Sr. Study Coordinator

Description

Join the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator and help advance innovative clinical research that improves patient care. In this role, you will lead the day-to-day operations of a diverse portfolio of studies, from startup through closeout, including NIH-funded, industry-sponsored, and investigator-initiated trials. Working closely with investigators, research teams, sponsors, and institutional partners, you will coordinate study activities, manage timelines and resources, monitor progress, and ensure regulatory compliance. We are looking for an experienced research professional who is organized, collaborative, and proactive in solving challenges. Strong project management skills are essential, and experience with quantitative and qualitative research methods is preferred. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working alongside a dedicated and supportive research team.

Annual Salary Range: $82,705.68 - $133,068.24

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in a clinical research setting

• Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators and administration and to work as a member of a team.

• Ability to effectively communicate to and interact with patients in a compassionate and kind manner.

• Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University policies and federal and state regulations.

• Analytical skills to assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.

• Close attention to detail to ensure a high degree of accuracy in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.

• Strong organizational and project management skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various ongoing tasks simultaneously to ensure deadlines are met.

• Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.

• A learning and professional growth mentality so that new software tools, systems, and processes can be adopted quickly and efficiently.

• Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively establish rapport, building collaborative relationships, and communicate complex concepts and ideas in an easy-to-understand manner.

• Ability to adapt to changing job demands, priorities, competing deadlines, remain flexible including working flexible hours to accommodate research deadlines, and flexible in handling work delegated by more than one individual.

• Ability to handle confidential information with judgement and discretion.

• High degree of concentration and focus in a work environment that contains distracting stimuli, competing deadlines, and work delegated by more than one individual.

• Strong knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.

• Strong knowledge of clinical research regulatory framework, institutional policies and procedures, Good Clinical Practice (GCP) for clinical research, and human safety protection regulations and laws.

• Ability to think creatively to develop solutions affecting the full team.

• Sufficient experience and knowledge of clinical trials budgeting processes to manage the preparation of clinical trials budgets

• Demonstrated ability to communicate medical, policy and administrative information in English.

• Experience with both quantitative and qualitative research methodology

Preferred:

• Advanced Degree

• Clinical Research Certification (CCRP)

• Project Management Certification.

• Experience with both quantitative and qualitative research methodology.

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