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Budget Amendment Negotiator (Fully Remote)

UCLA Health

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Compensation
$33.09–65.77/hr
Location
Remote · US
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

UCLA Health seeks an experienced Budget Amendment Negotiator to coordinate clinical research study regulations within assigned units, departments, or divisions. The role reviews protocols and prepares, manages, and submits study and regulatory documents and applications for internal, FDA, and sponsor requirements. It also coordinates with study monitors to process and collect documents in a timely manner and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Interpersonal CommunicationRelationship BuildingTeamworkPrioritizationTask ManagementAnalytical SkillsProblem SolvingAttention to DetailOrganizationAdobeMicrosoft OfficeExcelClinical ResearchHuman Safety Protection RegulationsIRB CoordinationRegulatory Coordination

Qualifications

1+ Years Clinical Research ExperienceBachelor's Degree

Full job description

Description

We

are seeking an experienced Budget Amendment Negotiator who will be responsible

for regulatory coordination of clinical research studies within assigned units,

departments, or divisions. Perform detailed review of clinical research

protocols and utilizes that information to prepare, manage and submit all

required study/regulatory documents and all required applications and forms

related to internal UCLA requirements, FDA requirements, sponsor requirements,

etc. Work with study monitors to process, review and collect the appropriate

regulatory documents in a timely manner and in compliance with federal, state,

and university mandated laws, regulations and policies.

Salary

offers are determined based on various factors including, but not limited to,

qualifications, experience, and equity. UCLA Health hourly salary range for

this position is $33.09 - $65.77.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Minimum of 1+ years of experience as a clinical researcher

  • 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 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 accuracy in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.

  • Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks 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.

  • Working knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.

  • 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.

Preferred:

  • Bachelor's degree

UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person’s unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,473 open Clinical Research jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$33.09–65.77/hr
  • California median$36–45/hr26 hourly ranges
  • US median$26–37/hr189 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $49.43/hr, is 22% above the California median midpoint ($41/hr) — in the middle half of Clinical Research hourly ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 178 open Clinical Research jobs in California and 1,473 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Clinical Research postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 1,096 postings).
Education
559 of the 1,473 open Clinical Research jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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