Assistant Director - Clinical Operations

Overview

• Department: Lineberger Compr Cancer Center-426801
• Career Area : Research Professionals
• Posting Open Date: 03/27/2025
• Final date to receive applications: 02/23/2026
• Open Until Filled: No
• Position Type: Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)
• Working Title: Assistant Director - Clinical Operations
• Appointment Type: EHRA Non-Faculty
• Position Number:
• Vacancy : NF0009053
• Full Time/Part Time: Full-Time Permanent
• FTE: 1
• Hours per week: 40
• Position Location: North Carolina, US
• Hiring Range: Salary commensurate with qualifications
• Proposed
  
  Start Date:
  
  04/21/2025

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The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, founded in 1975, is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer center. The Center’s mission is to reduce cancer occurrence and death in North Carolina and the nation through research, treatment, training, and outreach. UNC Lineberger’s Clinical Research is a centralized resource that supports the clinical research efforts of Lineberger investigators, primarily through the design and conduct of therapeutic clinical trials.

Clinical Research provides administrative, regulatory, data management, and study coordination services to investigators throughout the development, approval, and implementation processes of protocols conducted at UNC and its affiliate institutions. Clinical Operations is responsible for protecting the safety of patients participating in research, ensuring the quality of the research, and safeguarding the interests of the University. It also furnishes protocol-related information to health professionals and to the community at large.

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) oversees and coordinates oncology clinical trial research for UNC School of Medicine and UNC Cancer Care. UNC Lineberger Clinical Research (CR) is responsible for organizing, managing, conducting, and supporting oncology clinical trials. The Assistant Director of Clinical Operations serves as a key member of Clinical Research non-faculty leadership overseeing the clinical operations of oncology research studies.

Responsible for LCCC Clinical Research strategic planning deliverables related to clinical trial accruals leading to process improvement initiatives to increase clinical research accrual such as efforts focused on optimization of the use of clinical staff bandwidth, screening efforts, recruitment efforts, publicization of available clinical trials and diverse patient recruitment efforts.
This position leads collaborations with key teams including other functional groups (e.g., Regulatory, Sponsor Operations), translational core facilities, and UNC correlative laboratories. This position leads training of LCCC investigators and staff on clinical operations for clinical trials and develops and maintains standard operating procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and templates for clinical trials.
This position provides training and on-going mentorship to help the leaders and staff within the unit reach their full potential. It is responsible for recruiting appropriate individuals for the right roles, recognizing the need for talents and…