Senior Clinical Research Coordinator

Overview

Job Summary Senior Clinical Research Coordinators independently coordinate and are accountable for the overall administration of one or more clinical studies, typically requiring advanced-level knowledge and skills. They may provide leadership to lower-level clinical research coordinators and/or other support personnel. The position is responsible for, and critically important to the overall operational management of clinical research activities. It has direct responsibility for implementing a diverse portfolio of research activities for one or more studies which may include multicenter clinical trials (both NIH and industry-sponsored), local investigator-initiated clinical trials, and/or programmatic clinical research activities, such as a clinical database and biorepository.

Positions at this level may perform expert and efficient integration of multiple complex programmatic activities, applying a sophisticated medical knowledge base, substantial leadership skills, effectively working with a variety of people and organizations at UCSF and elsewhere, exhibiting an in-depth knowledge of specific programs.

Reporting to Clinical Research Supervisor, the incumbent may have central responsibility for ensuring CHR approval and compliance, contract generation, negotiation and approval, subject recruitment, appropriate study testing, and adequate enrollment of multicenter clinical trials, longitudinal cohort studies, local investigator-initiated studies, and biorepository efforts; exercise strong administration and management leadership of clinical research, strong research coordination, and may lead experienced personnel to ensure optimal systems for efficiency, compliance, safety, financial oversight, and contractual expertise in negotiations and execution, as well as create and implement quality improvement processes.

This is a position of leadership whose main purpose is to ensure that clinical research commitments are met and that the programs maintain a reputation for excellence in all activities.

The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy. Your placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification  positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.

The salary range for this position is $45.12 - $72.57 (Hourly Rate).

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The Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology has established a comprehensive, multi-layered clinical research infrastructure to support and expand the Division’s research mission. This infrastructure supports industry-sponsored research, facilitates investigator-initiated studies, and advances a general cardiology cohort study, while offering clear opportunities for professional growth in clinical research operations and leadership. The Cardiology Clinical Research Unit (CCRU) supports 100-120 active clinical trials.

The CCRU research portfolio covers phase I- IV and post approval trial types and covers a diversity of trials ranging from pharmaceutical, device, preventative, and social behavioral research. Within the Division are sub-specialty sections for:
Adult Congenital Heart Disease;
Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant, and Pulmonary Hypertension;
Cardiac Electrophysiology;
Critical Care Cardiology;
Cardio-Oncology and Immunology;
Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging;
General Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology; and Prevention. The Division runs several clinical practices in multiple sites, conducts basic and clinical research, and educates medical students, residents, clinical fellows through ACGME as well as non-ACGME training programs. In addition, the Division has significant and complex financial and administrative relationships with the Department of Medicine (DOM) and the UCSF Medical Center, as well as large patient care programs in the sections noted above, large clinical, Federal, and privately supported research programs and six faculty laboratories.

The Division has 90 full-time faculty, several non-faculty academics, 36 clinical fellows, several post-doctoral research fellows, and approximately 60 research support and administrative staff. The Division currently expends over $22 million per year in pursuit of its clinical, research, training, and service missions. While the Division is primarily split between the Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses, clinical fellows have rotations at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

• BS/BA degree in a related area and sufficient experience and demonstrated skills to successfully perform the assigned…