WeCare Research Assistant
- Location: Employed by Southern Cross University, based in Sydney, NSW
- Casual Contract: up to 75 hours
- Rate HEW Level 4 /1: $49.93 Gross per hr
- Contract dates: commence May 1st 2025 – August 2025.
- Role/duties are expected to be completed by June/July 2025
Duties
The Research Assistant will be involved in the WeCare research project. The WeCare research project is funded through an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant.
Primary duties
To facilitate the dissemination of the WeCare App through the Indian community in Sydney. The WeCare APP is a website that hosts community-produced videos about organ donation and registration information. Fliers, videos and other recruitment materials are available.
This will involve:
- Attending ZOOM and other meetings as advised
- Maintaining an accurate recording system of how you are diffusing the WeCare APP. We will all use the same system, and it may be EXCEL.
- Taking responsibility for and ensuring your record of diffusion is submitted every fortnight on a day to be advised.
- Keeping notes on the dissemination process
- This may involve contacting people in the community, encouraging others to share the WeCare APP, and taking notes on the diffusion
- process at different time points to ascertain. For example, did community members share the We Care APP with others in the community
- Barriers and issues in dissemination
General feedback
- Problem-solving if people have difficulties with the APP
- Initiating the diffusion of the WeCare App through community groups or community events
- Initiating the diffusion of the WeCare app through appropriate social media channels such as WhatsApp, Facebook
- Keeping regular contact with the WeCare team/ Indian Advisory Panel
- Other duties as advised
Skills
- Access to networks in the Indian community, including networks involving families
- Association with and knowledge of the Indian community in Sydney
- Good interpersonal skills
- Willingness to learn about organ donation and registration
- Able to work independently without direct supervision
- If you are interested in applying for this position, please email Associate Professor Gail
Moloney. Email: gail.moloney@scu.edu.au
This project is not about pushing people to donate their organs and tissues. It is about getting people in the Indian community to think about registering an organ donation decision on the Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR). Registration rates in the Indian Community are very low and much lower than the NSW average.
We have developed a website ( WeCare APP) that has videos made by “star” members of the Indian Advisory Panel. The videos are made for the Indian community. The videos on the WeCare website give people all the information they need to think about registering an organ donation so they can make their own informed decisions. Many people don’t know that you can change your registration decision at any time; it is not a binding decision. You can also remove yourself from the register at any time.
You can register to donate all your organs and tissue, register to donate specific organs and tissue or even register a no to donation. The most important thing is to register a decision and talk to your family, so your family will be able to honour your wishes if the situation does arise.
We are looking for people who would be keen to be involved in this project and who have a network of people they would be happy to share the project through. We will provide training on how to do this and the resources, such as fliers. There will be several other Research Assistants.
