At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work. Ranked among the top 50 universities globally, we attract the highest potential students from Australia and around the world. Our researchers tackle the biggest economic, business, and social challenges with partners around the world.

This role will:

• Attend research meetings and training sessions and take minutes.

• Respond to routine enquiries relating to research.

• Liaise with stakeholders in the preparation of ethics and grant applications, abstracts, annual and progress reports.

• Undertake unsupervised research support tasks consistent with established methodologies (may include lab or field work).

• Perform data collection entry, and analysis.

• Maintain research databases, records and publication registers.

• Conduct statistical data reporting.

• Recruit study participants and conduct survey mail outs.

• Transcribe interviews.

• Organise fieldwork arrangements.

• Cooperate with all health & safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the psychosocial or physical health and safety of yourself or others.

Applicants with the following will be highly regarded:

• Demonstrated experience with systematic review processes, particularly data extraction

• Proficiency in using systematic review software (e.g., Covidence, REDCap, or similar tools)

• Experience in the field of drug and alcohol, particularly in research.

A person engaged is generally expected to have the following skills and experience:

• Completion of a tertiary degree in health, public health, psychology, social work, or related discipline.

• Prior experience supporting a research project.

• Strong level of computer literacy with strong skills in the use of Microsoft Office software and other applications or systems/databases.

Additional Pre-employment checks required for this position:

• Dependent on research topic/project scope.

If you have any questions relates to this advertisement, please reach out to Calvert Tisdale via c.tisdale@unsw.edu.au.