be extended without further competition (up to the 4 year maximum). The appointment to a Term position does not confer eligibility for promotion or reassignment to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment.

Duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Prepares and submits regulatory documents for geriatric human subject research projects.
• Conducts ongoing intra- and inter-rater reliability testing of all project instruments to maintain a high level of data integrity for pre-protocol assessments.
• Develops and maintains a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) manual and adheres to this manual when administering and implementing the project protocol.
• Utilizes and maintains an electronic record management system for each project to record all applicable recruitment, procedure, and interview data.
• Provides ongoing monitoring of research projects and adheres to all applicable deadlines for submissions including adverse event reporting, annual reports and other reports required to maintain compliance.
• Completes all aspects of the screening and recruitment process as stipulated in the project protocol and ensures that all patients/subjects included in the project meet all inclusion and no exclusion criteria.
• Obtains appropriate documentation of informed consent before engaging in research-related activities with patients or family members; assures that informed consent and HIPAA forms have been properly signed and witnessed; assures that participants confidentiality and rights as a human research subject are protected.
• Compiles and produces education and training materials; determines the contents needed for training binders for each project.
• Monitors and evaluates quality of all data and uses proper approach for correcting all errors identified.
• Performs other duties assigned as it relates to the position.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/security investigation
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• May be required to serve a probationary period
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To apply for this position, you must have the following qualifications:

This position includes a Selective Placement Factor (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration.

The Selective Placement Factor for this position is:
Experience performing gait analysis using various programs such as: Gait Lab, MatLab, and Labview.

AND

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), No person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. You must be proficient in basic written and spoken English in order to meet the requirements of this position.

AND

BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Must have a Bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree: major study in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position. Note: You must provide a copy of your transcripts to receive consideration.

AND

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience that equipped you with the knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position, and that is typically related to the work of the position. Specialized experience includes working with geriatric research subjects/patients utilizing knowledge of research guidelines and applicable regulations and laws governing human subjects' research; completes the screening and recruitment process as stipulated in the project protocol and ensures that all patients/subjects included in the project meet all inclusion and no exclusion criteria.

OR

SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE: Two (2) years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree with a major study in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position. Note: You must provide a copy of your transcripts to receive consideration.

OR

COMBINATION OF BOTH EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Combinations of specialized experience and graduate education as described above that demonstrates my ability to perform the duties of the position. Note: Only graduate level education in excess of 1 year may be combined with experience. You MUST provide a copy of your transcripts with your application package.

You will be rated on the following Competencies as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Communication
• Project Management
• Research
• Team Building

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Your responses to the assessment questionnaire will be reviewed along with the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation to determine if you are qualified for the position. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating may be lowered and/or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Candidates who apply under All U.S. Citizens announcements will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The categories are defined as follows:

• Best qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;
• Highly qualified - applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the requirements of the job;
• Well qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; and
• Qualified - applicants possessing experience and/or education that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors.