Director, Research Compliance

Reporting to the Director of Research and Innovation Strategies and Chief of Staff of ORS, the Director for Research Compliance manages DePaul’s Research Protections Program. The Research Protections Program at DePaul was established to ensure the University’s compliance with regulations governing research and other qualifying activities that involve human participants, animals, and/or biohazardous materials. The Research Protections Program consists of three university-wide committees - Institutional Review Board (IRB), Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC), and Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) made up of faculty members, staff, outside experts, and community representatives, and these committees are administered by the Director for Research Compliance and the Office of Research Services.

Managing the IRB, IACUC, and IBC review committees and programs:

• Serving as a permanent voting member and regulatory expert on the IRB and serving as an ex-officio advisor to the IACUC and IBC.
• Preparing agendas and meeting minutes and creating correspondence to investigators to relay the committees’ determinations.
• Receive and process any non-compliance reports or subject complaints related to human subject research at DePaul, and non-compliance reports related to the IACUC and IBC.
• Serving as the primary liaison between DePaul’s Research Protections committees and federal regulators, external funding agencies, collaborating institutions, internal and external researchers, other areas of the Office of Research Services, the HIPAA Privacy Officer, Environmental Health and Safety, the Office of General Counsel, and other offices within DePaul, as needed.
• Maintaining regulatory assurances and registrations with federal agencies by updating the agreements, when necessary, and filing mandated reports with federal agencies, and when necessary internally.
• Ensuring that semi-annual facility inspections and programmatic review for the animal care and use program are conducted and documented per federal regulations.
• Developing and presenting educational and training sessions about the ethical conduct of human, biosafety, and animal subject research and the IRB/IACUC/IBC process.
• Provide guidance for staff, researchers, and other university departments related to complex research protocols.
• Develop, implement and manage efficient procedures to facilitate institutional policies and procedures, based upon federal regulations and guidelines for the IRB, IACUC, and IBC.
• Creating and maintaining submission forms for the IRB, IACUC, and IBC.
• Conducting IRB review of protocols at the exempt, expedited, and full review level.
• Ensuring IRB, IACUC, and IBC administrative and protocol files are maintained and retained according to federal requirements.
• Providing guidance to faculty, staff, and students regarding the federal and institutional requirements for research with human subjects, research and teaching activities with animals, and research and teaching activities with biohazardous agents.
• Create the content for and maintain the Research Protections section of the Office of Research Services website.
• Create Oversee Administrative staff in Research Compliance Office.
• Develop and oversee the IACUC's Occupational Health and Safety Program in compliance with OSHA and OLAW.

• Work with the Research Support Facility (RSF) Director in keeping the animal facility in compliance with Federal regulations and local policy, as well as aiding in upkeep and needs of the RSF.
• Supervise the Assistant Director of Research Compliance and the Research Protections Coordinator I.

• Master’s degree or other advanced degree. Biological background is helpful and experience in animal research procedures is required. The ideal candidate would have degrees and/or experiences at the intersection between science, health, and information technology.
• Five years of experience in research compliance working with IRB, IACUC and/or IBC, preferably in an academic setting.
• Knowledge of and the ability to interpret and apply federal regulations and guidance pertaining to human subject research, animal research, and biohazardous…