Research Assistant
Job No.: 681227
Location: The Alfred Centre
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 12-month fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: $83,280 - $113,025 pa Level A plus 17% employer superannuation
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
The Opportunity
Join a world-class team at the Alfred Research Alliance and play a key role in improving health outcomes for people with chronic lung disease. We are seeking a passionate and organised Research Assistant to join the Respiratory Research@Alfred group, supporting NHMRC-funded studies led by Associate Professor Narelle Cox.
Working closely with clinicians, researchers, and patients, you will contribute to the design and delivery of clinical research that directly impacts real-world care. This role is ideally suited to an early career researcher or health sciences graduate with experience in clinical data collection and trial coordination.
This is a unique opportunity to grow your research experience in a high-impact, patient-focused environment, supported by a collaborative team at the cutting edge of respiratory health care.
What you’ll do:
- Collect and manage clinical trial data (quantitative and qualitative)
- Deliver trial interventions and assist with patient-facing studies
- Contribute to ethics submissions, manuscript preparation, and data analysis
- Assist in systematic reviews and grant development
What you’ll bring:
- An honours degree or higher in a biomedical, allied health, or clinical research field
- Experience working in hospital or clinical research environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP)
- Strong organisational, documentation, and data management skills
Why join us?
- Be part of a high-impact, collaborative research team
- Work from the Alfred Centre, within one of Australia’s premier medical research hubs
- Access Monash University's research infrastructure and development pathways
- Contribute to meaningful change in chronic disease care
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground-breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities.
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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to
'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Associate Professor Narelle Cox, Principal Research Fellow - Narelle.Cox@monash.edu
Position Description: Research Assistant
Applications Close: Sunday 20 July 2025, 11:55pm AEST
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