Job Description

This Research Program Assistant II is within the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers are seeking a Research Program Assistant II to help with a qualitative project involving organization, transcription, and qualitative data coding for focus groups and key informant interviews. This project is part of the GEARs Autism Center of Excellence project based at BSPH, a network of research projects studying how the interplay of genetics and environmental factors might increase likelihood of autism, including co-occurring health conditions. One aim is to identify modifiable factors to improve lives of people living with autism. As such, we plan various focus groups and key informant interviews, such as adults on the spectrum, parents/caregivers, medical providers, risk communicators, etc.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• The work may be done remotely. We anticipate 5-10 hours a week, through July 2025.
• Hours will be highly variable and determined by agreement of supervisor and worker.
• Research Program Assistant II will be required to work outside normal office hours sometimes to accommodate participants in other time zones.
• Research Program Assistant II will also need to be available sometimes within normal office hours for team meetings and data coding sessions. These variable hours include communications that occur outside normal office hours.
• Excellent written and oral communications.
• Patience.
• Ability to pick up new skills quickly.
• Ability to work well in a team setting.

• High School Diploma or graduation equivalent.
• Two years related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
• This research project will require CITI human subjects training certification.

• Human subjects research experience.
• Experience consenting research participants.
• Knowledge of autism spectrum disorder.
• Experience working and/or interacting with people with autism, caregivers, medical providers.
• High level of experience and comfort using Zoom.
• Experience with OneDrive.

Classified Title: Research Program Assistant II 
Role/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/02/CC  
Starting Salary Range: $15.70 - $26.25 HRLY ($13,000 targeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Casual / On Call 
Schedule: As determined by project; flexible as agreed by supervisor and staffer 
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt 
Location: Remote 
Department name: Mental Health Research Projects  
Personnel area: School of Public Health 

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal ... timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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