Rendever is overcoming social isolation through the power of virtual reality and shared experiences. Our resident engagement platform has been installed in more than 800 senior living communities and has provided over 3,000,000 moments to thousands of residents across the world. With Rendever, residents can travel to all corners of the world, check off bucket list items and revisit meaningful places like their childhood home. If this sounds good to you, keep reading!

We are looking for a dedicated clinical researcher to join our research team and conduct studies with older adults and their caregivers as they learn and engage with the Rendever VR platform. Our platform offering is aimed at improving the lives of seniors by enhancing interpersonal connections, reinforcing autobiographical memories, and engaging them in fun social, physical, and cognitive activities. All is supported by an incredible team, and we’re excited to add this role as we begin an exciting new chapter in our research endeavors. The NIA awarded Rendever a Commercialization Readiness Program grant to continue evaluating the impact of our VR platform with older adults living at home. This three-year clinical study will be conducted remotely by Rendever and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and aims to recruit 250 older adults along with 125 family caregivers. Older adults living at home will be connected with residents from local senior living communities three times a week through shared VR experiences. This study contributes to public health by testing the expanded networking capabilities of Rendever VR on the social health, mental health, vitality, and quality of life of older adults who are aging in place with diverse cognitive abilities. Ultimately, this project aims to help build a much needed infrastructure of social connectivity to combat social isolation and improve wellbeing.

The clinical researcher is primarily responsible for collecting the data. This includes remotely screening for eligibility, obtaining informed consent, teaching older adults how to safely use VR in their home, and helping participants complete surveys. We're looking for individuals who are able to create a positive research experience while driving operational efficiency.

Beyond this study, there are two ongoing remote research studies and we foresee this role as a long-term opportunity within our company. There is also room to grow in this role with finding funding opportunities, grant writing and submissions, and study and protocol development.

If you’re passionate about working with people experiencing cognitive decline and doing impactful research to combat social isolation, enhance human connection, and increase well-being and overall health, you’ve come to the right place! You’ll be a part of collecting some incredible moments of impact each day, and we can’t wait to see the stories come in.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Train both the older adults and caregivers on using the technology prior to the beginning of the virtual intervention and throughout the study as needed. Don’t worry, we will be training you on how to do this first.
• Conduct virtual screenings, informed consent, and training sessions over Zoom with participants
• Assist the older adult participants as they fill out their Qualtrics survey at three different time points.
• Help participants feel comfortable using a variety of scaling methodologies
• Monitor participants’ adherence to the intervention and provide them with reminders and support throughout the study
• Help as needed with communications with participants and their care teams, ensuring we maintain the proactive responsiveness and support for which our brand is known

Skills Required

• Clinical research experience, experience doing research with people living with dementia would be a plus
• Communication skills: Excellent listening and verbal communication skills are required to interact with participants, their families, and members of their care team during the recruitment phase and data collection phase
• Computer skills: Being comfortable setting participants up on our platform will be important for this role. Having prior experience with VR would be a bonus but isn’t required if you are a quick learner.
• Data collection: Attention to detail is essential for maintaining high quality-data collection practices and ensuring all study procedures are completed accurately and consistently
• Time management: You’ll be managing your own time and the schedules of the participants during the study. As this is a remote study, flexibility working with participants in different time zones is crucial

You're a good fit if you have...

• A high level of attention to detail when sticking to protocols
• A passion for helping the aging community and caregivers
• A love for learning new technologies and teaching others how to use them
• A passion for working with autonomy and being thoroughly organized
• Comfort working with remote teams and a fast-paced startup culture
• Knowledge about the VR industry
• Fluency in English, it is the universal company language
• A positive & energetic personality

Team Culture & Values

• Proactivity, collaboration, and communication drive success.
• We thrive when we learn together.
• Our growth inspires positive change in the world of care.
• Results matter.

Why join the Rendever team?
Rendever’s award-winning virtual reality platform is being used in hospitals, senior living communities, and with individual seniors across America. By joining our team, you will have an opportunity to work with exciting technologies that make a real difference in people’s lives.We’re a small, tight-knit team, but we’re in a unique and exciting position where our industry support and adoption has hit significant strides. In order to accelerate this progress, we’re working with health foundations and corporate sponsors to bring the impact of our technology to senior living communities and other in-need populations all over North America.

NOTE: This is a role supported by a federal grant.