ResearchAssistant

**_Current Employees:_** If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click [here](https://www.myworkday.com/umiami/d/task/1422$7248.htmld) to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position, please review this [tip sheet](https://my.it.miami.edu/wda/erpsec/tipsheets/ER_eRecruiting_ApplyforaJob.pdf). The University of Miami/UHealth Hussman Institute has an exciting opportunity for a Full Time, Research Assistant to work in Miami. **Core Job Summary:** The Research Assistant 1 contributes to research investigators by providing research and experimentation support while following established protocols. The Research Assistant 1 performs a clerical role to ensure the smooth operations of office facilities. **Core Responsibilities:** * Sets up and operates various scientific apparatus and makes minor repairs. * Prepares correspondence and answers phones. * Formulates and maintains bibliographies and completes applications and forms. * Orders laboratory supplies and maintains culture media reagents. * Reviews and edits various materials for publication and prepares publication schedules. * Maintains appropriate logs, records, and study notebooks. * Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets. ​ **Department Specific Functions:** * Communicate professionally, verbally and in writing, with team members and colleagues * Exhibit the ability to take direction from peers, follow detailed and specific instructions, take applicable notes, ask pertinent questions and think critically * Demonstrate the ability to follow standard operating procedures * Operate standard lab equipment including, but not limited to, single and multi-channel pipettes, centrifuges, heat blocks, thermocyclers, etc. * Perform quantitation and qualitation of DNA/RNA samples by nanodrop, Qubit fluorometer, Agilent BioAnalyzer/Tapestation and gel el