Research Program Coordinator Job Description
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Research Program Coordinator Job Description
- Provide overarching administrative support to Program, including correspondence and scheduling seminars, general support to trainees, students, and postdocs
- Manage conflict-free calendars of meetings and appointments
- Draft and prepare for signature office communications proofread and edit confidential and sensitive information
- With Research Nurse, verifies patient eligibility for studies by comparing patient history and clinical laboratory results with protocol requirements
- Meets regularly with Principal Investigators, Research Nurse, and Research Program Manager and other study team members to review data accuracy and overall study progress
- Write manual of procedures for conducting interviews with leadership and consumers
- Interacts with study site to obtain space and negotiate schedules for participant recruitment and data collection
- Performs all data collection measures (phlebotomy not required) including questionnaires, cognitive testing, and physical measures such as six-minute walk, blood pressure, waist circumference and expiratory carbon monoxide testing and supervises data collector in these measures
- Recruit, screen and enroll eligible subjects for participation in research protocols with final authorization from principal investigator and/or research nurse team leader
- Meet regularly with principal investigators, research manager and protocol team leaders to review patient participation, data accuracy and overall project progress
- Verifies patient eligibility for studies by comparing patient history and clinical laboratory results with protocol requirements
- Prepares reports on individual patients or the study as required by the principal investigators and/or external agencies
- May assist the principal investigator and/or program manager in defining information and plans required to accomplish goals of studies
- Maintains a research chart for each patient
- Meets regularly with Principal Investigator, Research Nurse, and Research Program Manager to review data accuracy and overall study progress
- Completes minimum requirement for continuing educational units
Research Program Coordinator Job Description
- Works with the study team on approved concepts to help write the clinical research protocol and informed consent document using the TBCRC standardized templates
- Assists in the preparation of budgets for new TBCRC studies using costs principles provided by TBCRC participating member sites
- Assists in the collection, reviews for adherence to regulation, and tracks all regulatory documentation for sites involved in studies
- Understand and adhere to schedules, protocols, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
- Schedule study visits and track follow up, sample collection and data entry for multiple research studies
- Enrollment and withdrawal of participants in the BLSA
- Autopsy study
- Scheduling, preparing, and presenting case conferences for participants in the BLSA for diagnostic purposes
- Coordinating the safe transfer of biospecimens to storage freezers located on site
- Maintaining an inventory, , the monitoring and overseeing maintenance schedules of these freezers to ensure samples will remain viable for any future analyses
- Prepare, process and document claims and invoices for clinical services related to research studies
- Prepare and maintain general ledger-related documentation including allowances, adjustments, check payments and journal vouchers (JVs)
- Reconcile charges captured in the Epic billing system with the study’s Billing Grid and other study documents, to ensure appropriate billing to the research study, Medicare, third-party payer, or the study subject
- Participate in development, testing and evaluation of manuals, questionnaires, and coding structures, for the efficient collection of data
- Participate in presenting projects/data at medical meetings • Participate in working on protocol development of sub-studies • Conduct training sessions and oversee day-to-day activities of lower level program coordinators and other staff working at other locations within multi-centered clinical trial and locally
- Utilizing working knowledge of study(s) will participate in meetings to provide operational updates, report on any operational issues, and may make recommendations for resolutions to new/outstanding operational issues
Research Program Coordinator Job Description
- Participates in all mandatory meetings to develop increasing knowledge of assigned research and clinical trials • Attends educational lectures and conferences
- Draft, negotiate, and evaluate licensing and support service arrangements for the PRC International Program (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands, British Columbia, Ontario, Norway, Bulgaria and Australia) with coordination from University’s legal counsel and University Physicians, inc
- Negotiate trademark rights and responsibilities with foreign governments and create new trademark registrations for branding with the Technology Transfer Office, manage accepted trademarks and their uses
- Alert investigators when amendments to COMIRB protocols are needed, and implement and submit routine amendments
- Provide administrative compliance coordination of research projects that are conducted jointly with the NFP NSO and other research institutions
- Facilitate regular communications and site visits with international partners
- Participate in International system developments that support quality improvement and sustainability for all NFP/FNP international partners
- Work with collaborators on IRB issues and external IRBs, as needed, to meet regulatory requirements and ensure necessary approvals are processed and obtained
- Prepares and submits progress reports
- Drafts memoranda, reports, PowerPoint presentations
- Maintains central repository of project documents, project plans, deliverables
- Facilitates communication and collaboration with affiliated research personnel at other locations and institutions
- Participates and contributes to internal team meetings and facilitates new and existing partnerships with external partners
- Supports leadership staff by coordinating events established in the central portion of the grant, such as an HBX Live (online discussion platform)
- Helps fulfill key project and reporting documents
- Outstanding interpersonal, organizational, and networking skills
Research Program Coordinator Job Description
- Records and distributes team research meeting agenda, notes and taskings
- Maintain lab and medical records, and database records
- Assist in the management of the center’s daily operations
- Assist with research activities in BRIDGES projects, including data collection, entry, and analysis and manuscript writing
- Assist the Principal Investigator in developing and implementing study operating procedures related to recruitment, retention, study visits and specimen bank while ensuring that quality control procedures are adhered to
- Assist with the informed consent process, • Records management, communicating with team members on the status of assignments, • Assist with editing and preparation of study documents, • Organization of records, • Schedule study-related visits, • Collect data via telephone and/or face-to-face questionnaires with study participants, and • Clerical duties as assigned
- Development of recruitment materials, SOPs/procedures
- Provide GPP Academic Director with research support for projects related to international relations and U.S. foreign policy, including web searches, book and article summaries, editorial assistance, and literature searches
- Coordinate student research assistants on projects related to global policy issues
- Manage and plan travel occasionally participate in overseas research trips with students and faculty
- The ability to perform highly detailed work with superb attention and care while providing/ obtaining information on numerous inquiries is paramount to success in this position
- Exposure to Microsoft Excel, Bibliography software (EndNote, RefWorks), PubMed/Lexis Nexis is preferable
- Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Biology, Bioengineering, or other related scientific fields
- Current certification in BLS required and must be maintained in a current status throughout the life of this contract
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills impeccable organizational skills
- Bachelor's Degree required, with 0-1 years of related experience preferred
Research Program Coordinator Job Description
- Maintain familiarity with current issues in global policy
- Participates in the primary analysis of evaluation datasets
- The position includes systematic social observation of communities throughout Baltimore
- The position includes ethnographic observation of public events within the study’s catchment area
- Act as primary contact for study participants, which may include scheduling, confirming appointments, and escorting/directing to various locations on/off campus
- Monitor the administration of existing research-based assessments by staff, including the preparation of a monthly report to detect administration gaps and errors
- Re-train staff as needed
- Help with installation and maintenance of electronic equipment to include
- Develop, manage and utilize databases and computer programs to identify patients' research status, including needed consents and research-based assessments and communicate this information to clinical and research staff
- Work in conjunction with the Senior Research Program Coordinator to coordinate between clinical and research staff to design and update protocols for administering research-based assessments that correspond to clinical workflows
- Minimum of three years of experience (5 years if no Master's degree) in data management and study coordination in healthcare or basic research
- The ideal candidate would be detail oriented and comfortable managing a diverse set of tasks
- No previous full time employment experience is required
- An ideal candidate would be comfortable interacting with individuals from diverse racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds
- Demonstrated knowledge of federal and non-federal agency requirements and regulations for sponsored research grants
- Strong knowledge of policies and procedures relating to accounting, budgeting, bookkeeping, reconciliation, auditing, purchasing, disbursements, and other fiscal matters