r/ResearchAdmin

I've been trying to figure out how to find legitimate remote work for so long, and I'm at the point where I'm genuinely exhausted and crying out of frustration and desperation.

Somewhere within clinical research, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), healthcare coordination, and health information.

The problem is that so many remote jobs seem to be restricted to people in the US or UK or any other countries. I'm based in Qatar, and I don't know which companies or websites are actually worth trusting anymore. I can't find jobs within the country because it's very slow in progress due to conflicts in GCC.

Can anyone recommend legitimate companies or official career pages that hire internationally? If you've personally found remote work in healthcare or research, I'd really appreciate hearing how you did it.

I'm just looking for some genuine guidance because I feel so stuck right now. Even one useful recommendation would mean a lot. Thank you.

I thought that this was already a given, on federal grants, that institutions have to verify that senior/key personnel have completed research security training before their proposals can be submitted, but I'm getting conflicting opinions from leadership. Can folks here please tell me what you guys do to make sure that research security training has been completed before submitting the proposal? Do you make them attach their certificate of completion? Or do you let them self-certify that they've done it, without checking? I would really appreciate any and all responses. Thanks so much.

Are your RA staff where you work part of a union? Pre-award, post-award, something else?

We're doing a card count currently for a broad category of staff that would include most of the roles related to research administration. I was curious what this looks like elsewhere, if anyone has examples or experiences.