Job Title: Interviewers
PVN ID: QC-2208-005050
Category: Research
Location: QUEENS COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

INTERVIEWERS - WORLD TRADE CENTER HEART PROJECT

The Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment, located at Queens College, CUNY, is an environmental and occupational health research institute.  The mission of the Center is to identify and help rectify environmental and occupational threats to human health.  Areas of current research include air pollution, immigrant and occupational health, lung cancer screening, and World Trade Center 9/11 health effects. 

 Work Type: We are seeking interviewers for follow-up to the World Trade Center Heart Study at the Commoner Center, Queens College.  Full time for English interviewer and part time for Spanish and Polish interviewers.

Location: Barry Commoner Center /Queens College and home (hybrid)

 The technicians’ interviewers (3) will work on the World Trade Center Heart Study at the Barry Commoner Center at office and at home (hybrid). S/he will assist the project coordinator with the active annual follow-up consisting of:

TECHNICIAN INTERVIEWER Responsibilities:

  1. Contact and invite all the current WTCH participants to re-consent with them by email, mail, and phone, using the Consent Form.
  2. Enter sensitive and confidential medical data, using FileMaker Pro database
  3. Administer the survey online (when an email is available), by mail, or by telephone interview (in case of no response by email or mail), checking for and making attempts at obtaining any missing information in the data collected.
  4. Assess incident cardiac and incident neurologic events in a standardized self-administered survey conducted either online, by mail or by phone for events since last contact 2018.
  5. Perform interviews by phone for all subjects with suspected CV events, including positive report of cardiac symptoms, myocardial infarction, neurological symptoms, and/or stroke.

5.1 Obtain all positive interviews, all necessary physician, hospital, or death documents as recorded.

5.2 Request the medical chart for abnormalities pertaining to the study after obtaining written informed consent (HIPPA form).

 

 

Other Duties

 

Liaise between hospitals and participants for medical records, including conducting discussions with physicians and nurses. Schedule (online and in person) visits to the World Trade Center Heart program at Mount Sinai Hospital. Generate reports on request for Principal Investigator and summarized findings. Maintain study records custody and create a filing system for highly sensitive medical information. Participate in meetings and training for databases.  Print and send the annual WTC-Heart Newsletter

 

Qualifications

 

 Minimum Qualifications

 Bachelor's degree in science, biology or related, with at least two years of relevant work experience in health research studies (observational or clinic) and a recommendation from a previous employer.

  • Interviewer #1 (Full-time) must be fluent in English; Interviewer #2 (60% time) must be fluent in English and Spanish; and Interviewer #3 (30% time) must be fluent in English and Polish, both written and verbal.

Salary:  $34,000 - $36,000 per year full-time; prorated for part-time.

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
Commoner Center
Status
Full Time
Salary
Depends on Qualifications
Closing Date
Oct 29, 2022 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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