Senior Clinical Research Coordinator

Summary

The VCU Department of Family Medicine and Population Health's research team is recruiting for a full- time Senior Clinical Research Coordinator for the ACORN practice-based research network. The Senior Research Coordinator will be responsible for supervising staff, leading timeliness and success of all network studies; and adherence to all regulatory requirements. The Senior Clinical Research Coordinator will serve as the primary senior clinical research coordinator of the practice-based research network's most high profile projects.

Typical Duties

Areas of responsibility for the Senior Clinical Research Coordinator would include but are not limited to the following:

• Assist PI with complex projects

• Lead training and coaching of less experienced staff

• Coordinate efforts across projects

• Maintain project timelines and organization

• Ensure studies meet recruitment goals

• Support PIs in their efforts to apply for funding, carry out studies, and publish and present results

• Manage summer student research experience

• Participate or lead in presentations at national conferences and publications

• Maintain advanced understanding of clinical research management duties from study initiation to close-out

• Maintain current CITI credentials for Human Subjects Protections, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Clinical Research Coordinator, plus additional sponsor GCP certifications as required

• Understand and adhere to all IRB requirements, Human Subjects protection regulations, and all aspects of IRB approved protocols

Areas of responsibility for the project-specific Lead Research Coordinator would include but are not limited to the following:

• Regularly coordinate and lead core study team meetings with PIs and full interdisciplinary research team members in Richmond (in person or virtually) to discuss project progress

• Prepare and maintain IRB and regulatory documentation

• Recruit study participants, ensuring equitable and inclusive recruitment

• Tailor the intervention to local study sites

• Coordinate with other research sites and with funding agencies to maintain study fidelity and collaboratively adapt study designs

• Collect qualitative and quantitative practice data such as electronic health record data, chart reviews, field notes, and informant interviews

• Assist participating health systems and practices with chart reviews and patient surveys

• Schedule logistics and manage practice and study team email correspondence

• Provide participants with routine feedback and project reports

• Coach, empower, and support practice team members with fielding the study

• Maintain the regulatory documentation to distribute study drugs in community practices