Posted 2 months ago
Research Assistant (Virtual Clinical Study)
@ Sidekick
Remote in Canada
Overview
Sidekick is hiring a contract research assistant for a fully virtual clinical study of a balance-training device for ankle sprain recovery. The role serves as the main participant contact: screening and enrolling people, running video visits, and recording data. The contract runs 20 to 25 hours per week at $30 per hour, fully remote, with some evening and weekend participant scheduling.
Pay:
$30 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Screen and enroll study participants
- Run virtual study visits by video
- Guide participants through standardized functional assessments
- Monitor daily symptom diaries and follow up on missed entries
- Record data in the electronic data capture system
Requirements summary:
- Graduate degree (or in progress) in a health-related field
- Experience with human-subject research, ideally as coordinator or RA
- Current GCP certification or willingness to complete before start
- Comfortable running structured video sessions
- Available 20 to 25 hours per week, including some evenings and weekends
- Based in Canada
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · workable
- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-19
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-11
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-18
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Allied health |
| Hours per week | 22.5 |
| Schedule | day, evening |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | GCP |
| Education | Master’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | physiotherapy, kinesiology, nursing, public health, rehabilitation science |
| Perks mentioned | Visa sponsorship, Paid training |
Summary and details written by AI from the posting; the employer’s posting is the authority.
Sidekick
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 8 |
Sidekick, an injury rehab products company, is running a fully virtual clinical study of a balance-training device for people recovering from ankle sprains. About 80 participants across Canada will complete a 28-day at-home program with virtual check-ins.
You'll be the participant's main point of contact. You will screen and enroll participants, run virtual study visits by video, guide them through standardized functional assessments, monitor daily symptom diaries and follow up on missed entries, and record data in the electronic data capture system according to protocol. You'll be trained on all assessments by the study's physiotherapist investigator and work alongside a clinical trial consultant on protocol compliance.
- Graduate degree (or in progress) in a health-related field: physiotherapy, kinesiology, nursing, public health, rehabilitation science, or similar
- Experience with human-subject research, ideally in a coordinator or RA role
- Current GCP certification, or willingness to complete it before start
- Comfortable running structured video sessions with participants and keeping meticulous records
- Available 20–25 hours per week, with some flexibility for participant scheduling (evenings/weekends)
- Based in Canada
- $30/hour
- Fully remote, set your own hours within participant availability
- Hands-on clinical trial experience from enrolment through study close, on a study intended for peer-reviewed publication
- Training on standardized functional assessments from a practicing physiotherapist
- Small team with direct access to the investigator and study sponsor
To Apply:
Complete this form: https://sidekicktool.typeform.com/to/lSqjMaLg
Only applicants who have completed the form will be considered.
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