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Posted: 02-Mar-25
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Internal Number: 146486593
The Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) will be part of a multidisciplinary, centralized research team within the Department of Pediatrics. The CRC will work with a variety of therapeutic areas on different types of clinical research including therapeutic clinical trials (drugs, biologics, and devices), biospecimen collection studies, and data registries. The CRC contributes to the overall operational management of clinical research/trial/study activities from study activation, conduct, through closeout. The position has responsibility for the implementation of research activities for one or more studies. The CRC recognizes and performs necessary tasks to manage projects and prioritizes work to meet necessary deadlines. The CRC is responsible for planning and organizing necessary tasks to ensure adherence to the study protocol and applicable regulations, such as institutional policy and procedures, FDA Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP). The CRC collaborates with the Principal Investigator (PI), ancillary departments, central research infrastructure teams, sponsors, institutions, and other entities as needed to support the administration of all aspects of studies. This position is primarily based at UCLA’s Westwood campus. Travel to other UCLA medical facilities may be required.
Pay Range: $33.63 - $54.11 Hourly
- Bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of previous study coordination or clinical research coordination experience
- Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators, and administration and to work as a member of a team.
- Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet the programmatic and department needs, while complying with applicable University policies and federal and state regulations.
- Analytical skills to assess clinical research protocols and regulatory requirements, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
- Close attention to detail to ensure accuracy in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.
- Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and regulatory files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
- Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.
- A learning and professional growth mentality so that new software tools, systems, and processes can be adopted quickly and efficiently.
- Working knowledge of clinical research concepts, policies and procedures, and human safety protection regulations and laws.
- Ability to adapt to changing job demands and priorities, remain flexible including working flexible hours to accommodate research deadlines.
- Availability to work in more than one environment, travelling to various clinic sites, meetings, conferences, etc.
Preferred:
- Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of local and external IRBs, scientific review and other research committees, national cooperative group sponsors, industry sponsors, federal and foundation funding organizations, etc.
