job title: Research assistant 2(eversana)

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Our employees are tasked with delivering excellent business results through the efforts of their teams. These results are achieved by:

• Assist with a variety systematic and targeted literature reviews, indirect treatment comparison feasibility assessments, and landscape/gap assessments.

• Prepare research protocols, define and refine research questions as they pertain to literature review objectives including protocols for registration (eg, PROSPERO)

• Develop inclusion/exclusion criteria within the PICOS framework to be implemented during screening process

• Conduct the screening of abstracts and full-text articles (in DistillerSR and/or other tools developed by EVERSANA) against defined inclusion/exclusion criteria to assess their suitability for inclusion in the review

• Create PRISMA flow diagrams depicting study attrition

• Perform article abstraction, validate data abstraction

• Conduct study quality assessments/risk of bias assessments

• Perform quality check of various phases of the literature review

• Develop draft publications (manuscripts, abstracts, posters) and draft reports

• Lead and guide colleagues on literature review, feasibility assessments, and/or landscape assessment processes

• Support training of peers and project setup on DistillerSR

• Support development of best practices and SOPs

• Participation in client meetings (attend teleconferences, record minutes, etc.)

• All other duties as assigned

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, education, knowledge, skill and/or abilities required.

• The qualified candidate will have a BSc or comparable college degree in a medically-related field such as biology and pharmacology, biochemistry, biology or epidemiology.

• At least 1.5 years’ experience in conducting systematic/structured literature reviews with technical competency in EndNote and DistillerSR

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required, with an emphasis on being able to synthesize information from a body of literature.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and multitasking capabilities.

• Able to adapt to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.