Welcome to the Gillings School’s Job Postings page. If you would like to post a job, please use our Internal Jobsite Posting Request Form. The purpose of this page is to advertise short-term opportunities for students in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. Work-Study positions should be advertised on the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid’s JobX website. Permanent, full-time positions, including positions for recent graduates, should be advertised in Handshake.
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Recently, the Information Security Office has been alerted to an uptick in attempts to gather personal information from students via fake job offers purporting to be from research employment opportunities.
Here are some tips to help you sort out whether a job offer solicited via email is legitimate or not (here’s a clue: they’re usually not).
- The employer contacted you and you never contacted them.
- The pay offered is above average for the position.
- Online interviews are conducted via instant messaging services.
- You are asked to provide confidential information either via email or the creation of an account online.
- Payment is required to participate in the hiring process.
- There is a sense of urgency or a time requirement for immediate action on your part.
- It just feels “off.”
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Job Postings
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| Title | Location | Start | End | Hours/Week | Salary/Stipend | Application Deadline | How to Apply | Roles/Responsibilities | Qualifications/Education Requirements |
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| Patient Care Assistant | CareYaya Foundation | Flexible | Flexible | Flexible work hours; set your own schedule (on-demand like Uber or DoorDash) | Pay of $15-25/hour | ASAP | Students can apply here. | Read more/less. CareYaya is backed by leading organizations like the AARP, RRF Foundation for Aging, Atrium Health, and other large healthcare systems around the country. Importantly, CareYaya charges no fees to families – it’s completely free to use. Here are some features of ours in the news. We’re growing rapidly and are looking for students to join as a Patient Care Assistant. Benefits include: - Get direct patient care hours - No prior certifications required - Meaningful work experience and 1x1 care helping elders in the community and advancing health equity - Experiences that make great essays for grad school applications - Collaborate closely with top healthcare systems (Atrium Advocate Health, Duke Health, Mass General, Emory Health) - Top caregivers get letters of recommendation from physicians for Med/PA/Nursing/other graduate schools | Read more/less. No certifications required |
| Research Assistant | UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center – Behavioral Assessment Core (located in the UNC Gillings School of Public Health) | Immediate hire (June 2024) | Spring 2025 | Candidate will need to have availability this summer M-F 10a-5p and some Sundays. Read more/less. Total hours per week will vary since participant recruitment is variable – there is NO guarantee of hours every week. | Salary is $20/hour. | We will be interviewing/hiring on a rolling basis so please apply as soon as possible for consideration | Please email your resume and contact information to Dina Lajoie at dplajoie@email.unc.edu | Read more/less. The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center – Behavioral Assessment Core (located in the UNC Gillings School of Public Health) is seeking a part-time Research Assistant for immediate hire (June 2024) thru Spring 2025. Must be available in the summer (locally). Position will be phone interviewing research participants about their diet and entering information into a nutritional database. Position will be eventually be remote (must have good internet access) after in-person (on UNC campus) training. | Read more/less. Knowledge of basic cooking techniques, background in nutrition, computer use, and some phone and research experience preferred. Must have good internet access Spanish Speaking is preferred, but not required! |
| Research Data Collection Research Assistant | Carrboro | ASAP | TBD | 10-15 hours per week | TBD | ASAP | Please contact Kristen Jarman with your resume if you are interested: jkristen@email.unc.edu. | Read more/less. Dr. Adam Goldstein and team are hiring student research assistants for the fall to assist with research data collection about little cigar and cigarillo warnings (10-15 hours per week). Research assistants will schedule research participants and conduct study appointments for an eye tracking study based in downtown Carrboro. | Great candidates will be students Read more/less. with interest in public health, communication, or psychology that are senior undergraduates or graduate students and have availability to conduct study appointments on at least 1 week day per week. |
| Public Health Graduate Research Assistant, Maternal Health WIC | Hybrid (Chapel Hill + remote) | 9/15/24 | 5/21/25 | 10 hours | $28.94 hourly (master’s student) /$36.14 hourly (doctoral students) | 9/15/24 | Please submit a brief statement of interest (1-2 paragraphs that discuss your previous experience with the preferred skills) and current resume or CV to Dr. Larelle Bookhart: larelle.bookhart@unc.edu. | The WIC Maternal Health Implementation Center Read more/less. is a consortium comprised of researchers, practitioners, and public health experts from UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Illinois Chicago, the National WIC Association, Reaching our Sisters Everywhere, and Urban Metrics Consultants. Through a cooperative agreement with USDA, the WIC Maternal Health Implementation Center (WMHIC) will initiate and administer a competitive subgrant program for WIC State and Local agencies to implement evidence-informed models that help staff and recipients to recognize and address early warning signs of maternal morbidity and mortality. The Center will first lead an analysis of evidence-based interventions which will inform the development of a menu of options that will be shared broadly with local and state WIC agencies for addressing maternal early warning signs. Under the leadership of by Dr. Larelle Bookhart (UNC Chapel Hill), a doctoral level public health student research assistant will provide key support to project deliverables. The research assistant will be responsible for the coordination of administrative tasks, including management of the project timeline. The research assistant will complete tasks for the scoping review in year 1 including systematic searches of electronic databases and websites, article screening and review, synthesizing information, reporting findings, coordinating and conducting focus groups, analyzing data from the focus groups, and drafting manuscripts. | Read more/less. • Experience conducting systematic reviews including literature reviews and systematic searches of electronic databases and websites. • Experience writing comprehensive reports that include the synthesis of data, interviews, and complex information • Experience conducting focus groups and analyzing qualitative data from focus groups • A graduate level degree in public health • Demonstrated knowledge and application of maternal health and nutrition research and interventions • Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication • Attention to detail • Organization skills • Strong collaboration skills • Commitment to equity |
| Graduate Student Research Assistant | UNC-Chapel Hill | 10/1/24 | 5/15/24 | 7 to 10 | $25/hour | 9/23/24 | Interested applicants should email a resume/CV and 3 references to Dr. Dave Friedlander at dave_friedlander@med.unc. | The Research Assistant will support Dr. Friedlander’s recently awarded career development award . Read more/less. Dr. Friedlander’s award is focused on using mixed methods to evaluate US alternative payment models to reduce disparities in renal colic care. Specifically, analysis of primary health outcomes data and large secondary healthcare databases. This position is needed to design and carryout advanced data analytic techniques (including machine-learning augmented predictive modeling- e.g. random forest approaches) through statistical software packages such as SAS/STATA/R/PYTHON. | The candidate should have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer or data science, statistics, or related area. Read more/less. Ideal candidates for this position should have a strong statistical/biostatistical background. Experience with predictive modeling is preferred although not necessary as long as the applicant is willing to learn these skills through partnership with programmers at the Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Familiarity with/ability to work with virtual research desktops is also necessary. |
| Graduate Research Assistant | Chapel Hill | 10/1/24 | 5/15/2024 with an option to extend for an additional year | ~10 | $25/hour | 9/23/24 | Interested applicants are invited to email their resume/CV and 3 references to Dr. Kate Chan, MD, MPH at Katherine_chan@med.unc.edu. | We are looking for a UNC graduate student to join our research team in the Department of Urology. Read more/less. The research team is seeking to establish the acceptability and feasibility of a small group professional coaching intervention to reduce burnout among a diverse group of UNC physicians. Under the direction of Dr. Katherine Chan, the GRA will assist with conducting and analyzing semi-structured interviews and assist with manuscript preparation. The GRA will also assist with study start-up activities including study protocol development, submitting IRB amendments, recruiting, and coordinating group coach training. | Candidates should have a minimum of a bachelor's degree in public health, social sciences, or related area. Read more/less. Successful candidates will be graduate students in public health who have experience with qualitative research. |
| NC TraCS Institute Informatics Internship | Remote | Anticipated Start Date – September 30, 2024 | Anticipated End Date – May 10, 2025 | Time Commitment – 20 hours/week | Pay Rate – $22/hour If desired and permitted by the home department, we are open to the candidate using this position as a program-required internship. | The application deadline is September 20, 2024 | Please send the following items to Josh Fuchs (josh_fuchs@med.unc.edu) with the subject line: Read more/less. “TraCS Intern Fall 2024– Application [your name]”: · Resume or CV · Cover letter describing how your qualifications make you a fit for this position · Optional but recommended: Scientific or technical writing sample · Optional but recommended: Link to GitHub page or similar demonstrating programming experience | The TDSL Fall intern will support the build-out of infrastructure for the de-identified OMOP Research Data Repository (ORDR(D)). Read more/less. ORDR(D) is a joint effort between TraCS and RENCI focused on building new health research-focused data warehousing as a secure enclave at UNC. The intern will develop, implement, and document one or more computational phenotypes in the ORDR(D) environment that can be used by the research community. This work will involve the identification of current literature on existing phenotypes, evaluation and assessment of the phenotype, translation of the phenotype into the OMOP Common Data Model, implementation of the phenotype with R and/or Python, and documentation of the phenotype characteristics. | Qualifications: Read more/less. 1. Enrollment in a graduate program at UNC – Chapel Hill for S2024. This should be reflected in the submitted CV/resume. 2. Required skills include: · Excellent written and oral interpersonal communication skills · Ability to work independently, while also collaborating with a team, in order to achieve project goals · Strong attention to detail · Strong ability to think quantitatively and critically · Experience programming in Python, R, or SQL · Excellent technical writing skills geared towards medical researchers · Ability to explore and evaluate scientific literature 3. Preferred skills include: · Understanding of regulatory and privacy rules for working with protected health information · Experience using healthcare data · Enrollment in graduate program in Computer Science, Library Science, Health Informatics, Public Health, or a related field. · Experience working with and/or creating open-source code |
| Part-Time Communications Specialist | Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design & Worker Well-Being | Position to begin in September 2024. | Possibility of a research assistant position with stipend and tuition in the spring semester. | Part-time at 10 hours/week (flexible depending on applicant’s availability and negotiated at time of hire). | Hourly rate for this position is $25-$30/hr, negotiated based on experience. Possibility of a research assistant position with stipend and tuition in the spring semester. | 9/27/24 | Please send cover note explaining your interest in the position and your updated CV to Gena Gerstner, Outreach Coordinator at HealthyWork@unc.edu | The Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design & Worker Well-Being (https://healthywork.unc.edu) is recruiting a student to serve as a part-time communications specialist who will help further our Center’s communications portfolio. Read more/less. The Carolina Center is one of 10 Centers for Excellence for Total Worker Health® (https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/extramural-programs/php/about/twh_centers.html) funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to promote worker wellbeing. This is an exciting opportunity to work with faculty, staff, and students at UNC Chapel Hill (from Public Health, Nursing, Exercise and Sports Science, Medicine), UNC Greensboro, and Research Triangle International (RTI), as well as key stakeholders from the state and nation. Job functions • Website maintenance and expansion: Plan, produce, and edit content for the Carolina Center website (https://healthywork.unc.edu). In 2024-2025 we specifically seek to expand the resource database offered through the website. • Newsletter: Develop feature stories for our newsletter to promote the work of Center researchers/partners and to disseminate resources. • Social media: Help amplify other Center communications through social media content on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. • Press: Assist research project teams with developing press releases for various Center activities; and, work collaboratively with NIOSH, Gillings and UNC News offices for major announcements. • Multi-media: Create videos and photographs in support of Center communications and educational materials. • Design of digital resources: Using existing branded templates, finalize the design of resources that Center investigators develop. Includes: Center presentations, scientific posters, fact sheets, reports, and other branded digital resources. | Minimum qualifications for the position include: Read more/less. advanced undergraduate training in communications, journalism or related field. Experience working as a communications specialist (or related position) for a research project or other organization desired. An individual who works quickly with attention to detail is essential. We are looking for someone who is interested in working with a fun, productive team who are mission-driven to improve worker and workplace health and well-being. |
| Hourly Research Assistant for the National MCH Workforce Development Center | Chapel Hill, NC | September of 2024 | 5/13/25 | 10 | $29/hour | 9/20/24 | Applicants: email CV and 1-paragraph statement of interest to Chantelle Dowsett, Center Evaluation Manager, National MCH Workforce Development (chantelle_dowsett@unc.edu). Preference will be given to Department of Maternal and Child Health degree program students. | Read more/less. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) seeks a part-time hourly (10-hours/week, $29/hour) graduate student Research Assistant (RA) for the evaluation team of its National MCH Workforce Development Center. The position begins on September 2024 and ends on May 13, 2025. The RA will perform a variety of evaluation tasks related to project implementation reporting, using project management tools, thematic analysis of qualitative data, writing clear and concise summaries of evaluation findings, and assisting with the development of written reports. The National MCH Workforce Development Center (the Center) provides workforce development for State MCH program leaders to implement health transformation. The Center serves as a coordinating site, engaging with academic, policy and public health practice partners to provide workforce training. Funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Center is housed in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Job Description: Working in collaboration with the project’s Evaluation Manager, this position will assist with evaluation efforts for the MCH Faculty Development Fellowship Program at Diverse Institutions (MCH FDFP @ DI; hereafter Fellowship Program). The Fellowship Program is designed to diversify and build capacity of MCH public health across the country by increasing knowledge, skills, and capacities in MCH education, student engagement, research, and practice to build and sustain academic-practice partnerships and address MCH inequities in communities that are historically underserved. In this role, the RA will: 1) update progress monitoring tools to assist with continuous quality improvement feedback loops; 2) use available information (including, but not limited to: survey data, interview transcripts, meeting notes, webinar transcripts and/or recordings) to assess, document and share Fellowship Program results. The RA will meet weekly (either in-person or remotely) with WDC Evaluation Team to check-in on progress, share and discuss findings, address challenges, etc. | Pursuing Masters in MCH or related Public Health discipline. Read more/less. Working knowledge of principles and approaches of program monitoring and evaluation, including theories of change and logic models; Understanding of root causes of disparities in MCH and implications for program evaluation; Demonstrated experience coding and analyzing qualitative data; Familiarity with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel; Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and occasional increased workload volume; Demonstrated ability to interact effectively and respectfully with people from different disciplines, backgrounds, and cultures; and Ability to apply an equity lens in all work. |
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