The School of Public Health is seeking applications for a part-time (30 hrs per week), benefit eligible Sleep Technician. 

The School of Public Health is committed to antiracism and anti-oppression in our mission and operations. In pursuit of this goal, we consider an applicant’s record working with individuals from historically marginalized backgrounds and experience identifying and eliminating systemic barriers to success in an academic environment. SPH seeks to increase the diversity of its workforce, and we particularly encourage applications from those who belong to groups that have been historically underrepresented in our discipline, including those who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, those with disabilities, and those from LGBTQIA+ communities.

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Certification in all areas of performance will be required. Training will be provided prior to the beginning of study operations.

The Technician for the Sleep ancillary to the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Sleep will be responsible for the following:

60% Conduct evening visits in participant homes primarily in St Paul with a few in the surrounding cities to administer consent forms if needed.  Attach sleep monitoring equipment and explain the procedures involved with use of the polysomnography, actigraphy units and 24 Blood Pressure monitors.  Administer sleep questionnaires and explain use of the sleep diary.  Collecting equipment from the previous day. 

20% Recruiting and scheduling 4 to 5 participants per week. 

20% Download and review study data and electronically transfer data to the off-site “Reading Center”.  Cleaning/Sanitizing equipment after use. Prepare participant feedback/result letters.

Each visit is anticipated to take between 30 to 90 minutes, with up to an additional 1-2 hours of transportation. (mileage will be reimbursed)

This position requires experience in garnering trust and ensuring confidentiality to establish excellent rapport with study participants, many of whom are native Spanish speaking individuals. This is a long term study concerned with retention of the originally recruited participants.

Work Arrangements: 

Core business hours are 2:00pm-8:30pm   

Starting compensation rate is dependent upon the selected candidate’s relevant qualifications and internal equity: $19.52 - $22.05 hourly; $30,451.20 - $34,398 annually at 75% time

All required qualifications must be documented on application materials.

Required Qualifications:  

• Three (3) years of education and/or work experience
• Computer skills working with Word and Excel or something similar
• Experience working with data files.
• Must have a car to go to the homes of research participants in the evening to administer questionnaires, to instruct and set up the devices. Majority of home visits will be in St Paul with some in the neighboring cities. (mileage will be reimbursed)
• Must be able to work starting in the afternoon from 2:00pm-8:30pm.

Preference will be given to applicants fluent in Spanish and English (listening, reading, writing and speaking).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fluency in Spanish and English (listening, reading, writing and speaking) 
• Experience conducting research interviews, data collection and scheduling.
• Experience performing technical procedures such as sleep monitoring, anthropometry, blood pressures and applying monitoring devices such as Glucose and Heart monitors with research subjects. 
• Experience working with people from diverse racial and economic backgrounds.
• Experience setting up and maintaining research clinic operations
• Experience recruiting and retaining participants in a research study
• Experience with electronic data capture
• Experience working as part of a team 

Certification in all areas of performance will be required. Training will be provided prior to the beginning of study operations.