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• Job Category:
  Academic Staff
• Employment Type:
  
  Terminal (Fixed Term)
• Job Profile:
  Clin Res Coord II

• Work location:
  
  UW-CTRI Milwaukee Research Office in Milwaukee, WI
• Typical work hours:
  Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m.
  
  - 4:30 p.m. with occasional evening hours required.
• Duration:
  Terminal, 12‑month appointment (possible extension or conversion to ongoing appointment)

The UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is seeking a Clinical Research Coordinator II to join their research team. The overall responsibility of this position is to assist in conducting a research project aimed at understanding and treating tobacco and nicotine dependence among African American/Black adults who smoke, to reduce the physical, emotional, and financial consequences of tobacco use. This position will assist in the coordination of all research activities including screening and enrolling participants, conducting assessments, providing smoking cessation counseling, completing follow‑up calls, and mailing study materials.

The position will provide training to become a certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist.

• Identify resource needs and develop clinical research documents, such as job aids, tools, processes, procedures, and training. Contribute to the development of protocols.
• Perform quality checks.
• Serve as the main point of contact for clinical research participants, providing information regarding research procedures, expectations, and inquiries. Ensure participants follow the research protocol and alert Principal Investigator of issues.
• Identify work unit resource needs and manage supply and equipment inventory levels.
• Manage research workflow components, collect, prepare, process, and submit participant data and samples to appropriate entities, adhering to research protocols.
• Assist with training of staff.
• Recruit, screen, select, determine eligibility and enroll trial participants, collect more complex information, perform medical assessments, and answer varied questions under supervision of a medically licensed professional. Perform medical assessments after completion of required training/certification, such as collecting vital signs, obtaining weight, and performing phlebotomy.
• Schedule logistics, determine workflows, and secure resources for clinical research trials.
• Provide individual and group tobacco cessation counseling.

School of Medicine and Public Health, UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.

Starting salary: $50,000 annually; negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

Benefits include generous vacation, holidays, sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Refer to campus benefits webpage and the SMPH Faculty / Academic Staff Benefits Flyer 2026.

• Two or more years of personal, professional or volunteer experience serving African American/Black communities.
• Demonstrated familiarity with cultural practices, traditions, or community issues in Black communities.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technology including virtual meeting platforms (Zoom, Webex).
• At least one year of direct service experience with patients/customers.

• Knowledge of tobacco, nicotine, or related addictions.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating group discussions.

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

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