Research Assistant

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UBC Vancouver Campus - Vancouver, BC, Canada time type:
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Posted Todayjob requisition :
JR23682

Staff - Non Union### ##
** Job Category
** Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants## Job Profile Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 1### ##
** Job Title
** Research Assistant### ##
** Department
* * Cresswell Laboratory Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre Division of Neurology| Department of Medicine | Faculty of Medicine### ##
** Compensation Range**$4,109.47 - $4,507.06 CAD Monthly### ##
** Posting End Date
** March 9, 2026
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* Note:

** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
** Job End Date
** December 31, 2026

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
** Job Summary
** The Appel-Cresswell Lab within the UBC Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre (PPRC), Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH), is seeking a full-time (1.0 FTE) Research Assistant (RA) to be involved with movement disorder research projects.

The incumbent will be responsible for recruiting research participants for a study involving people living with Parkinson’s and diet interventions, scheduling study visits, preparing data collection documents, assisting with data collection, and general research administrative duties. Primary study recruitment duties include pre-screening eligible patients from the electronic medical records (EMR), checking for permission-to-contact, screening potential participants by telephone, maintaining a contact tracking log, answering general email & telephone queries about the studies, scheduling study visits, and forwarding appropriate participants to assigned study leads for further review.

In addition, the RA will provide secondary duties including but not limited to: administrative assistance and data entry (REDCap, Excel) in other Appel-Cresswell studies as needed.

The Research Assistant will work onsite at the PPRC, UBC, Vancouver, BC.

** Organizational Status
** The Research Assistant will report to the Principal Investigator (PI) and Research Manager. The RA will interact with graduate students, Fellows, administrative staff, or other hospital staff. This position requires frequent communication with patients and study participants, and will be the primary contact for general queries from the community about the lab’s studies; the RA will also regularly inform the PPRC staff and collaborators about the studies to maintain active recruitment.

Secondary duties may include but not limited to booking study visits, assisting with data entry, and consenting participants. Once trained, the RA will work independently with primary direction as needed from the Research Manager. The RA will meet with the team on a weekly basis; decision-making will be done in consultation with the PI and Research Manager.

** Work Performed
*** Reviews electronic medical record (EMR) charts for recruitment of appropriate research participants, in a respectful and confidential manner.
* Recruits and screens potential movement disorders patients by telephone according to general study criteria, and forwards appropriate persons to the study leads for further detailed screening.
* Addresses any general study queries from the community or from other research personnel.
* Maintains a communication tracking log of contacted participants.
* Regularly checks Lab email and recruitment sources (REACH BC, contact from study posters, etc.) to ensure confidential and timely telephone or email contact with interested participants.
* Maintains contact with collaborators (onsite clinicians, related clinics, research fellows, etc.) to actively recruit participants.
* Assists with overall facilitation (sending out consent forms for review, data entry, study preparation, booking study visits, etc.) of…