
Research Assistant, Innovations Unit (Neurology) - #Staff
Baltimore, MD · HybridFull-time$17.65–31.05/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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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.
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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
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Run routine and ad hoc reports.
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Use standard tools and computer programs to review data.
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Assist with data cleaning measures to ensure accuracy of data and preparation of tables.
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Lead basic activities such as data collection and data entry.
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May lead specific tasks and develop processes to ensure study activities occur effectively and efficiently.
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May conduct literature searches to support faculty in research efforts.
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May design and format papers/publications.
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May assist PIs in writing summaries of papers for release as policy briefs or other channels.
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Other duties as assigned.In addition to the duties above
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Other duties as assigned.
In addition to the duties above
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Support tracking and documentation of innovation implementation and impact across multiple clinical research trials, including maintaining study-level tracking logs and summaries.
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Support preparation and coordination of research materials, including study documents, standard operating procedures, abstracts, manuscripts, presentations, and internal reports.
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Serve as a liaison for research-related communications, including scheduling and coordination with internal teams, collaborators, and external study partners.
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
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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
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Analytical Skills - Awareness
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Attention to Detail - Awareness
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Data Management and Analysis - Awareness
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Formatting and Layout Proficiency - Awareness
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Information Gathering - Awareness
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Oral and Written Communications - Awareness
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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
- Johns Hopkins University (this employer)37 open
- Kennedy Krieger Institute4 open
- University of Maryland, Baltimore3 open
- 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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