The University of Chicago Medical Center's Department of Neurology is seeking a Lead Clinical Research Coordinator to oversee, facilitate, and coordinate the daily activities of complex clinical research studies, ensuring compliance with regulations, improving research practices, and managing junior staff and financial aspects of studies.
Requirements
- knowledge and skills developed through 7+ years of work experience in a related job discipline
- Clinical research experience coordinating multiple and variety of studies (e.g., investigator initiated; industry sponsored; multi-site trials)
- Previous experience managing staff
- Comprehend technical documents
- Condense complicated issues to simple summaries that can be understood by a variety of constituents
- Perform multiple tasks simultaneously
- Prioritize work and meet deadlines
Responsibilities
- Oversees, facilitates and coordinates the daily activities of complex clinical research studies
- Plays a critical role in the conduct of the studies to ensure compliance with federal and institutional regulations
- Contribute to the publications and research related to the trial and work with PIs on the input of new trial and grant submissions
- Directly manage a subset of clinical research staff members and provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, including support with trial start up and regulatory needs
- Oversee aspects of financial management related to applicable studies and grants
- Independently manages the collection, documentation, analysis of complex clinical studies, and reporting of clinical research data
- Conducts regulatory work in accordance with requirements for their or their team’s studies
Other
- Provides input into the strategic, administrative, and operational decisions that impact clinical research conducted across the University.
- Acts as a leader within the department/unit through improving clinical research practice; serves as a resource person or acts as a consultant within area of clinical expertise.
- Supervises junior staff.
- Accountable for high standards of clinical research practice and assists in the development of accountability in others.
- Exercise absolute discretion regarding confidential matters.
