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Research Assistant, Innovations Unit (Neurology) - #Staff

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD · HybridFull-time$17.65–31.05/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$17.65–31.05/hr
Location
Baltimore, MDHybrid
Role Type
Research
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Research Assistant will support the Neurology Department’s Innovations Unit across clinical research studies. The role focuses on research data management, study coordination, documentation, and operational activities, including tracking innovation implementation and impact. The assistant will support research teams, collaborators, and external study partners, and help prepare research materials and coordinate research-related communications.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Relational DatabasesModern Programming LanguagesAnalytical SkillsAttention to DetailData Management and AnalysisFormatting and LayoutInformation GatheringOral and Written CommunicationOrganizational Skills

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Related Field

Full job description

The Department of Neurology is seeking a Research Assistant, Innovations Unit that will support the Innovations Unit with research data management, study coordination, documentation, and operational activities across clinical research studies. The position will contribute to tracking innovation implementation and impact across trials and support research teams, collaborators, and external study partners.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

  • Run routine and ad hoc reports.

  • Use standard tools and computer programs to review data.

  • Assist with data cleaning measures to ensure accuracy of data and preparation of tables.

  • Lead basic activities such as data collection and data entry.

  • May lead specific tasks and develop processes to ensure study activities occur effectively and efficiently.

  • May conduct literature searches to support faculty in research efforts.

  • May design and format papers/publications.

  • May assist PIs in writing summaries of papers for release as policy briefs or other channels.

  • Other duties as assigned.In addition to the duties above

  • Other duties as assigned.

In addition to the duties above

  • Support tracking and documentation of innovation implementation and impact across multiple clinical research trials, including maintaining study-level tracking logs and summaries.

  • Support preparation and coordination of research materials, including study documents, standard operating procedures, abstracts, manuscripts, presentations, and internal reports.

  • Serve as a liaison for research-related communications, including scheduling and coordination with internal teams, collaborators, and external study partners.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field.

  • Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge in relational databases (e.g. REDCap, Prelude) and modern programming language.

Technical Skills & Expected Level of Proficiency

  • Analytical Skills - Awareness

  • Attention to Detail - Awareness

  • Data Management and Analysis - Awareness

  • Formatting and Layout Proficiency - Awareness

  • Information Gathering - Awareness

  • Oral and Written Communications - Awareness

  • Organizational Skills - Awareness

The core technical skills listed are most essential; additional technical skills may be required based on specific division or department needs.

Classified Title: Research Assistant

Job Posting Title (Working Title): Research Assistant, Innovations Unit (Neurology)

Role/Level/Range: ACRO40/E/03/CD

Starting Salary Range: $17.65 - $31.05 HRLY (Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: M-F 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus

Department name: SOM Neuro BIOS

Personnel area: School of Medicine

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

How this job compares

Set against the 704 open Research Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$17.65–31.05/hr
  • Maryland median$17–30/hr37 hourly ranges
  • US median$18–25/hr282 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $24.35/hr, is 3% above the Maryland median midpoint ($24/hr) — in the middle half of Research Assistant hourly ranges in Maryland.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 48 open Research Assistant jobs in Maryland and 704 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Maryland
Experience
Research Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (145 postings).
Education
189 of the 704 open Research Assistant jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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