Clinical Research Coordinator

Alianza Socios de Salud; San Juan (PR); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Alianza Health Partners seeks a Clinical Research Coordinator to drive multi-site studies in Puerto Rico, ensuring regulatory compliance and a positive participant experience.

You will support enrollment, scheduling, retention, and documentation while collaborating with physicians, sponsors, and CRO partners in a bilingual environment. This role is San Juan-based with travel across Puerto Rico.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a relevant health field.
• Minimum 5 years of clinical research coordination experience.
• Strong knowledge of FDA/ICH-GCP and research compliance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage start-up, enrollment, monitoring, and closeout of studies.
• Ensure compliance with FDA/ICH-GCP, HIPAA, IRB, and sponsor requirements.
• Collaborate with physicians, site staff, sponsors, and CROs for study execution.
• Maintain regulatory binders, informed consent, and source documents.
• Support recruitment, scheduling, education, and participant retention.
• Conduct site visits and provide operational support across Puerto Rico.
• Monitor timelines, budgets, and reporting to meet milestones.
• Assist with audits, sponsor visits, and QA initiatives.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Project management

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

EMR/EHR systems

EDC systems

Regulatory documentation tools

Job description

Coordinate clinical research studies across Alianza's expanding CRO operations in Puerto Rico, ensuring compliance, sponsor success, and a strong participant experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage all phases of clinical research studies, including study start-up, patient enrollment, monitoring visits, and closeout activities
• Ensure compliance with FDA, ICH-GCP, HIPAA, IRB, and sponsor requirements across all assigned studies
• Collaborate with physicians, site staff, sponsors, and CRO partners to support successful study execution and participant engagement
• Maintain accurate study documentation, regulatory binders, informed consent records, and source documentation
• Support patient recruitment, scheduling, education, and retention efforts while ensuring positive participant experience
• Conduct site visits and provide operational support across Alianza clinics and affiliated partner locations throughout Puerto Rico
• Monitor study timelines, budgets, and reporting requirements to ensure milestones are achieved efficiently
• Assist with audits, sponsor monitoring visits, and internal quality assurance initiatives

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Life Sciences, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, or related field
• Minimum 5 years clinical research coordination experience in healthcare, hospital, physician practice, or CRO environment
• Strong knowledge of clinical trial regulations, ICH-GCP guidelines, and research compliance standards
• Experience with multi-site studies, regulatory submissions, and sponsor communications
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish (written and verbal)
• Ability to travel up to 30% across Puerto Rico
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and project management skills
• Electronic data capture systems, EMR/EHR platforms, and research documentation systems experience (preferred)

Make a Measurable Difference Every Day

As a Clinical Research Coordinator at Alianza Health Partners, you are the operational backbone of studies that bring novel therapies and medical innovation directly to patients across Puerto Rico. Your work translates regulatory rigor into real participant experiences—the screening call that explains a trial in a patient’s preferred language, the consent conversation that respects their autonomy, and the meticulous documentation that gives sponsors confidence in the data we generate together.

Your Role in the Alianza Model

Alianza’s Clinical Research Organization sits inside a bilingual, technology-enabled primary care network—an unusually integrated environment for research. You will work alongside physicians who already know the participants, supported by EMR/EHR data and a centralized coordination team. Studies move faster here because the infrastructure for recruitment, scheduling, and follow-up already exists. What you bring is the GCP discipline, sponsor-facing professionalism, and on-the-ground coordination that turn that infrastructure into successfully executed trials.

This role is San Juan-based with approximately 30% travel across Puerto Rico, supporting Alianza clinics and affiliated partner sites. You will become deeply familiar with the operational rhythm of multi-site research on the island and play a direct role in expanding which communities have access to clinical trials.

Grow With Us

Alianza is investing aggressively in clinical research as a pillar of its value-based care model. Coordinators who demonstrate strong performance have pathways into lead coordinator roles, regulatory affairs, and research operations leadership as our CRO footprint expands across the Americas. We support continuing education, certification (CCRC, CCRP), and professional development for our research team.